Sur les paves la ferme (Over the pavement, the farm), is the theme of Work Architecture’s winning proposal for P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center’s 2008 summer courtyard. Reflects the movement from industrialization to postindustrialization, from global to local, from free market to farmer’s market, and from sand to hay.
Alex Steffen eloquently outlines two singularity scenarios and suspects we are at the shearing point on either side of which one looms: the Atmospheric Singulariy (if we fail to tackle our climate crisis) and the Sustainability Singularity (if we do come to grips with our challenges and realize that “small steps” are not even vaguely sufficient.)
If we look for practical information through Google then we don’t need to involve much of our inner world. However, as it often happens, search engines are being used as well for cultural, philosophical, and even existential or spiritual searches.
The Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN will stage a workshop called “Forest Insects as Food: Humans Bite Back.” Among the questions to be addressed: Why douse fields with pesticides if the bugs we kill are more nutritious than the crops they eat.
