An Imaginative Guide: On How One Could Live In An Ecological Paradise
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“..........The design strategy, this world of ecological pleasure would be adopting in designing the future place is not one of building architecture but one of growing architecture.
Building architecture, which creates a more controlled environment could be called as an architectural product. However, architecture of growing could be a process which could be open, temporal, mobile and adaptable and which would always bring new life to a process. Most of all, architecture of growing is creating a more semi-controlled environment unlike architecture of building. The growing that I am referring to is a transformation of the place over time, that is not merely a transformation by people occupying the place and therefore changing it or just merely a place getting overgrown or weathered. The future place may work more like nature. For example lavender fields designed as boats to harness the future flooding 62 may provide essential oil for the bathing. The lavender scent could be used for textile. Sun - dried lavender flowers may be used for tea as a beverage. The lavender essential oil fields could mix with salt fields and transform to become scented mineral bathing places.(see Chapter Two)
When there is a natural event like a heavy tidal change due to heavy rain, the clusters may dissipate. I mean does not destroy and cause harm to the people. The boats may scatter within this local place and may meet new clusters that generate new sensations in this fragrance, soft, tender and delicate future place which has delicious tastes. For example the salt fields that may have been near lavender augustifolia boats would experience an aroma, that may be different to the aroma of lavender augustifolia when the lavender augustifolia boats floats and meet a different type of lavender.........”
“ The future place will have a weaved architecture: the designer may design the future paradise and the community may make and connect the natural systems in this wonderland. This is another reason why the future place will be growing. The future place may harness the natural forces: sun, wind, tide and flooding and may create a semi - controlled environment and a more natural environment. This is the other reason why the future paradise may be called growing.
As this imaginative future place where we are going to live may have connected natural systems which may be in production.
This wonderful place may also be called an ecological cluster in production. As there may be sensory connections, the future place may adopt a weaving architecture. A weaving architecture, meaning several processes connecting with one another and creating a sensory future paradise. The whole project deals with the sensory aspect which may seduce the visitor, traveller and reader and may develop a desire.”
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AN IMAGINATIVE GUIDE ON HOW ONE COULD LIVE IN AN ECOLOGICAL PARADISE
This comprehensively researched and originally presented book consists of three parallel narratives and drawings is a carefully guided journey from place to place, from sense to sense, from forms of production to other forms of production, from one innovative idea to another. Drawing is used truly as a research tool: as an illustrative interpretation of existing/previous drawing, a city, an instrumental tool for describing a production process and as a way of thinking and proposing new ideas for living in the future. The author leads us slowly through the journey that starts in France and ends up in Sri Lanka interweaving three narratives – a fairy tale one, academic one and a propositional one. The narratives are carefully positioned in relation to each other both in context and in its graphical content of the page so the reader is forced to go slowly through this journey of fascinating ideas that consider interpretations of previous utopian visions of the city to lavender paper making, scented textile weaving and prawn farming, towards the world of vision once the climate may change the surface of the earth, and sea level rises. It is an optimistic, carefully researched, innovatively presented and highly original piece of work. The work is imaginatively informative and spans young and old audiences, inspires communities interested in ways of ecologically and socially sustainable living. It is the work that took time deliberately and turned speed into slowness and careful thinking with careful drawing and testing. This book is a true pleasure to read and look at.
Dr Ivana Wingham, University of Brighton, UK
About the Author
Having won an International award on Sustainable Construction, Semini helps the reader to understand and guides the reader to imaginatively envision future ecological ways of living. A reader who has gone through the imaginative ways of living in this guide, could further investigate and execute such ecological living methods or be in a position to imagine and predict various kinds of ecological living for the future. She disseminates this knowledge in a very simple, poetic, entertaining manner with three voices narrating the story and supporting and testing the ideas using three type of illustrative narrations so that anybody above 14 years old could experience and envision future ecological possibilities that may happen in a much more soft and friendly way rather than getting bored with graphs and calculations. This is an imaginative guide, guiding others to envision in a similar way or creating a platform triggering others to imagine in their own way on ecological living for the future of all of us.For example how lavender scented textile could be weaved and how this process could create an ecological landscape, instead of making tea using a kettle etc there might be another imaginative way while this tea making process creates an ecological landscape and then honey making process could become a bathing spot which also creates an ecological landscape and many more which could be read and whoever is interested could further research these imaginative ecological processes and execute the above. That is why this book is an imaginative guide, for others who are interested to take the ecological living that is envisioned in this book further.