Comments on: Red Earth

By: Eduardo Carvalho

Eduardo Carvalho — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:20:50 +0000

… and you wouldn’t like to come and share your ideas about earth construction to Portugal? We are having an international conference in February 2010 in a city called Coimbra. Deadline for abstracts is June 30th but you already have more than the abstract in the above article. Ronald Rael will probably attend the conference… Here’s the link in case you are interested (the spanish version):

http://www.esgallaecia.com/6atp/site_es.html

By: dlgissen

dlgissen — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:52:07 +0000

Dear Eduardo: Thanks for visiting; and yes, I agree about religious concepts of earth — perhaps the golem would be appropriate here.

By: Eduardo Carvalho

Eduardo Carvalho — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:17:43 +0000

Thank you for sharing this thought (and examples) about earth. Earth as material, as concept, as a body becoming both alive and dead… Earth as thought, if that makes sense (?)

(You could also have mentioned the christian Genesis and other creation or eschatological myths to add another layer to this approach to earth…)

Being an “earth-architect” myself I find upsetting whenever green thinking gets ahead of the critical (and political, of course) perspective about using earth in either a historical and/or technological context such as ours. Precisely because earth is inevitably seen as “poor” and “old” it should “critically” reveal something when used in a contemporary and/or technological context.

But it seldom does.

By: Earth Architecture

Earth Architecture — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:18:11 +0000

Red Earth…

Experimental Historian, friend and colleague, David Gissen, discusses Earth Architecture and makes an argument for red earth. He writes:

“In arguing for a red earth, I’m not arguing that earth holds an innate leftist proletarian politics in its che…