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| ====groworld HPI: SPECULATIONS ON THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN PLANT INTERACTIONS===== | ====groworld HPI: SPECULATIONS ON THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN PLANT INTERACTIONS===== |
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| by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney, [[FoAM]], Belgium (presented at 'Mutamorphosis' conference, 10th November 2007, Prague, Czech Republic. http://www.mutamorphosis.org/ ) | by Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney, [[FoAM]], Belgium (presented at 'Mutamorphosis' conference, 10th November 2007, Prague, Czech Republic. http://www.mutamorphosis.org/ and revisited in [[groworld HPI ii]]) |
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| “Our present global crisis is more profound than any previous historical crises; hence our solutions must be equally drastic. I propose that we should adopt the plant as the organizational model for life in the 21st century, just as the computer seems to be the dominant mental/social model of the late twentieth century, and the steam engine was the guiding image of the nineteenth century.” (McKenna, 1992) | “Our present global crisis is more profound than any previous historical crises; hence our solutions must be equally drastic. I propose that we should adopt the plant as the organizational model for life in the 21st century, just as the computer seems to be the dominant mental/social model of the late twentieth century, and the steam engine was the guiding image of the nineteenth century.” (McKenna, 1992) |
| If examine today's cultural trends, we can find sporadic weak signals that suggest that the proliferation of 'green' culture, economy and technology will eventually give rise to what Hildegard Von Bingen called 'Viriditas' (Bonn, n.d.), or the green side of mind – a deeper environmental consciousness, that can reconnect our fickle technological (and perhaps technocratic) societies to slower, more persistent geo-ecological scales. | If examine today's cultural trends, we can find sporadic weak signals that suggest that the proliferation of 'green' culture, economy and technology will eventually give rise to what Hildegard Von Bingen called 'Viriditas' (Bonn, n.d.), or the green side of mind – a deeper environmental consciousness, that can reconnect our fickle technological (and perhaps technocratic) societies to slower, more persistent geo-ecological scales. |
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| Aside from 'archaic' ethnobotanical experiments, are there ways to establish a two-way interface between for communication between humans and plants? | Aside from 'archaic' ethnobotanical experiments, are there ways to establish a two-way interface for communication between humans and plants? |
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