Inventor biomimicry – Jay Harman
Brian Swimme PhD Cosmologist – “There’s not been this kind of destruction on the planet since the time of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago”.
Progress has its price.
Duane Elgin, MA Social Scientist, NASA Consultant – “Over thousands of years we’ve been progressively empowering ourselves becoming more differentiated, more identified as unique human beings but in the process, step by step pulling back from the natural world”.
Dayna Baumeister, PhD Co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8 – “The only way we’ll ever make it as a species on this planet is if we reconnect with nature”.
Earth is here for us to use. We’ve now come to an end of that track and it’s no longer serving us. And we see, instead of dominion, we’re really participants in the natural world. And that’s coming more into alignment with some of the Eastern tradition as well as some of the indigenous traditions in spirituality.
Gaia – scientific hypothesis from the 70s named after a Greek goddess: getting away from the idea of nature as machinery and looking into the Earth as a single living system.
If we compared the 3,8 billion years of Earth as 1 year. Homo Sapiens just appeared at 11.30am on the 31st of December and the Industry revolution have lasted just 1 second.
Maybe this new deep understanding required our disconnection from nature. Maybe to reach this full understanding we had to go through this period of disconnection.
The biological revolution. The entire Industrial Revolution was ultimately about taking. Taking materials, taking soil, taking oil, taking water. There’s a limit on how much you can take. By redefining our relation, it isn’t Nature is there for us but we ultimately are part of the natural world. Our lives depend on t. And if we can quiet our cleverness and we can instead borrow the recipe instead of taking the raw materials, then we’ve entered the biological revolution.
Because nature heals, the environmental movement is a social cause movement.
In the same lines as the “Doing what comes naturally” documentary, “Love Thy Nature” talks about the idea of a crisis as an inflection point to change dominion for partnership and reconnection with the natural world.
Something that really had an impact on me after watching this documentary is the comparison of the age of the planet to one calendar year. It is very impressive if you think about the harm humans have caused in such a short period of time.
If we take care of nature, nature will take care of us. It’s now time for our species to stop simply growing to established a life on our planet in balance with nature, to start to thrive. When you think about it, we are completing a journey. 10,000 years ago we lived a sustainable life because that was the only option. All these years later, it’s once again the only option. We need to rediscover how to be sustainable. To move from being apart from nature to becoming a part of nature once again.
If we can change the way we live on earth an alternative future comes into view. In this future we discover ways to benefit from our land that help, rather than hinder, wilderness. And ways to harvest our forests sustainably. We will finally learn how to work with nature rather than against it.
I like the idea of having the need to rediscover how to be sustainable again as our only option to live on this planet. My fictional story for the film is based on this idea, of a potential future in which humans have thrived to be part of nature once again, a future where the only way of living is like it was 10,000 years, where evolution means looking back.
Directed by Steve Hobbs and Ashley Bruce (2009).
Nature is the best engineer, requires minimum resources and minimum energy.
Biomimicry is the science of understanding nature’s unequal deficiency.
Gunter Pault (zero emissions researcher) “Once we get into it, I think we all see major breakthroughs in the industry, and perhaps we needed a crisis to get to that innovative thinking and just put it into a practical, concrete framework now. Not because it is saving the world. We may have saved the world, but first and foremost, because it is more efficient. It’s more competitive. It uses less energy. It allows you to have perfect recycling of all the nutrients continuously. IF you look at silk it’s made of amino acids, that’s all. Inefficiency is rarely tolerated in nature. Very little is wasted in the pursuit of survival. Our innovations can learn from nature supreme efficiency”.
The key thoughts I extracted from watching the episode of Nature Inc. documentary series are the idea of needing a crisis to be able to get innovative ideas and problem-solving. It shows that as species, humans adapt and stay in their comfort zone and just evolve when there’s a crisis. That is what is happening with the fashion industry, it can’t keep progressing as it has been, just taking resources and wasting materials. Bio-design is the answer to the crisis the fashion industry is facing.
The second concept I am interested in is “efficiency”. Efficiency is the good use of time and energy in a way that does not waste any. Efficiency is the condition or fact of producing the results you want without waste, or a particular way in which this is done. NATURE SUPREME EFFICIENCY.
I have been focusing on my internship with Hidden, and also busy with work, I haven’t had the needed time to concentrate on my project as it deserves.
Here are some notes and thoughts on our tutorial.
Consider the form of a fictional documentary. Video in response to a conversation on the top.
Docufiction is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, this term often meaning narrative film. It is a film genre that attempts to capture reality such as it is (as direct cinema or cinéma vérité) and which simultaneously introduces unreal elements or fictional situations in a narrative in order to strengthen the representation of reality using some kind of artistic expression.
Who is going to be the voice? I need the text with a voiceover and do some tests. The video needs an element of reality that balances with the surreal. Maybe I should consider revisiting parts of the interviews I conducted and use the video as help to imagine what the voice tells. And listen to those interviews while watching the film, see how it matches and gives context to what I’ve made.
I also need to think about the titles, credits, sound design and music.
