Post-natural inclusions

The perception of Nature as a "separate and intact sphere, as a wild space to be protected and preserved by staying away from it "[Morton, 2016 p.8] or as a "subjugated and dominated element "[Morton, 2007 p.15], has prevented an inclusive and direct relationship on the part of us human beings. Imagining it as an untouchable and untouched space or as a commodity, resource or instrument for the devastation of organic ecosystems, linked to profit, are two sides of the same coin. Treating Nature, together with all living and non-living forms on earth, as an entity composed of separate elements, typical of the deterministic scientific system has driven the architecture of Modernism. It led to a season in which the relationship between man and space was divided into functions that did not intersect with each other, resulting in a built space only as a sequence of different, differently organised functions. This attitude created architecture and cities without relationships between the parts, leading to the dissolution of the forma urbis traditionally understood, which predisposed us to inhabit "territories whose metrics are no longer spatial "[Cacciari 2021 p.14]. In the historical city, there was a relationship and a direct correspondence between human life and the quality of architecture, while the symbolic system we use today as architects can no longer totally represent the ever-changing human community because it is all too often fuelled by an abstract composition of absolute purism that places architecture on a totally autonomous and abstract plane, and is consequently inadequate to represent contemporary living. For this reason, there seems to be a need to adapt the design process to the elaboration of visions and strategies that are different from the past in which a different concept of Nature is used, derived from the bursting in of inclusive relationships between all the elements, living and not, that make up the scene, in which there is no dominion over Nature and of Nature. We need to operate on the environment, in constant crisis, with hybrid, real conditions, necessary to unhinge the vision we have maintained from antiquity to the present.