Readings

We will add to this bibliography as the research progresses.

Books

Alberti, Marina, Cities That Think like Planets. Complexity, Resilience, and Innovation in Hybrid Ecosystems, University of Washington Press, 2016.
Arkhipov, Vladimir, Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts, Fuel, 2006.
Bardini, Thierry, Junkware, University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
Boffa, Alessandro, You’re an Animal, Viskovitz, Penguin Random House, 2003.
Caffo, Leonardo, Fragile Umanità. Il Postumano Contemporaneo. Einaudi, 2017.
Capra, Fritjof and Pier Luigi Luisi, The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision, Cambridge University Press, 2014
Capra, Fritjof, Green Politics, Dutton, 1984
Clément, Gilles, Manifeste du tiers paysage, Sujet-Objet, 2004.
Clément, Gilles, Le jardin en mouvement, Pandora, 1991.
Coccia, Emanuele, The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture, Polity Press, 2018.
Campbell, Timothy C., Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben, University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Cottam, Hilary, Radical Help, Virago, 2018.
Da Costa, Beatriz and Philip Kavita, Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience, MIT Press, 2008.
Davis, Heather and Etienne Turpin, Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies, Open Humanities Press, 2015.
Dawson, Ashley, Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change, Verso Books, 2017.
Demos, T.J, Decolonizing Nature, Sternberg Press, 2016.
Despret, Vinciane, What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Dorfles, Gillo, Artificio e Natura, Einaudi, 1968.
Dubreuil, Laurent and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Dialogues on the Human Ape, University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
Echanove,Matias, Rahul Srivastava, URBZ, The Slum Outside: Elusive Dharavi, Strelka Press, 2014.
Edwards, Paul N., A Vast Machine. Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming, MIT Press, 2010.
Eisenstein, Charles, Sacred Economics. Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition, Evolver Editions, 2011.
Ginsberg, Alexandra Daisy, Jane Calvert, Pablo Schyfter, Alistair Elfick and Drew Endy, Synthetic Aesthetics. Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature, MIT Press, 2014.
Graham, James, Caitlin Blanchfield, Alissa Anderson, Jordan Carver, and Jacob Moore, Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2016.
Gray, John, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, Granta Books, 2002.
Ghosh, Amitav, The Great Derangement. Climate Change and the Unthinkable, University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Harari, Yuval, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Vintage Publishing, 2015.
Haraway, Donna, J. Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016.
Jasanoff, Sheila and Sang-Hyun Kim, Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power, Chicago University Press, 2015.
Keenan, Jesse & Weisz Claire, Climate Change by Design. Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2017.
Kellert, Stephen R., Judith Heerwagen and Martin Mador, Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life, Wiley, 2008.
Klein, Naomi, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Kolbert, Elizabeth, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt & Company, 2014.
Kroeber LeGuin, Ursula, The Lathe of Heaven, Avon Books, 1971.
Kurlansky, Mark, SALT: A World History, Walker Books, 2002.
Latour, Bruno, Reset Modernity! MIT Press, 2016.
Latour, Bruno, Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime, Wiley, 2017.
Lowenhaupt Tsing, Anna, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Princeton University Press, 2015.
Mabey, Richard, The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination, Profile Books, 2015.
Macy, Joanna, World as Lover, World as Self: Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal, Parallax Press, revised edition, 2007.
Massumi, Brian, What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Duke Universiy Press, 2014.
Monbiot, George, Feral. Searching for enchantment on the frontiers of rewilding, Penguin Press, 2013.
Morozov, Evgeny, Solutionism. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism, PublicAffairs, 2013.
Morton, Oliver, The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World, Granta Books, 2015.
Morton, Timothy, Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World. Columbia University Press, 2013.
Morton, Timothy, Being Ecological, Penguin Books, 2018.
Myers, William, Biodesign: Nature, Science, Creativity, MoMA, 2012.
Nixon, Rob, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Harvard University Press, 2013.
Philipsen, Dirk, The Little Big Number, Princeton University Press, 2015.
Piciocchi, Alice, and Andrea Angeli, Kiribati: An Island World Vanishes into the Ocean, Büro Sieveking GmbH, 2017.
Pollan, Michael, Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education, Grove Press, 1991.
Purdy, Jedediah, After Nature. A Politics for the Anthropocene, Harvard University Press, 2015.
Robinson, Kim Stanley, There Is No Planet B, Sierra, 2018.
Rael, Ronald, Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary, Univeristy of California Press, 2017.
Regis, Ed and George Church, Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves, Basic Books, 2012.
Scott, Felicity, Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency, MIT Press, 2016.
Serres, Michel, The Natural Contract, University of Michigan Press, 1995.
Smith, Mick, Against Ecological Sovereignty. Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World, University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Turpin, Etienne, Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy, Open Humanities Press, 2013.
Ward, Colin, The Child in the City, Penguin, 1979.
Wright, Ronald, A Short History of Progress, Anansi, 2004.
Wulf, Andrea, The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science, John Murray, 2001.
Wyndham, John, Trouble with Lichen, Penguin, 1963.

