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==== Fritz Haeg: Animal Estates ==== | ==== Fritz Haeg: Animal Estates ==== | ||
- | His reading tip: Tending the Wild, by Kat Anderson; early Westerners thought they entered a kind of lazy easygoing landscape, but it was very highly tended, with ritualised | + | ([[lecture notes]] from [[isea2012]]) |
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+ | His reading tip: //Tending the Wild, by Kat Anderson//; early Westerners thought they entered a kind of lazy easygoing landscape, but it was very highly tended, with ritualised | ||
* Fritz proposes the word Nature should be gotten rid off, whenever you need to use it, check why you need it. The fact that we have a word for nature signifies that we make a separation, it signifies a problem. | * Fritz proposes the word Nature should be gotten rid off, whenever you need to use it, check why you need it. The fact that we have a word for nature signifies that we make a separation, it signifies a problem. | ||
- | * These are not commercial or advocacy projects, they just look like them if they need to. At the core humor functions as a release to avoid becoming: we're all screwed - let's party on / if we only do this, we can save the world. | + | * These are not commercial or advocacy projects, they just look like them if they need to. At the core humour |
- | * Our make up as a species is about getting away from preditors | + | * Our make up as a species is about getting away from predators |
* There are some animals we love to live with, but some others we don't, why? This is the starting idea for animal estates. | * There are some animals we love to live with, but some others we don't, why? This is the starting idea for animal estates. | ||
* 50% of wildlife lives in and on dead trees, in cities they are removed right away. | * 50% of wildlife lives in and on dead trees, in cities they are removed right away. | ||
* Our cities are to cleaned up. | * Our cities are to cleaned up. | ||
* Our buildings are to closed up. | * Our buildings are to closed up. | ||
+ | * For his first work on animal estates he researched which animals lived at that spot in New York when it was still a forest, and remade their habitats as we make estates for humans. | ||
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+ | === Selecting Species === | ||
+ | The way he selects animals suited for estates: | ||
+ | * Did it live here? | ||
+ | * Could it live here again? | ||
+ | * Would humans want to live with them? | ||
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