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You may pick up your essays at the reception desk at SUM. Remember your student ID.

The seminar today at 11 is in the Latin-America room, 2nd floor.

Tomorrow's lecture is entitled “The Closed World of Ecological Architecture”

The lecture "The Bauhaus of Nature" will be published in the next issue of the journal Modernism/modernity. The journal is available online at www.bibsys.no

EXAM SUM 4016 2005

Please write an essay of about 8-10 pages answering one of the following questions. Your answer should be delivered to the reception desk at SUM Wednesday May 18 before 12:00. Good luck.

1. Use the approach from Christine Macy and Sarah Bonnemaison's Architecture and Nature (2003) to write a historical analysis of an environmental debate you find interesting. Make sure to include both primary and secondary sources in your discussion.

2. Write a thorough book review of Christine Macy and Sarah Bonnemaison's Architecture and Nature (2003). Imagine that you are to submit the review for publication in one of the following academic journals: Environmental History, Metascience, or Journal of Architecture. They are geared respectively towards historians of the environment, philosophers of science, and architects. They all welcome a rich bo...

Today's lecture "The Ecological Colonization of Space" will be published in the next issue of the journal Environmental History. The journal is available online at www.bibsys.no for students at the University of Oslo.

The seminar on Thursday 28.4. is moved to Tuesday 3.5. from 11.15 to 13.00, because Guro is in Bergen on the 28th.

The leftist response to Smuts and holism has been published as Peder Anker “The Politics of Ecology in South Africa on the Radical Left,” Journal of the History of Biology, 37 (2004), 303-331. The article is available for free at www.bibsys.no.

The copymachine at SUM is broken. you will receive the paper by Moholy-Nagy, “Why Bauhaus Education?” when it is working

The two first lectures of this module has been published as Peder Anker, Imperial Ecology, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001).

Program for the next seminar (7.April):

1. Discussion of South African holism and British ecosystem theory. Kofi will give a brief introduction, and lead the discussion.

2. Discussion of Macy/Bonnemaison, ch 1-4, and "Bauhaus and Nature" (topic of lecture 3). Heidi and Lucas will give a brief introduction and lead the discussion.

The seminars are meant to discuss the coming lecture, not the previous one, so we have some catching up to do in the beginning. We will be ajour by next Thursday. This means you have to read the literature for the Tuesday lectures before the preceding seminar on Thursdays.

Remember to choose one Buckminster Fuller book and read it before the seminar on April 14th.

PROGRAM

LECTURES: TUESDAYS 2-4pm (Mars 29, April 5, 12, 19, 26, May 3)

SEMINARS: THURSDAYS 10-12am (Mars 31, April 7, 14, 21, 28, May 12) Seminar leader: Guro Aandahl

1. Lecture Mars 29: Ecology and the Empire I: Britain and the World

Read: Guha, Environmentalism, Chapter 1-4. Tansley, "The Classification of Vegetation" Tansley, "The Use and the Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms" Wells, Huxley and Wells, The Science of Life

2. Lecture April 5: Ecology and the Empire II: South African Holism

Read: Guha, Environmentalism, Chapter 6. Phillips, "Man at the Cross-Roads" Phillips, "The Biotic Community" Smuts, Holism and Evolution Smuts, "The Spirit of the Mountain"

3. Lecture April 12: Science and Sustainability I: Bauhaus of Nature

Read: Macy and Bonnemaison, Architecture and Nature, Chapter 1-4. L. Moholy-Nagy, "Why Bauhaus Education?"

4. Lecture Apri...

Science, Culture and Sustainability (4016)

Module coordinator: Peder Anker

LITTERATURE

Books to buy:

Ramachandra Guha, Environmentalism: A Global History, (New York: Longman, 1999).

Christine Macy and Sarah Bonnemaison, Architecture and Nature, (New York, 2003).

Optional recommended non-fiction:

William Cronon (ed.), Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature (New York: Norton, 1995).

Charles Rubin, The Green Crusade, (Lanham: Rawman & Littlefield, 1998).

Donald Worster, Nature's Economy, 2nd ed., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Optional recommended fiction

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, (London: Chatto & Windus, 1932), or any edition.

H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, any edition.

Optional recommended computer game

MAXIS, SIMEarth: The Living Planet, (Redwood City, CA: Electronic Arts, 1995), or later versio...