Humans need to stop seeing themselves as separate from nature and adopt a new vocabulary for creative endeavours if we are to survive, argues Superflux in its manifesto for the Dezeen 15 digital festival.
"Our actions have caused disastrous imbalances," write Superflux cofounders Anab Jain and Jon Ardern. "We believe that humankind needs to think beyond itself."
The duo proposes a change of terminology to reframe creative processes to make them less destructive and exploitative. "Fixing" should be replaced by "caring" for example, while "planning" would be scrapped in favour of "gardening".
The Dezeen 15 festival features 15 manifestos presenting ideas that could change the world over the next 15 years. All contributors will also take part in a live video interview. See the line-up of contributors here.
We are more than human. We know where we are.
Our actions have caused disastrous imbalances. The Earth?s climate system is in peril: animal populations destroyed, soil degraded. People alive today will witness the extinction of thousands, if not millions, of species.
But this isn't just an abstract tragedy happening to other lifeforms. Our fates, it turns out, are more interwoven than our predecessors knew. Without our kin ? butterflies, birds, bees, lichen ? humanity can not survive on earth.
That?s why we?re calling time on human exceptionalism. It?s not working for the planet. It?s not working for humanity. W...