
Alban Mannisi, PhD
Online Guest Lecture
Bio-Cultural Horizons
Design Research Studio
RMIT Landscape Architecture
Thank you, Dr. Ata Tara, for the invitation to give a lecture in the RMIT Landscape Architecture discipline the next 9th August 2023.
Servitude VAMPIRE TALES
Built environment experts finally get the measure of our anthropogenic drifts through geo-engineering and computational automation (i.e., AI), having little intention to modify the extractive behaviours. On the other hand, with no intention to demystify such vampire tales, a whole stretch of resilient custodian civilization embedded in holistic environmental diplomacy continues to navigate, out of the tumults of such performative activism, between local wisdoms and adaptative ontology.
We will attempt to decipher the environmental imperialism cog of a neoliberal ecology (i.e., Sustainable Development) based on a Protestant belief in which nature is conceived to serve human needs. Anew celebrated in “Our Common Future” (1987), Western ecological conscious Manifesto disaccredits myriad of timeless beliefs that appear today to be the suitable answers to our multi-scalar crises.
Through the inquiries within various cultural landscape and environmental resistance incentives, we will explore how other political ecology and biospheric applied environmental ethics reemerged following the Anthropocene disarray and remain mobile in our shattered mobility.
