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3 - On Organic Habitat
Patricio P. Pouchulu is an organic architect whose projects acknowledge new Habitat paradigms. Since 1999 he's been researching, analysing and promoting what he defined as Habitat Change. a pioneering approach to the changing architectural environment. Not to be confused with the so-called "Climate Change" or "Global Warming" theory: it is not possible to meassure Earth's surface average temperature, because it is a dynamic organism that changes millisecond to millisecond, and if it would, we will never be able to reach a conclusive scientific prove of man-made effects: to do so, we should observe the event many times and for millenia, which is not possible. Habitat Change has to do with our relation with Nature. Following Frank Lloyd Wright's legacy, our Organic thinking acknowledges Homo Sapiens has created a crisis, evidenced in Habitat loss, that might lead our species to extinction. We promote educational programmes. We make people aware. You can find abstracts of the Book of Habitat Change, here.
What's happening?We produced 10.000 years of constant deforestation and 200 years of intensive pollution. Industries and human habits must change direction. The non-linear solar cycles of warming and hibernation explain and frame climate events, but pollution on land and oceans is producing Habitat loss with severe consequences. Unsustainable construction and waste of energy in mobility, and extinction of agricultural chain linked species, like bees. How do humans react? With frantic consumerism.
What can you do?
Get informed... listen to the other side of the news: quite often, independent, solitary writers hold a deeper notion of what is happening. Avoid mainstream sources, do not trust fast conclusions. Daily headlines are like someone shouting and repeating slogans. Escape from easy, sensasionalist and corporative news. Take your time. Try to reason.
We must avoid plastic products, and start to consider the logic of passive energy sources, economical structures, local materials and new ways of transportation. We doubt most of the new technical 'solutions': the majority of them are unsustainble and are more contaminants compared with wood, leather, wool or cotton. Virtual reality is (basically) entertaining us, while deactivating children's writing and interpreting capabilities. We got trapped in mimic information. Habitat has a fragile 'psyche'. Our presence as invasive species is over-populating and over-exploiting the planet. Economic and political paradigms are changing.
What's next?
Plant trees. Billions of them. We have to master how to optimise resources in order to re-inhabit our cities (no more large cars), learning how to live with different mobility patterns: extensive use of bikes, small units similar to "bump-cars", mono-vehicles, trams. For inter-cicy services we need trains (a formation of five carriages and one locomotive is 50 times less contaminant compared with 1.000 cars); a new generation of large sailing cargo ships can solve inter-oceanic trade. No problem with planes, we love to fly. We should accept that current consumerist habits are not longer valid. Advertising is the main cause of Habitat collapse, it starts a Domino effect: inducing desire, compulsory buying of plastic items, ditching, polluting. Full stop.
I propose new Broadcities that will exploit sustainable forests, agriculture and small "clean" industries. Technology and resources will be used to monitor and sustain life form systems.
Interdisciplinary work
Our work is based on three decades of interdisciplinary thinking and practice. Basic information can be accessed here.
Contact here: instituto@pouchulu.com
Banner photo: Earth from Apollo 11, July 1969, image AS11-36-5295, courtesy of NASA; Inserted photo: Baobab, Senegal, Afrique Occidental Francaise, timbre c.1954, from Pouchulu's stamp collection.