Essays

Leonardo Caffo, “Anticipationism and Anthropocene.” Digimag, 2018.
Oron Catts, “Weighing Up Lab-Grown Steak: the Problems with Eating Meat Are not Silicon Valley’s to Solve.” The Conversation, October 11, 2017.
Adam Frank, “Was There a Civilization on Earth Before Humans?.” The Atlantic, April 13, 2018.
Ian Frazier, “The Vertical Farm.” New Yorker, January 9, 2017.
Suzanne Goldenberg, “The Doomsday Vault: the Seeds that Could Save a Post-Apocalyptic World.” The Guardian, May 20, 2015.
Giles Harvey, “The Speculative Dread of “Black Mirror”.” The New Yorker, November 28, 2016.
Nathan Heller, “If Animal Have Rights, Should Robots?.” The New Yorker, November 28, 2016.
Leslie Jamison, “The Digital Ruins of a Forgotten Future.” The Atlantic, December 1, 2017.
Raffi Khatchadourian, “The Long View. Edward Burtynsky’s Quest to Photograph a Changing Planet.” The New Yorker, December 19, 2016.
Jill Lepore, “The Atomic Origin Of Climate Science.” The New Yorker, January 30, 2017.
Brian Massumi, “What Animals Teach Us about Politics”,
Bill McKibben, “The Race to Solar Power Africa.” The New Yorker, June 26, 2017.
Karen Newman and Cara Smyth, “Role of the Fashion Industry in UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.” Inter Press Service, October 23, 2017.
Michelle Nijhuis, “The Teen-Agers Suing Over Climate Change.” The New Yorker, December 6, 2016.
Vyacheslav Polonski and Jane Zavalishina, “Moral Machines: Here Are 3 Ways to Teach Robots Right From Wrong.” World Economic Forum, November 3, 2017.
Megan Ray Nichols, “Here’s What Manufacturing Enhanced with Virtual Reality Will Look Like.” Next Nature Network, March 1, 2018.
Christopher J. Rhodes, “Mycoremediation (Bioremediation with Fungi) – Growing Mushrooms to Clean the Earth”, Chemical Speciation & Bioavailability, Volume 26 – Issue 3, pages: 196-198, 2014 (published online: 2015).
John H. Richardson, “When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job.” Esquire, July 7, 2015.
Zan Romanoff, “Our Jeans Are Ruining The Planet, but This Company Wants Fix That.” Racked, June 16, 2017.
Joshua Rothman, “Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality?”, The New Yorker, April 2, 2018.
Christian Schwagerl, “How We Must Adjust Our Lifestyles to Nature: Welcome to the ‘Anthropocene’, the Human Epoch.” Independent, February 24, 2015.
Michael Specter, “Rewriting the Code of Life.” The New Yorker, January 2, 2017.
Charles Neal Stewart Jr., Rana K. Abudayyeh, Susan G. Stewart “Houseplants as home health monitors“, Science, July 20, 2018.
Sarah Stillman, “Can Behavioral Science Help in Flint?.” The New Yorker, January 23, 2017.
Nicola Twilley, “Seeing With Your Tongue.” The New Yorker, May 15, 2017.
Bas Van Lier, “Wdcd Live: The Fuel, The Knowledge and The Network.” What design can do, February 28, 2018.
Ed Yong, “Nature’s Partnerships Might Break in a Warming World.” The Atlantic, March 5, 2018.
David Wallace-Wells, “The Uninhabitable Earth.” New York Magazine, July 9, 2017.
Bill Wasik, “What the Car Did — and What it Might Do.” The New York Times, Tech and Design Issue, November 7, 2017.
Jonathan Watts, “Arctic Warming: Scientists Alarmed by ‘Crazy’ Temperature Rises.” The Guardian, February 27, 2018.
Carl Zimmer, “A Few Species of Frogs That Vanished Might Be on the Rebound.” The New York Times, March 29, 2018.
“Whence New Plagues.” The Economist, June 24, 2017.
“Why Extinctions Aren’t What They Used to Be.” The Economist, August 5, 2017.
“Researchers Get Better at Tweaking the Genomes of Human Embryos.” The Economist, August 5, 2017.

