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Homo Ecologicus: For a Culture of Sustainability
Homo Ecologicus: For a Culture of Sustainability deals with the impact of new socio-ecological references in shaping the artificial, technical and aesthetic environment. Its scope is therefore the ecology of the artificial. The exhibition is the result of multidisciplinary research that provides testimonies of a transition towards sustainability.
Homo Ecologicus: For a Culture of Sustainability insists that the problem of shaping the artificial environment is not exclusively the concern of technicians, planners and politicians, but of collectivity as a whole. If today’s environmental reality is to shift towards sustainability, it will also be due to a change in habits and values in the realm of everyday life. The exhibition therefore challenges the intelligence and sensitivity of all social actors.
The reflection proposed by Homo Ecologicus: For a Culture of Sustainability is socio-anthropological in nature, because it is about the way we design, build and use the artificial everyday environment and its objects, and their impact on the ecosystem. It insists on the necessary relationship between devising and generating technical, ethical and aesthetic qualities in the environment, and it refers to learning new ways of ‘doing’, ‘consuming’, ‘using’ or ‘disusing’. The exhibition presents both everyday objects that adopt the language of the instrument or tool and those that speak the symbolic language of art, in a relationship of communicative coexistence.
The narrative thread of the exhibition can be summarised in three main thematic blocks: a) an introduction that demonstrates the development of a technical and symbolic culture and how its competition with the natural environment is resolved to the detriment of the environment (rooms: ‘From Homo Faber to Homo Ecologicus’ and ‘The Worn-out Earth’); b) the presentation of the planetary generalisation of the ecological social crisis, as well as the configuration of an awareness that leads to the proposal of alternative social models and development paths (rooms: ‘Global Ecological Crises’ and ‘Towards a Sustainable Society’); and c) from this presentation, various testimonies of the impact of ecological references on the production and use of the everyday environment appear on stage (rooms: ‘Living and Building’, ‘Things’, ‘Transport and Mobility’, ‘Images and Words’, ‘Materials, Services and Information’ and ‘Ecology of the Invisible’, virtual in nature and bringing together all the works of art distributed throughout the exhibition).
