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In using the term ecologies we are interested not in a single set of
relationships between different material flows but in the wider connections
between individuals, society, technology and nature that include all human
and non-human actors. The idea of industrious ecologies is fundamentally
connected with an idea of a knowledge based economy, occupying the gaps
between academia, design studio, research laboratory and consumers. It
focuses on a knowledge produced in-between, in a process of translation
from one economical entity to another. This conference will also seek a
further understanding of the concept of a circular economy as a
"'functional service' model in which manufacturers or retailers
increasingly retain the ownership of their products and, where possible,
act as service providers--selling the use of products, not their one-way
consumption" (The Ellen MacArthur Foundation). An industrious ecology could
become a 'machine of inclusivity' constructing urban subjectivity that
cannot afford to 'waste' its citizens or their environment. The concept of
industrious ecologies is also a tool to stimulate urban synergies in any
field: social, cultural, economic and political; and to build a city as a
political, democratic and egalitarian subject.
We welcome papers seeing re-industrialisation and urban synergies as a path
leading to a better, more just and equal but also economically and
environmentally more effective city.
More: https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=210536
Please send your abstract (300 words) till 15th of April 2014 to
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