From Nature to the Built Environment

Climax Change!, Energy and sustainability, expanding design practices, No Density, Pedro Gadanho, Steven Vogel, Talk.

Architecture & Nature, Architecture&environment, Built environment, Climate change, Climax Change, Cultural agitator, Decision makers, Philosophy, Responsive Design, talk, Theory, Transformation, Urban process.

This conversation is part of the Climax Change! Series, curated and hosted by Pedro Gadanho, in the context of his book Climax Change! How architecture must transform in the age of ecological emergency, published by Actar Publishers.

Steven Vogel is a philosopher, a professor at Denison University, and the author of the book Thinking like a Mall. In this video he discusses an alternative take on our concept of nature and what it encompasses. He talks about our role as agents against climate change and the need to change the view that the decision-making processes are limited to a few. He calls for a recognition of the ways in which humans transform the environment, claiming that there is a need to take responsibility in order to prevent a world in which we can’t live in.