horizontes rosados arquitecturas vivientes de una nube toxica

CARLOS A. SEGURA

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Horizontes rosados. Arquitecturas vivientes de una nube tóxica
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2021
Editing
Escalas temporales y espaciales de una ecología resiliente. Entrevista a Rosa Whiteley
Interview (Chapter); translation
w/ Rosa Whiteley

This book develops an understanding of how a molecule or a small entity can represent a much larger environmental situation, how a fungus can symbolize the idea of a resilient ecology, and how a particle of toxic aerosol can represent a type of politics and consumer economy. It especially focuses on how interactions at minute scales can introduce enough negative feedback loops to ultimately dismantle extractive financial systems. [Translated from excerpt] See more↗

Horizontes rosados features –as an epilogue– an interview between Carlos Segura and Rosa Whiteley that examines the entanglements between atmospheric contamination, global politics, and architectural practice from a multiscalar, non-anthropocentric perspective. Whiteley reflects on how state and corporate actors shape toxic environments less through explicit policy than through material economies –particularly metal extraction and smelting– whose effects exceed the temporal and territorial frameworks of climate governance. Rejecting dichotomies such as nature/culture and state/corporation, the conversation foregrounds atmospheres, bodies, and nonhuman agents as sites of action and resistance. It proposes an architectural practice capable of moving between microscopic and planetary scales, engaging metabolism, toxicity, and multispecies ecologies without projecting totalizing models of environmental control.

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