re_patterning : art data polycrisis

Re:pattterning our cities

We're applyingspace data to re imagine and plan our cities with Permaculture principles and the Doughnut model

What does a truly resilient city actually look like?

All of us want greener, cleaner cities – but we does that even look like?

How can we turn imaginaries into tangible visions?

Re:_patterning our cities deploys space data, permaculture principles, ultra low impact AI, artistic inspiration – to unleash people’ imaginations.

This is how it works

Imagining and planning heat resilient urban landscapes and communities

Climate forward and adapted cities will need: radically improved air quality, more humidity (which is cooling in most European cities), more vegetation.

We can deploy Copernicus space data to show these critical climate metrics – air quality, humidity vegetation - in current urban spaces.

We’ll use our crate our own urban model based in doughnut economics to enable people to map out new ways to imagine the city; that radically reshape our urban landscapes.

The idea of a “crisis of the imagination” refers to the cultural and social inability to envision alternatives to the destructive systems we live within, for example capitalism, consumerism, and the growth-driven economy that drive the transgression of planetary boundaries. Indeed there is a well-known phrase that describes this: "It it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism" (F. Jameson / Žižek). 

But what if part of the problem was thinking that knowledge based on a system of extraction was true knowledge in the first place? In Staying with the Trouble (2016), Donna Haraway argues that the problem is not just a failure of imagination but the wrong kind of imagination — one shaped by anthropocentrism, individualism, and apocalypse thinking. The Institute of Radical Imagination goes further stating “Dystopia is privilege. Enough with the apocalyptic talk, it’s not the end of the world, but of global capitalism and its toxic imaginaries.”