Infrastructure of the Living

The lives of human beings have always been intrinsically linked to those of other living beings: animals and plants. For centuries they have lived together, cooperated and developed new forms of habitat. Today, the imbalance between artificial and natural spaces is leading to a profound change in our spatial framework: livestock are being raised in factory farms, animals for leisure are on the increase, and the number of wild animals is decreasing exponentially as natural spaces disappear.
The seminar proposes to explore a reflection on the design of architectural, urban and landscape projects that generate a new relationship between living beings. It will first define the relationship of living beings - fauna and flora - in relation to the architecture created to domesticate, cultivate, store and breed them, and then analyse the possible design paths of an architecture and a landscape capable of accommodating the different species in a decarbonised, resilient and humane system.