{"id":260,"date":"2011-02-22T20:50:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T03:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/artsci\/?p=260"},"modified":"2011-02-22T20:50:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T03:50:33","slug":"cfs-paradigms-of-nature-post-natural-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/artsci\/blog\/2011\/02\/cfs-paradigms-of-nature-post-natural-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"CFS: PARADIGMS OF NATURE: Post Natural Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS<\/p>\n<p><strong>PARADIGMS OF NATURE: Post Natural Futures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are we steering in an &#8216;un-natural&#8217; direction, or taking the evolutionary leap necessary to establish a more integrated mode of co-existence?<\/p>\n<p>We are entering a period of extreme technological escalation, where we can now synthesise technologies with living systems. It may soon be possible to create self-generating, manufactured landscapes that have the ability to grow, repair, decay and multiply, responding to a multitude of forces<\/p>\n<p>How will the development of these bio-technological possibilities shape the way we create landscapes where the city environment could transform into a dynamic, interactive organism of limitless potential?<\/p>\n<p>In what ways will the urban landscape adapt and change with these neo-natural realities, where it becomes increasingly difficult to draw tangible lines between what we preserve as \u2018natural\u2019 and \u2018artificial\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>But will all this current wild speculation about a future predicting synthetic biological ecologies, trans-natural robotic systems and post-natural organisms ever be realised, and how useful is it in meeting our collective ideals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS PARADIGMS OF NATURE: Post Natural Futures. Are we steering in an &#8216;un-natural&#8217; direction, or taking the evolutionary leap necessary to establish a more integrated mode of co-existence? We are entering a period of extreme technological escalation, where we can now synthesise technologies with living systems. It may soon be possible to create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[561],"tags":[9910,9911,9909],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-related-topics","tag-evolutionary","tag-landscapes","tag-natural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}