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There are two approaches to the problem of establishing a Viridian aesthetic: the top-down approach, and the bottom-up. The top-down method consists of issuing historical analogies, broad statements of principle, sweeping aphorisms, and so forth, and trawling these verbal devices over the landscape in the hope that they will net something useful.
The bottom-up approach relies on assembling specific examples, whose aggregate might suggest an emergent future sensibility.
Since we Viridians have an expiration date looming, we will try both approaches at once.
[Subject: Viridian Note 00005: Viridian Aesthetics]
The concept of the “Viridian Involuntary Park” was first broached in Viridian Note 00023. (See also Notes 00128, 00139, 00166, 00185, 00234, 00242, 00269.)
Sign up for eco-tourist jaunts to Chernobyl. http://www.travel-tour.com.ua/eng_tours_2.html
“Eco-technology is where one uses the information that's encoded in natural systems to design and build technologies with the efficiencies and complexities of nature's 3.8 billion years of experimentation.” John Todd
using living systems for industrial tasks http://livingmachines.com/ and http://www.oceanarks.org/
BioMimicry, nature as inspiration and measure design http://biomimicry.net/
up the ante.. “Why Global Warming Would be Good for You” http://www.stanford.edu/~moore/Boon_To_Man.html
Pierre Bernard / Atelier de CrÈation Graphique http://www.aigany.org/ideas/features/bernard.html
social design notes often overlaps http://www.backspace.com/notes/