Comment améliorer l’habitabilité de la planète ?

Excerpt from the Europan 17 catalogue of results, read the article from:

Nicolás Martínez Rueda (ES) – architect, founder of the architectural competition for students DOCEXDOCE, www.docexdoce.org

In the era of the Anthropocene, it is ‘suddenly’ critical to maintain the habitability of the planet in front of the ‘global warming’s terrifying new math! The planet is becoming increasingly less capable of ensuring our survival, mainly due to our own fault. We must seek a global rethink of our social metabolism and our way of relating to the environment, at any scale. We might need to chart a course toward decarbonization, but how? Working WITH the symptoms – this is what suggest the winning teams, of Europan 17 competition. Their proposals look behind the curtain of the misery, exploring the sites’ indigenous resources as a remedy to cure the disastrous condition. They provocatively claim a therapeutic coup of resources: the subversive inversion of a site-specific misery into a promising opportunity – and disaster becomes potential!

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Borkum (DE), Winner – Re:duce Re:use Re:new