Danish Architect Bjarke Ingels explains his plan to save the planet at Summit Palm Desert
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- Acclaimed Danish architect and one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Bjarke Ingles has developed a reputation for designing buildings that are as programmatically and technically innovative as they are cost and resource conscious. After years of passionate research, Bjarke lays out a well-thought-out plan for saving the planet, using his own projects as well as other conceptual creations that are pushing the needle. In this talk, we peer through the lens of architecture and at the challenges (and solutions) ahead for Earth.
This talk was recorded at Summit Palm Desert in November 2022.
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The team that prepared this presentation did an incredibly amazing job. Kudos to all of you
Designing for the entire planet seems like such a massive undertaking, but Bjarke has found a brilliant and elegant approach to simplify the process in such a forward-thinking way. A very inspirational talk - I’m excited to see these projects realized!
Beautifully detailed presentation. I hope that those plants are also producing food! I may have missed that- but that is super important: growing our own food.
Thank you BIG.
Would have been nice to be able to see the slides.
great things to work for Bjarke
Amazing to have a person like Bjarke Ingels and his super team put a vision and plan together, and furthermore for their willingness to share openly and inspire others. Truly awe-inspiring! Thank you!
I don’t think a single individual should be responsible for conceiving a masterplan for our world. Bjarke can manifest beautiful images and grand concepts, but many of them are simply that. Behind the facade of beauty is often dis-functionality manifested by hubris.
What we need is a panel of experts in their fields developing a multi-pronged approach that is built on overlaps of expertise, that doesn’t rely on a singular approach but a multi-faceted one.
Yes... if on Bjarke had a team of experts he could consult with to define a proposal based on real-world projects. Too bad that was missing from the presentation.... ( sigh )
Bjarke is one of the most impressive individuals around today. I just love his ingenuity and originality, and especially his never ending optimism.
The solution besides redesigning the physical space of the city, is to get rid of corruption in all governments, corporations and institutions, the problem is not physical but mental. Keep up the good work BIG!
Bjarke is the man! One of my heroes for sure
"Hedonistic sustainability" should be the principle focus of architecture from here on out.
One of my favorites architect, who think not just in terms of architecture but complete city form and society inclusive in real manner, those emotions are there in his thinking......
TH-cam recommended this video to me today and it couldn't have come at a more opportune time. Bjarke is truly brilliant; we share a profound affinity for concepts such as renewable fractal city design, ecosystems engineering, interplanetary habitation, and more. I'd like to provide some clarification and elaboration on his statement at the 12:14 mark. There, he intended to convey that tilling the land disrupts the microorganisms and intricate fungal networks that play a crucial role in carbon sequestration and nutrient transfer. Consequently, the soil's health deteriorates over time, accompanied by the release of substantial amounts of CO2 during each tilling season. The magnitude of CO2 emissions resulting from tilling is so significant that it can be detected globally through the use of specialized cameras designed for this purpose.
Moving on to his point @12:50, when he mentions not letting the land lie fallow, he's referring to the missed potential for land and soil utilization. Instead, these periods of non-cultivation can be leveraged for regenerative agriculture practices, employing techniques like cover cropping (embracing the no-till philosophy) and integrating cattle, ideally within a silvopastoral setting. Silvopasture not only provides shelter for the cows but also enriches the soil through the microbial activity in their nutrient-rich manure, literally transforming shit into gold. In my view, incorporating aspects of food forests by including plant guilds and starting with fruit trees, which could further enhance agricultural outputs.
I strongly recommend watching the documentary "Kiss The Ground," which delves into the principles of regenerative agriculture. However, the potential doesn't end there. By amalgamating other methodologies like permaculture, hugelkultur, integrated livestock management, crop rotation, polyculture, aquaculture, and more, it's theoretically plausible to achieve yield enhancements of 50% to 120% compared to conventional or organic farming. These calculations were derived from my recent research on the subject, and I echo this sentiment.
I appreciate Bjarke's suggestion of integrating wind and solar energy production into farming practices. Many individuals in West Texas are indeed diversifying their land use by adopting these technologies. Bjarke Ingels is, in my estimation, the most exceptional architect to have ever existed. I fervently hope for the opportunity to one day engage in a meaningful conversation with him; it would undoubtedly be a remarkable exchange of ideas.
What is a food forest and how could one incorporate it into silvopastures
A food forest is a designed agricultural system that mimics the structure and function of a natural forest ecosystem while incorporating edible plants and other useful species. It consists of multiple layers of vegetation, each serving a specific purpose, from canopy trees to ground cover plants. The main goal of a food forest is to create a self-sustaining, diverse, and productive ecosystem that requires minimal human intervention over time. The layers typically include:
Canopy Layer: Tall trees that provide shade, act as windbreaks, and often offer larger fruits like nuts or avocados.
Sub-Canopy Layer: Smaller trees and large shrubs that might produce fruits, nuts, or medicinal plants.
Shrub Layer: Medium-sized shrubs that can provide berries, support pollinators, and fix nitrogen in the soil.
