Ruinophilia: Svetlana Boym
Basic definition for Ruinophilia.
What is: a fascination for ruins that reminds us of "potential futures rather than imaginary pasts"?
Idea that technological determinists have.
What is: that earth is to be mastered or managed?
Issue with 3D Warehouse.
What is: an online open-source digital library for 3D models that accumulates media waste?
Definition of Umwelt.
What is: using perception/understanding in order to interact with the physical/tangible/action world?
Siena's favorite dinosaur.
What is: Compsognathus?
Reason ruins embody both humanity's anxieties and hopes.
What is: because they make us reflect on past mistakes but also show us potential "utopian" futures?
The difference between Purdy's and modern scientists/anthropologist's definition of ANTHROPOCENE.
What is: "indispensable cultural shift in our understanding of the idea of the environment" (Purdy) VERSUS new period in Earth's history due to the profound human impacts on the planet?
I.e. the environment had to be invented before it could be saved.
Commonality between Henderson Island and digital models in 3D Warehouse.
What is: the dilema of humanity's habit of collecting and trashing?
Alonso's difference between "the globe" and "the planet."
What is: the globe as our home of ever-globalizing cultures/economies COMPARED TO the planet which is a 4.54 billion year old cosmic entity?
Giovanni Piranesi's "middle name."
What is: Battista?
How nature and humans collaborate within ruins.
What is: nature using ruins to grow/express itself as it had previously been used by humans to express our nature?
"Nature has transformed the work of art into material for her own expression as she had previously served as material for art."
Overarching argument of Architecture as Measure.
That climate change needs to be conceptualized by the general public in a cultural and political way (instead of statistical) so discourses on architecture can finally take shape/be understood by all global stakeholders?
Media Archeology.
What is: a kind of reverse engineering to determine the origin and conception of lost/trashed media by humans or other digital forms?
Examples of deep vs shallow timescales.
What is: deep timescale as planetary Umwelt AND shallow timescale as human/bacteria/etc Umwelt?
Man who was disappointed when he first saw the Roman ruins.
Who is: Geothe?
How ruins can be used to teach us important lessons relating to history and intersectionality.
What is: learning from the past to avoid mistakes that led to societal downfalls because of their tolerance towards injustices?
Comparison of "world-for-us" vs "world-in-itself."
What is: humans interpret and give meaning to the world (world-for-us) COMPARED TO the planet being in an already-given state that relies on our naturalist predispositions (world-in-itself)?
New Cadavre Exquis's goal.
What is: questioning architecture's relationship between assembly, ruination, and waste?
The way that architecture interacts within other geological paradigms.
What is: how geological, technological, human, animal, and viral bodies coproduce environment/architecture?
The complete freedom that Piranesi argued for.
What is: the ability for an architect or design to reference models from every time and place as an inspiration for their new machinations?
The potential meaning behind the first sentence's phrase - "postmodern quotation marks" HINT: it's a specific reading from Chapter 2 (Carbon Heritage).
What is: "THE SAFE HANDBOOK OF ARCHITECTURAL THEORY, HERITAGE"?
References people and precedents (Le Corbusier, Bruno Taut, Ferreyra Palace, etc.) in relation to heritage and ruins.
Rob Nixon's idea of "slow violence" in relation to climate change.
What is: shifting baseline?
The relationship between all the "Reassembly-as-____" digital constructions.
What is: application of different timescales across materiality using human digital trash as a medium?
Ways architecture can address intersectionality issues.
What is: by taking responsibility for deep and shallow timescales and how they interact?
Example of the connection between "Another Planetary" AND "Timescales of Builtsphere relating to differing timescales."
What is: Plastic straw as quotidian/shallow timescale and planetary/deep time scale?