An Exercise in Reorientation
The Wild Commons Network uses technology to create new avenues for communication and understanding between all actors present in the landscape. With the introduction of technology, the Network not only functions as a spatial commons but as an intellectual commons which, at its highest level has the potential to support the emergence of a climate sensitive language which is grounded in the unique character of the landscape. This language allows conversations between all actors in the Network (human and nonhuman) according to Bruno Latour's Actor Network Theory, that is needed in order to tackle the ever changing challenges of climate change.
TECHNOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE
Conceptual Framework
Technology in the Anthropocene
'Technology is society made durable. Change the instruments and you change the entire social theory that goes with them'
Bruno Latour. (2014). Technology is Society Made Durable. The Sociological review. Keele. 38(1). p.103–131.
A Technological Landscape System
‘While celebrating the advances of the technological age that have brought us more than enough food to feed the world from less land than ever, it could also encourage us to address the failures of ‘masculine’ science – the mindset holds new technology as the answer to all our problems and any idea of returning to the older technologies of traditional systems, and of yielding to nature, as a backward step’
Isabella Tree, Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm, p.307