Herbaceous Layer: Perennial herbs and vegetables growing close to the ground.
Ground Cover Layer: Low-growing plants that help retain moisture, suppress weeds, and provide additional edibles.
Root Layer: Edible plants with underground parts like tubers and root vegetables.
Organizing a Food Forest with Cows:
Creating a food forest within a silvopastoral setting with cows requires careful planning to ensure that both the plants and the cows thrive. Here's how you might organize the food forest:
Design: Start by sketching out the layout of the food forest. Consider factors such as sunlight exposure, soil conditions, and water availability.
Canopy Trees: Plant tall trees such as fruit or nut-bearing species in the canopy layer. These trees should be strategically placed to provide shade and shelter for the cows.
Sub-Canopy and Shrub Layer: Choose smaller fruit trees, shrubs, and large bushes for these layers. Focus on plants that are less palatable to cows and provide beneficial fruits or other products.
Herbaceous Layer: Incorporate perennial herbs and vegetables that can tolerate some grazing. These can include plants like chives, mint varieties, and comfrey.
Ground Cover Layer: Select low-growing plants that are less likely to be grazed but can offer useful benefits. This layer can include ground cover crops, nitrogen-fixing plants like clover, and ornamental plants that attract beneficial insects.
Fencing and Protection: Install fencing around the food forest to create designated areas for the cows and to protect more delicate plants. This helps prevent the cows from damaging or eating plants that are not suitable for grazing.
Observation and Adaptation: Regularly observe the interactions between the cows and the plants. If you notice that certain plants are being grazed excessively, consider adjusting the arrangement or introducing additional protective measures.
Care and Maintenance: While the goal is to create a self-sustaining system, some maintenance might be necessary initially. Pruning, weeding, and occasional care for the trees and shrubs can help ensure a successful food forest.
Remember that the success of a food forest in a silvopastoral setting depends on factors like local climate, soil conditions, and the behavior of the cows. Continuously monitoring and adapting your food forest will contribute to the long-term viability of the system, benefiting both the ecosystem and the animals.
Next ensure that the plants you choose are beneficial to both the ecosystem and the cows themselves. You'll want to select plants that don't harm the cows and are also less likely to be eaten by them. Here's a list of suitable options:
Fruit Trees:
Apple Trees: Cows are less likely to eat or damage apple trees.
Pear Trees: Similar to apple trees, pears are usually safe from cow grazing.
Cherry Trees: Most cows tend to avoid cherry trees.
Plum Trees: Plums are generally safe in a cow environment.
Shrubs and Understory Plants:
Blueberry Bushes: Cows typically ignore blueberry bushes.
Currant Bushes: Currants are often not favored by cows.
Gooseberry Bushes: Like currants, gooseberries are usually left untouched.
Raspberry and Blackberry Bushes: These thorny plants are less likely to be grazed.
Native Berry Shrubs: Consider local berry-bearing shrubs that are not appetizing to cows.
Companion Plants:
Comfrey: Comfrey's deep roots can mine nutrients and improve soil health without being attractive to cows.
Chives: These aromatic herbs are less likely to be eaten by cows.
Mint Varieties: Some mint species can deter cows due to their strong scent.
Nitrogen-Fixing Plants:
Clover: Clover is a nitrogen-fixing legume that can enrich the soil. Cows might graze on it occasionally, but it can tolerate some grazing.
Tough Perennials:
Lavender: Lavender's strong aroma can discourage cows from grazing on it.
Thyme: This herb has a woody growth habit that cows tend to avoid.
#smartgardencity (GCoT Model) was presented to head of urbanism in Paris in March 2014. It features all you have mentioned within a range of walkable/cyclable neighbourhoods (5 & 15 Minute walkable, 5 & 15 minute cycleable). It is fractal in form and gestalt in nature employing regenerative approaches to land, economy and community, including education etc. It was submitted to UNHCR Ideas-IKEA Foundation in 2016 What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge. A year later BIG announced Oceanix SFC - a replica design, except Oceanix was on a different back-ground colour - on water. The GCoT model is intended for any part of the Earth's biosphere, including water.
Fuck yea!
Astonishing presentation. Modern VR really helps explaining your concept. Come and save Bangkok, too !!
Apt!
We need so many more BIGroups. Bjarte is only one person and his company … well it all could scale up. To come up with solutions not just architecture schemes and development to force inflation and interfere with drawdown goals. Which COP no longer espouses. Seriously. The rest of us could stand to be less confused but that is what pays money: lies to keep going the same wasteful ways we already use.
if anyone thinks bjarke ingels will save anything, you are mistaken
he has build more sustainable buildings than you ever will
Even a person that just gets people talking about an issue, is doing his part to the save
And what is your contribution?
hope it happens in your grandkids's reality! amen!
