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Nature changes along with us

We debate saving nature, we dream about escaping to nature, but rarely do we ask “What is nature?”. In an era when the influence of humanity is impossible to escape, our established notion of nature must be reconsidered. We must no longer see ourselves as the anti-natural species that merely threatens and eliminates nature, but rather as catalysts of evolution. With our urge to design our environment, we cause the rising of a next nature that is wild and unpredictable as ever.

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Our technological environment has become so complex, omnipresent and uncontrollable: a Nature of its own
‘We rarely allow ourselves any tender reverential, nurturing attitude towards technology’
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Next Nature Introduction

Bruce Sterling

This project - the Next Nature Network - is about Nature's brand image. One might surmise that "Nature," being 100 …

What is Next Nature?

Where technology and nature are traditionally seen as opposed, they now appear to merge or even trade places. Koert Van Mensvoort lectures on our changing notion of Nature.

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Bas Haring

Intentionality separates culture from nature. A dog is intentional, a fox is not; a park is intentional, a forest is …

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Why are carrots orange? It is political

Van Mensvoort

No, the image above does not show some collection of freshly genetically designed hypercarrots in various colors of the …