China, on the border of a new era, has the enviable chance
to leap above techno-social culture and land on a quasi-pristine
environment with a post-Western formula. The Western formula
is (showing) signs of hitting the wall of unconditional materialism,
heralded by (the reality of) what the American Dream is turning
out to be. Logistical paralysis is just one of the afflictions
of the American landscape, imposed on the population by (the)
anti-urban diaspora. To reform this landscape is an exercise
in too little too late. Reform will not (affect) mankind
(differently), because it works at improving the wrong thing
and thus moves toward a (predictable) dead end.
What is needed is reformulation, and China is a land
optimally positioned for such. The core of this reformulation
is (a vision for) the city in (a) more promising transformation.
Life, inventiveness, and culture are more and more in the thick
of things, in accordance with the “teaching” of
nature: (linking willful organisms with Homo sapiens,
to create hyper-organisms, or (the natural) urban context.
The need to entwine the thick of things of the
city with (human) performance and logistics is (the primary)
task addressed by SOLARE.
[Introduction to SOLARE]
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