Symbiocen / Symbiosis

Symbiosis describes living together of different species in relationships that may be mutual, parasitic, or somewhere in between. The term Symbiocene (Glenn Albrecht) names a hoped-for era after the Anthropocene, where human and nonhuman life would thrive in mutual benefit. It is an attractive vision, but maybe also too clean. Symbiosis is not always gentle; it can be extraction and dependency as much as cooperation. To imagine the Symbiocene risks smoothing over conflict, forgetting that living together is often tense, fragile, unstable. Thinking symbiotically means designing with entanglement—plants, animals, humans, soils, machines. But it also means staying with the doubt: coexistence is messy, not only harmony.

/ Urška Škerl

The Dutch Landscape, The Ultimate Guide for Study, Professional and Personal Use by Alexandra Tišma[1] and Han Lörzing[2] is a “text-book” and a thorough yet very accessible guide on landscapes in the Netherlands – described from many angles and scales, historical, geographical, geological and biotic layers, cultural landscapes, from development, and planning to conservation – […]

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