On the Usefulness of Modern Animism: Co-Creating Architecture with Soils as Ontopolitical Practice

IF 1 Q3 GEOGRAPHY Geohumanities Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.1080/2373566X.2021.1904785
Eric Guibert
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In opposition to the general understanding of animism as an irrational religious set of beliefs, the—secular—modern animism embodied in this practice of built and grown architecture is operative. It conceives of places—ecosystems—as beings with agency that we garden with to nurture and express their resilience. It is a useful ontology for ecological practice; this architectural animism is ontopolitical; it co-creates a common world. At a recent symposium, a number of projects were presented as architectural soils and to give a voice to these earthly beings, the method was to write a letter from them to me. This first letter with the response in this article forms the beginning of an animistic correspondence. The medium places the reader in a pluriverse, in between the multiple voices of various “actants.” The text is isomorphic to the embodied dialogue of this earthy practice. It is useful both to nurture societal awareness—empathy and care—towards these fragmentary ecosystemic beings, and as research method to conceive them, and our relationship.
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论现代万物有灵论的有用性:与土壤共同创造建筑作为拓扑政治实践
与普遍认为万物有灵论是一种非理性的宗教信仰相反,世俗现代万物有灵论体现在这种建造和发展的建筑实践中。它把地方——生态系统——想象成具有能动性的存在,我们用它来培育和表达它们的弹性。它是一种有益的生态实践本体论;这种建筑万物有灵论是拓扑政治的;它共同创造了一个共同的世界。在最近的一次研讨会上,一些项目被作为建筑土壤提出,为了给这些地球生物一个声音,方法是给他们写一封信给我。这第一封信与这篇文章的回应形成了万物有灵论通信的开始。媒介将读者置于一个多元的世界中,置身于各种“角色”的多种声音之间。文本与这种世俗实践的具体对话是同构的。培养对这些零碎的生态系统生物的社会意识——同理心和关怀,以及作为一种研究方法来构思它们和我们的关系,都是有用的。
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