The Persistence of the Pastoral

Architect, animator and educator Nic Clear challenges the contemporary notion of the pastoral to go beyond the simplistic binary opposites of the untainted rural idyll and the industrialised city. He explores how the narratives of the pastoral have provided a mainstay for science fiction and how thi...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Architectural design 2013-05, Vol.83 (3), p.86-93
1. Verfasser:	Clear, Nic
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	'Isles of Wonder' Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games (NBIC)technologies 2001 Age of Empire Architecture artificial intelligences (AIs) Arts and Crafts movement Avatar Bartlett School of Architecture Bastian Glaessner Bastian Glaessner, Coalescing Landscape, The Virtual Palais Idéal, film still, Unit 15, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), 2001 Biotechnology Björk Charles Dickens Coalescing Landscape Dan Tassell Dan Tassell, Synthetic Arboretum, The Battersea Experiment Danny Boyle Education Enclosure Acts Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Eric Hobsbawm film still foglets Fredric Jameson Gerhard Richter Glastonbury Tor Green and Pleasant Land Hometree Industrial Revolution Isambard Kingdom Brunel James Cameron Jerusalem JG Ballard's The Crystal World John Clute and Peter Nicholls John Ruskin JRR Tolkien Keiichi Matsuda Keiichi Matsuda, Ministry of Abundance, Technocratic Retrofit of London Kibwe Tavares Lucas Tizard Lucas Tizard, Posthuman Merger, Prosthetic Environments Lynn Fox directing group Marc-Antoine (Abbé) Laugier Ministry of Abundance Na'vi Narratives Paul Nicholl's Golden Age interiors Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Posthuman Merger Prosthetic Environments Ray Kurzweil Raymond Williams RIBA Silver Medal Richard Hardy Robots of Brixton Rural Samuel Taylor Coleridge Science fiction Shakespeare's The Tempest Singularity Sir Giles Gilbert Scott Sundance Film Festival Synthetic Arboretum Technocratic Retrofit of London The Battersea Experiment The Country and the City The Invention of Tradition The Virtual Palais Idéal Transcendent City Tree of Souls Unit 15 University College London (UCL) University of Greenwich Ursula K Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest William Blake William Morris's News From Nowhere William Wordsworth ‘Green and Pleasant Land’, ‘Isles of Wonder’ Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games
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Zusammenfassung:	Architect, animator and educator Nic Clear challenges the contemporary notion of the pastoral to go beyond the simplistic binary opposites of the untainted rural idyll and the industrialised city. He explores how the narratives of the pastoral have provided a mainstay for science fiction and how this can be used to re‐imagine nature itself with the aid of advanced biotechnologies to create new architectures for the 21st century.
ISSN:	0003-8504 1554-2769
DOI:	10.1002/ad.1595