Reportages

Eillie Anzilotti, “Food waste is going to take over the fashion industry.” Fast Company, June 15, 2018.
Anne Barnard, “Climate Change Is Killing the Cedars of Lebanon“, The New York Times, July 18, 2018.
Rachel Botsman, “The Year Is 2030, Trust Has Gone Digital. How Do You Score?.” World Economic Forum, November 10, 2017.
Damian Carrington, “Warning of ‘Ecological Armageddon’ After Dramatic Plunge in Insect Numbers.” The Guardian, October 18, 2017.
Jennifer Duggan, “Inside the ‘Doomsday’ Vault.” Time.
Amy Frearson, “We Need Designers, not Scientists, to Show Us How to Change the World, Says Babette Porcelijn.” Dezeen, November 22, 2017.
Vanessa Friedman, “A Call to Activism for Outdoor Apparel Makers.” The New York Times, July 27, 2017.
Jacey Fortin, “Lasers Reveal a Maya Civilization So Dense It Blew Experts’ Minds.” The New York Times, February 3, 2018.
Natashah Hitti, “Carlsberg replaces plastic ring can holders with recyclable glue” Dezeen, September 8, 2018
Kaitlin Keleher, “Zen and the Art of Beekeeping Backwards: LA’s Urban Beekeeping Movement”, Huffington Post, December 14, 2010.
Apoorva Mandavilli, “The World’s Worst Industrial Disaster Is Still Unfolding“, The Atlantic, July 10, 2018.
David R. Montgomery, “Healthy soil is the real key to feeding the world”, The Conversation, April 4, 2017.
Alice Morby, “Willow’s Wireless Breast Pump Allows Women to Express Milk on the Go.” Dezeen, January 9, 2017.
Alice Morby, “Saudi Arabia Becomes First Country to Grant Citizenship to a Robot.” Dezeen, October 26, 2017.
Tom Ravenscroft, “Dezeen Launches Gender Pay Gap Calculator to Help Tackle Inequality in the Workplace.” Dezeen, March 9, 2018.
Auden Schendler and Andrew P. Jones, “Stopping Climate Change Is Hopeless. Let’s Do It“, The New York Times, October 6, 2018.
Ajay Singh Chaudhary, “It’s Already Here Left-wing climate realism and the Trump climate change memo“, n+1, October 10, 2018.
Amia Srinivasan, “What Termites Can Teach Us“, The New Yorker, September 17, 2018.
Julissa Treviño, This “Mutant Enzyme” Breaks Down Plastic, Smithsonian.com, April 25, 2018.
Gunseli Yalcinkaya, “Synthetic Polleniser Could Help Depleting Bee Population.” Dezeen, February 19, 2018.
Gunseli Yalcinkaya, “Goodyear’s “Living” Car Tyre Converts Carbon Dioxide into Oxygen.” Dezeen, May 9, 2018.
Steph Yin, “How Far to the Next Forest? A New Way to Measure Deforestation“, The New York Times, February 23, 2017.
Richard Wolkomir, “Review of ‘Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World’”, Smithsonian Magazine, May, 1998.

Broken Nature

The XXII Triennale di Milano, Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, highlights the concept of restorative design and studies the state of the threads that connect humans to their natural environments––some frayed, others altogether severed. In exploring architecture and design objects and concepts at all scales and in all materials, Broken Nature celebrates design’s ability to offer powerful insight into the key issues of our age, moving beyond pious deference and inconclusive anxiety. By turning its attention to human existence and persistence, the XXII Triennale will promote the importance of creative practices in surveying our species’ bonds with the complex systems in the world, and designing reparations when necessary, through objects, concepts, and new systems. Even to those who believe that the human species is inevitably going to become extinct at some point in the (near? far?) future, design presents the means to plan a more elegant ending. It can ensure that the next dominant species will remember us with a modicum of respect: as dignified and caring, if not intelligent, beings.

Broken Nature is composed of a thematic exhibition and a number of international participations solicited through official channels. It will run from March 1 to September 1, 2019.

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