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Agriculture &
Architecture:
Taking the
Country’s Side




Prologue


Introduction


Timeline


A. Agriculture & Architecture

  1. Homo Domesticus
  2. Sublimation
  3. Coincidence
  4. Villa Suburbana
  5. Agritecture
  6. Self-Sufficiency
  7. Integration?


B. Agriculture & Urbanism

  1. The Urban Revolution
  2. Mundus
  3. Imago Mundi
  4. Land Use Model
  5. Nature to Market
  6. Urbanism
  7. Agrarian Urbanism?


C. From Agronomy to Agroecology

  1. A Hobby for Urban Elites
  2. Plantations and Enclosures
  3. From alchemy to Chemistry
  4. From War to Field Operations
  5. “Get Big or Get Out” 
  6. Permanent and Organic Agriculture
  7. Beyond Industrial Agriculture


D. Exit Urbs

  1. Zomia
  2. Monasteries
  3. Anarchy and Localism
  4. Ruralism
  5. “Think Little”
  6. “Workers of the World, Disperse”
  7. Becoming Native


E. Facing the Present Environmental Predicament

  1. “A Blueprint for Survival”
  2. Energy Descent
  3. 1972: “The Limits to Growth”
  4. “Beyond Industrial Technology”
  5. “Small is Beautiful”
  6. 1978: “Permaculture One”
  7. 2008: “Future Scenarios”


F. Reframing the Practice & Theory of Design

  1. Major Precedents
  2. Ethic and Design Principles
  3. A Radical Site-Specificity
  4. A Reformulation of Site Planning
  5. Deepening Territories
  6. Reconsidering Urbanism
  7. Sub-Urbanism?

Constellation


Compass


What is a world?



Current exhibition
Lectures


Interview


Gallery


Statements and Reviews


Book 


Info / Credits
Mark

Info




Talk between Rem Koolhaas and Sébastien Marot at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB-La Cambre Horta) for the Brussel’s exhibition closing - 21 november 2022 - French and English



Inaugural conference of the exhibition at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) by Sébastien Marot and Matthieu Calame - 26 february 2020 - French


Conference (Part 1/3) by Sébastien Marot and David Holmgren during the 5th Lisbon Triennale - 28 November 2019 - English



Conference (Part 2/3) by Colin Moorcraft, Carolyn Steel and Joëlle Zask during the 5th Lisbon Triennale - 28 November 2019 - English



Debate (Part 3/3) between Colin Moorcraft, Carolyn Steel, Joëlle Zask and Sébastien Marot during the 5th Lisbon Triennale - 28 November 2019 - English