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The current context in which we live is one in which notions of emergency and crises, whether related to climate change, global pandemic, or the major questioning of values at a planetary scale, encourages us to pay more attention to ecological systems. Thinking in ecological terms can facilitate a re-alignement of our thoughts and actions at a scale where these phenomena are observed : the planet as a whole, oceans, air, land… The scale at which our daily lives unfold is being less and less explored, or else reduced to quantitative measures used to feed political and economic logic, reasoning, or agenda.
Would it be worth considering that the human scale also matters when ‘thinking ecologically’ ? Our hope is that doing so would invite us to take account of qualitative considerations, not only quantitative ones, and to seek wholistic comprehension rather than to be driven by anxiety. Therefore, the challenge of this meeting is the re-scaling of our thoughts at the human scale in order to ‘think ecologically’.
The current situation of stress that has emerged from the world health crisis has led to strict social distancing and this is questioning entirely all the notions of social distances that had so far been discussed since E.T. Hall. ‘Mediatised sociability’, a technological curiosity highly valued by online game players, is becoming a new standard practice, at work, in leisures, and as a means to relate to others. In order to protect onself, everything now seems to revolve, above all, around the human scale.
The human scale therefore needs to be explored with the same precision as all the themes that relate to the lived environment.
Let’s set a challenge and explore the human scale as the fundamental unit from which more global impacts ultimately affect the whole planet. Indeed, it is in the home that thematics such as comfort, economics, rational thinking and our perception of space all merge into one terrain for exploration and expression which later will help make sense of all encompassing scales. It is also in the home that all the problematics of sensitive space, of ‘in-situ perception’, of actions undertaken by the inhabitant,… amplify into an urban and even planetary scale. It is in his/her home that the inhabitant is fully ‘acting’ and responsible. His/her transformative action in a familiar milieu becomes the most visible and sensitive manifestation of his/her being because of its immediate nature. Other higher levels within the ecosystem, until the anthropocene, present an inertia which slows down, and sometimes even disturb, our perception of changes – which nevertheless originate at the human scale.
We need to (re-) think about how to improve our habitat, our relationship to our immediate surroundings, and ask ourselves how one could re-explore the built environmnent, which today isolates us, and examine how it could instead be used as a bridge towards our urban and natural environment.
To what extent are the architectural characteristics of the individual dwelling both related to the construction of our own identity and to the potential destruction of the planet ?
Topics
- Theoretical framework
- Building Issues
- Inhabitant experiences
- Design and creative solutions
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