Lexicon

Abject
Accretion
Actant
Aeration
Aerobic
Algae-boosted
Animal
Anthropomorphism
Anti-Continuous Construction
Apocalypse
Aquaculture
Aquanaut
Ark
Artificial Intelligence
Autopoiesis
Assemblages
Asymmetry
Atrophy
Attraction
Autarchy
Automata
Automation
Autosymbiosis
Bambassador
Bathyscaphe
Bioconurbation
Biomedia
Bionics
Biosphere
Biotechnique
By-product
Capacity
Actant
Coisolation
Composting
Conservative Surgery
Consumer Envelope
Consumption
Continuous Construction
Conurbation
Correalism
Cultural_Memory
Cybernetics
Cybertecture
Cyborg
Dispositif
Diving Saucer
Dross
Earthship
Ecocatastrophe
Effluvium
Egosphere
End-use
Entanglement
Eutopia
Feedback
Foam
Folk
Gadget
Garbage House
Green Cyborg
Heuristic
Hoard
Holism
Homogenization of Desire
Hostile
Human Affect
Hybridized Folk
Hydroponic
Hyper-Materialism
Information Economy
Inner Space
Interama
Intra-Uterine
Maque
Megalopolis
Min-use
Mobility
Monorail
Multi-Hinge
Non-Design
Oceanaut
Oppositional Consciousness
Organic
Ouroboros
Panarchy
Parasite
Perceived Continuation
Permanence
Place
Prototype
Post-Animal
Reclamation
RI: Data Farms
RI: Garbage and Animals
RI:Shipbreaking
RI: Toxic Sublime
Sampling
Scale
Sensing Structure
Simulacrum
Simulation
Soft Energy
Spaceship Earth
Submersible
Superwindow
Symbiosis
Synthetic Environment
Technocratic
Technological Heredity
Technological Sublime
Telechirics
The Sublime
Thermal Panel
Actant
Thing-Power
Thinking Machines
Tool
Toxic Withdrawal
Turbulence
UV-Transparent Film
Vibrant Matter
Waste
Work

Apocalypse

We do not face the end of ecological catastrophe yet, thus we cannot exactly predict what the scene of apocalypse could be or how we can protect ourselves from the disaster. However, even if we did not encounter the end of ecological catastrophe, we are experiencing the symptom of environmental disruption, nature of climate change, wealth creation, biodiversity loss and disease. There is no longer a hiding place from that and we feel the necessity of precautions.1 Therefore, the fear of apocalypse makes us to create whatever that seems to protect human from end of the world. The initial purpose of the Eden project is also derived from this endeavors which slow down the upcoming ecological catastrophe.2 However, the Eden project seems to become no more than the botanical park for capitalism. The landscape inside the biomes is the ‘stage sets’ that represent real places in the world and they create artificial nature rather than replicate real ‘nature’. It does not alert people to ecological apocalypse, rather create profit from people’s pleasure. Therefore we should develop the sustainable design experiment as not for the showcase which makes more money, but for real experiment for rescuing Earth.

1. Howard Jones, “The Eden Project: A Synopsis around Sustainable Enterprise,” in The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, No. 30, (Summer 2008), pp.136.
2. Ross Adams, “Approaching the End: Eden and the Catastrophe” in Log, No.19, (Spring-Summer 2010), pp.96-97.