Speaker: Alban Mannisi
Date: 06/05/2025
Time: 12:30
Place: FFB-05
Title: GAIA ALTERNATIVE REALITIES: symbiocene/ systole/ diastole
Abstract:
Despite the upheavals of the XXth Environmental Humanities having renewed approaches to Gaia biospheres, the plasticity of our predatory ontologies and ethics should lead us to more radicalities in our prospectives. The economics of ecological crises nurtured by speculative anthropotechnics leave serious doubts about the alternatives or progress made by conscious ecology’s experts.
Epistemological anarchism and regenerative indigenous engineering, if they appear as innovative and redeeming solutions, must abandon noxious consensuses with self-serving political ecologies. By speculating alternative realities, neoliberal ecologies are exploiting disoriented communities with novel environmental burdens. Switching between vile resource exploitation and guilt-washing retreat, this amaranthine systole diastole might seem fatalistic if one did not know that countless cultures have never been involved with any.
These are the customs and ethics that we tirelessly relay so that their absence within environmental pedagogies does not completely enshroud them. Those timeless Symbiocene whose only fault is to be responsible within their sovereign regions, committing themselves to neither destroying nor offending anyone for the benefit of a few. Engaged in various parts of the world to acknowledge their rejuvenation, we will explore some of their genuine Landscape Political Philosophy.
Bio:
Alban Mannisi is a Landscape Urbanist, director of SCAPETHICAL, Built Environment Practice & Research Platform and Custodian Heuristics, Institute of Applied environmental Ethics. His recent projects and inquiries decipher the globalisation of sustainable narrative and the foundation of localised citizen resistance to translate intangible landscape components in environmental design. Intrigued by how connected histories and hybrid cultures model our scape, alban has lived, practiced, or taught in France, Korea, Singapore, England, Thailand, Japan and Australia, involving him in a variety of projects among multiples countries. He is regularly internationally invited to explore the emergence of new hybridizations of knowledge and to exhibit his work in built environment biennales. Academic, Doctor in Spatial Planning and Urbanism, from Tokyo Institute of Technology, he taught at National University of Singapore, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology_Australia, Hanyang University_Korea and Naresuan University, Thailand. He is currently Associate at the School of Design and the Built Environment_CURTIN University in Perth; Architecture and Urban Design_Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia and Architecture, Milieu, Landscape Laboratory of Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris.