RECADRER LA PRATIQUE ET LA THÉORIE DU PROJET
Où le visiteur, examinant les principes de la permaculture – économiser les efforts et l’énergie (utilitas), augmenter la résilience (soliditas) et ménager des mondes (venustas) – se demande si ses promoteurs n’auraient pas développé la théorie du projet la plus consistante depuis Vitruve et Alberti.
REFRAMING THE PRACTICE & THEORY OF DESIGN
In which the mindful reader, reviewing the main concerns of permaculture – sparing efforts and energy (utilitas), increasing resilience (firmitas) and managing worlds (venustas) – is led to wonder whether its proponents might not have evolved the most consistent theory of design since Vitruvius and Alberti, and the fiercest challenge to the alleged rationality at work in the spheres of agriculture, architecture and urbanism today.
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