ٱلْخَالِي Rubʿ al-Khālī FILLING ONE’S OWN VOID

Twenty-first-century post-cities rely on best practices inherited from declining Western governance models, originally encoded through early artificial intelligence–driven planning. This comes alongside a wealth of exogenous knowledge appropriated from indigenous humanities and engineering, that are now being re-indoctrinated to vulnerable native populations. Ecopiracy, parachute science encompassed by the neoliberal ecology of Sustainable Development over the past decades have accelerated these misdeeds which new subaltern advocates are now questioning vigorously.

These dynamics of decolonization of environmental ethics and revitalization of genuine customs and practices require constant support due to the ecosophical alternative realities fog produced by corporate built environment narratives. In contact with these subaltern movements in various parts of the world, we will showcase some of their accomplishments and the natural intelligence of their design philosophies, which have shaped cultural landscapes worldwide from the distant past to the present day.

We will also attempt to understand why built environmental experts constantly, and increasingly, ignore the just, ethical and equitable naturogenic management systems established by sovereign people worldwide. Instead, pursuing techno-engineering, which lead to our current ecological and ontological crises. Through a critical examination of mainstream communication design in the Global North, the final survival apparatus of a moribund ecosophy, we will explore the cognitive pluriverses that constitute Gaia’s richness.