I though you might find this interesting. The whole article can be found at:
http://www.doorsofperception.com/mailinglist/archives/2008/10/tribal_currenci.php
LOW ENTROPY URBANISM
"What would architects design, if they did not design buildings?” My question is not a rhetorical one. The inputs and outputs of industrial society are wildy out of balance - and that includes its buildings and infrastructure. We have reached the end of a brief era in which we could burn cheap fossil fuel, and despoil ecosystems, mindless of the consequences. We need to re-imagine the built world not as a landscape of frozen objects, but as a complex of interacting ecologies: energy, water, mobility, food. Our life-sustaining ecologies, especially, need to be nurtured, not swept away, built over, or diverted. The need for new buildings will be rare. Sometimes the design choice will be to do nothing”.
Do you find this abstract to be tendentious piffle? I’m developing this talk at three events this Autumn, and would welcome your critical participation. University of Brighton, 7 October; Arc en Reve in Bordeaux, 9 October; Megacities conference in Amsterdam, 28 October.
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wow... i read the thing... complementary currencies are a super interesting situation (and very Canadian, apparently).. reminds me of gift economies, which is what you get if you go in the other direction away from our current monetary situation. Reinhold Martin has written on the parallel between Nixon's abolishment of the gold standard and the rise of the ecological movement. Shortly I will post an annotated pdf.
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