Against Soil-Less Life - Wonderground
Embraced by countries with little to no arable land (like the Netherlands and Singapore) or by those with harsher environments (such as Qatar or Iceland), they are presented as a solution to food insecurity. At a time of global distress, repetitive droughts, rising sea levels, wars and diseases, industrial greenhouses promise never-ending physical ... See more
d-o-t-s • Against Soil-Less Life - Wonderground
There is a lot of promise wrapped into a single technology. What if power goes out or our ability to sustain them stops?
Ground-breaking with their transparent architectures, they disorientated even the most travelled explorers thanks to their ability to mimic the atmospheres of faraway lands for the pleasure of the elites. The illusion made people’s heads spin,
d-o-t-s • Against Soil-Less Life - Wonderground
Greenhouse technology was just as crazy as a self driving car is today.
Where food begins was the slogan of the campaign World Soil Day 2022
d-o-t-s • Against Soil-Less Life - Wonderground
In his book, Quand les plantes n’en font qu’à leur tête (literally, When plants do as they please ), anthropologist Dusan Kasic explains that the term production “places humans ‘above ground’, on a pedestal and ‘outside of the world’, which has the consequence [...] of reinforcing human exceptionalism.” The notion of production, he argues, “disenga... See more
d-o-t-s • Against Soil-Less Life - Wonderground
So much here in terms of the bible quote “Dust to dust” and how we are animated beings in the world. If we hold ourselves above it and not as stewards of it, we run the risk of losing our natural order and humanity. In short, greenhouses are good in moderation (like most things), but perhaps more education on soil is needed.
the currently endorsed productivist approaches leave no space for disturbances and the possibility for us to react and adapt. Nor do they allow mutations and collaborations between living communities to take place.
d-o-t-s • Against Soil-Less Life - Wonderground
This mimics our digital approach to siloed tools and their efficiency at the expense of crozz breeding and natural developments.
Architecturally speaking, the term ‘greenhouse’ refers to buildings designed to optimally protect, cultivate and multiply plants under conditions that artificially reproduce their environments of origin.
Against Soil-Less Life - Wonderground
industrial greenhouses are increasingly participating in the definition of futures in which we, humans, are completely cut off from the rhythms and the elements of so-called Nature.
d-o-t-s • Against Soil-Less Life - Wonderground
Defying natural law has consequences, even if we are able to do so.