In the final manifesto of the Dezeen 15 digital festival, architect and designer Neri Oxman suggests that design can heal the rift between nature and humanity.
In her manifesto called NATURE X HUMANITY, Oxman proposes a new type of design that replenishes nature rather than exploiting it.
"In a world where human-made materials are biocompatible, designed products are indistinguishable from naturally grown produce," she writes.
Using "programmed decomposition," materials can rejoin the ecosystem, where they can fuel new growth. "This, in turn, empowers ecosystem resource cycles rather than depleting them," she says.
"By placing a multiplicity in the form of an 'X' between NATURE and HUMANITY, we call for a radical realignment between grown and built environments, with the hope and conviction that humanity has the power not only to restore, recover, and replenish the natural world but to empower it."
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Oxman's manifesto is complemented by a film by the same name, NATURE X HUMANITY.
"The documentary debuts at a critical juncture when the anthropomass?the mass produced by humans?has exceeded that of the living biomass on our planet," Oxman said.
"Through the lens of five projects and their related material systems, we propose five tenets for a new Material Ecolog...