Eccentric Engineering
As territories flood and melt, dehydrate and erode, paradigms of environmental protection and conservation give way to those of management, engineering and strategic intervention. In this sense, as landscape architects Bradley Cantrell, Laura Martin and Erle Ellis argue, conserving wilderness has become more about maintaining autonomous ecological processes rather than the preservation of historic conditions. If new “wilderness” is the absence of explicit human intervention, what would it mean to have autonomous computational systems sustain wild places? Concept and spatial design by Tega Brain. Networking by Andy Cavatorta. Software development by Sam Lavigne. Asunder realizes an AI driven planetary manager that generates proposals for future alternations to Earth’s surface. It uses a state-of-the-art climate model to analyze each proposal by simulating its effects into the future. The work explores how geoengineering risks combining the hubris of Silicon Valley with the unaccountabil
As territories flood and melt, dehydrate and erode, paradigms of environmental protection and conservation give way to those of management, engineering and strategic intervention. In this sense, as landscape architects Bradley Cantrell, Laura Martin and Erle Ellis argue, conserving wilderness has become more about maintaining autonomous ecological processes rather than the preservation of historic conditions. If new “wilderness” is the absence of explicit human intervention, what would it mean to have autonomous computational systems sustain wild places? Concept and spatial design by Tega Brai
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