The international living Building institute, in partnership with the national Trust for Historic Preservation, invites the world’s most talented and daring designers, planners, artists and animators to create a new global vision: a breathtaking, compelling model for the future of civilization. Unleash the power of your imagination to envision a city capable of thriving through the centuries – one that will heal the land and prove that the human species can in fact live, in the words of E.O. Wilson, as ‘part and parcel with creation’.
We have inherited and reproduced a built environment based on the catastrophically flawed premise of unlimited resources and infinite room for expansion. our infrastructure isolates us from the ecosystems we inhabit; what James Howard kunstler has described as a “Geography of nowhere” blinds us to the specificity of place.
if we are to respond effectively to the environmental crisis we now face, we must begin by radically reimagining our neighborhoods, towns, villages and cities. READ MORE >>
via ilbi.org
