synthetic ecology

Synthetic Ecology is both a pleonasm and a contradiction. But above all it is a very powerful metaphor. A corollary to Synthetic Biology, it is a theory of transenvironmentalism that refers not only to the practice of producing artificial environments, but to the convergence of ecological strands of thought.

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Salar de Atacama, Chile

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Nature’s Dystopian Nature CharlieDavoli

In the words of the artist Charlie Davoli:

“I made this photo project by producing a series of imaginary pictures in which human beings are distractedly immersed in a reality that is likely to be possible, where the symbols of the modern civilization are inevitably swallowed by the spontaneous vegetation.”

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Lake Brazos labyrinth weir, Waco              

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Jenny Holzer, sticker from the Survival series (1983-85) 

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http://matter.media.mit.edu/environments/details/wanderers-wearables-for-interplanetary-pilgrims

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Virginie Khateeb

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Salar de Atacama is the largest salt flat in Chile and the third largest in the world, spanning 1,200 square miles (3,000 sq. km). It is the world’s largest and purest active source of lithium, containing more than one-quarter of the world’s lithium reserves. In this Overview, lithium-rich waters sit in a series of evaporation ponds before being extracted as lithium carbonate — a key ingredient in specific industrial salts and chemicals, and in the production of lithium metal.

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Source imagery: DigitalGlobe

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Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid, Tokio

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How Does Your Space Garden Grows? - Absolute Knowledge

Astronauts from International Space Station show us how to grow a garden in space. Friday morning, astronauts onboard International Space Station have succeded to show us how plants grow in space, by harvesting three varieties of leafy greens and installing… Continue Reading →

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfOuBx6XW3Q&feature=share

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New Organisms Have Been Formed Using the First Ever 6-Letter Genetic Code

Scientists have engineered the first ever 'semi-synthetic' organisms, by breeding E. coli bacteria with an expanded, six-letter genetic code.

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“The overlap of the mechanical and the lifelike increases year by year. Part of this bionic convergence is a matter of words. The meanings of “mechanical” and “life” are both stretching until all complicated things can be perceived as machines, and all self-sustaining machines can be perceived as alive. Yet beyond semantics, two concrete trends are happening: (1) Human-made things are behaving more lifelike, and (2) Life is becoming more engineered. The apparent veil between the organic and the manufactured has crumpled to reveal that the two really are, and have always been, of one being. What should we call that common soul between the organic communities we know of as organisms and ecologies, and their manufactured counterparts of robots, corporations, economies, and computer circuits? I call those examples, both made and born, “vivisystems” for the lifelikeness each kind of system holds.”

Kevin Kelly (via inthenoosphere)

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via The Vault of the Atomic Space Age