Enacting Gregory Bateson’s Ecological Aesthetics in Architecture and Design

Starting a two year AHRC-DFG jointly funded reseach project on the work of ecological anthropologist Gregory Bateson, together with Joanna Boehnert, Marie Davidova, Dulmini Perera, Simon Sadler and Ben Sweeting. You can follow us online at https://www.enactingecologicalaesthetics.com/

Enacting Gregory Bateson’s Ecological Aesthetics in Architecture and Design

Anne Douglas and I discussed Gregory Bateson’s ecological thinking in relation to the approach of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison in a Chapter in the book Imaginative Ecologies – you can access a late draft here https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1317517 and the full citation is

FREMANTLE, C. and DOUGLAS, A. 2021. Foregrounding ecosystems: thinking with the work of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. In Villanueva-Romero, D., Kerslake, L. and Flys-Junquera, C. (eds.) Imaginative ecologies: inspiring change through the humanities. Nature, culture and literature, 17. Netherlands: Brill [online], chapter 5, pages 81-106. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004501270_007

I’ve been listening to the discussion on Bateson and Varela which starts with a detailed discussion of the key players in Cybernetic Counterculture – well worth investigating…