As someone who works and has worked in renewables since the 90's and is a carbon chemist, BIG's dissemination and descriptions are misleading. i wish it was as simple as he's described. A linear breakdown of the world's population as a function of the total area of the earth mistakenly ascribes a CO2 cost per person that is equally distributed across the global population. I agree with the aspirations. And I do like that Bjarke and his people took the time to learn more about how we anthropogenically affect the environment. We're entering a time when we as a species will need to consider how our global society is diverting from the Earth's natural carrying capacity. If the human population is to grow beyond 10 billion humans (we're already past 8 billion), and we're decimating the remaining animal populations, we don't have an answer for the Earth's natural biologic carrying capacity. In other words, we've already tipped the scales to initiate the next global extinction event. As a species we need to educate our entire population as quickly as possible to reduce the total number of humans while allowing for as many as possible to have a fulfilling, intellectually stimulating, and joyful life while reducing the overall population to a point that will allow other natural populations of animals to recover and coexist. We are an immature species with the intellectual capacity to outstrip our natural resources to only our benefit. Our challenge, especially if we're to extend into the stars, is to understand how to terraform in a planetary-ecosystem balanced manner.
This is a very old and depressing take. As a technologist, I don't believe in that scarcity mindset. I think the carrying capacity of earth as it relates to humans is very malleable. There are solutions to every problem, which have already been developed and that are 10x+ better than the status quo. Take for instance cell cultured meat and precision fermented fats and pharmaceuticals, these solutions reduce the land and water required per unit of product 10x+ to the status quo. Thus, the carrying capacity of earth as it relates to humans will increase to some degree alongside the scaling of these techologies. An age distribution skewed away from the youth is not a productive society, there are incalculable issues that will arise from promoting population decline. If you wish to contribute to reducing the population in a way that isnt completely self-centered and convenient, take the first step, you know what that is.
@@mangarific1 "old and depressing take" I'm glad you have an opinion, now it's time to get educated. Once you have a position that's defensible based on actual population data of all life on earth, then you can make a more defensible comment other than an ignorant opinion. If you want, you can look at current data from world wildlife fund. My suggestion is you get more education.
@@tentimes4 How is that an ignorant opinion? What a meaningless comment. I can say the same to you, get educated on parabolic technology trends and how they affect society.
@@mangarific1 it's an uneducated opinion because you're not educating yourself on the facts that we've been decimating the wild populations of other species to continue to grow our own. I seriously suggest you look into the facts.
I know we have been and are continuing to do so. I'm saying, that this is not a linear trend that will continue into the future.
I will give you advice for the future, the future related to you and future generations,
the future of this world depends on it,
once it starts
no matter what they tell you,
DON'T FIGHT AND TELL ONLY THE TRUTH
@@IvanSpirit7 for more explaining
first
respect+position+trust
All those words, to say nothing :D
@@levihackerman4892 They talk a lot, you just don't understand them
ask the artificial intelligence for an explanation
@@GraczPierwszy Are you a bot?
@@levihackerman4892 guess or ask artificial intelligence
What if instead of polluting the oceans and the life in them we try to build and reconquer the deserts ? Or should we resign to their existance and their expansion....
The controversial project 'the line' at least go in that way
And how on earth does Ingels find time and creativity to cope with all this projects ???? 😂
Amazing work by the graphic team!
Much as I'm a fan of architechture, the planet doesn't need saving.
I beg to differ.
Yes, catastrophe lies at the door the door, at least it's what the media would have you believe. I'm all for reducing air pollution. Used by Margaret Thatcher to justify closing coal mines, The Royal Scientific Society told her it blaming Co2 had no scientific merit. But, she bullied them into accepting it. Co2 is a non-issue that is now being conveniently used for social engineering purposes@tschmidt3932
This is interesting and well animated. The presenter could be more convincing with a calmer voice rythm. I find it difficult to follow as is. He is a very good architect, but not a orator.
Also, he doesn't seem to comprehend the imense variety of people and countries on earth. What about Iceland, deserts, crowded cities of poor regions, ... ?
For those of you not living in Copenhagen... the "mountain" has been a massive failure in terms of the public usage of it. Almost no one is using it for the recreational purpose that it was built into it, and for sure not to ski on.
Architecture has a huge role to play in shaping our society. But if architects like Bjarke Ingels are not willing to admit failures so that we can learn from them, instead of replicating them, then we will not be able to move forward with the speed that is needed.
Genuinely curious, why do you think this might be? Is it access, for instance too hard to travel to or something? I will ask relatives who live there if they even know it exists haha
I have been there a few times. Always a lot of people there is my experience. The skiing is expensive, and maybe therefore not very used.
13:13 please stop with that argument.... start with the billionaires and their jets...
Can spoil if he says that we must expropriate the rich? It's a 40-minute video, I gotta know beforehand if it worth the effort
Apt!. of course It requires fucking huge amount of money investement.
of course It requires fucking huge amount of money investement
Hmmm - a future city full of cars, modern skyscrapers with 'trees', and massive stroads right though the midtown pedestrian zones... I think I'll pass. Anyone looking for the actual alternative would be wise to look up 'Leon Krier' or 'Jan Gehls', who advocate human-scaled (think 3-5 story townhouses like old-Europe) walkable urbanism without these large-format megaprojects. A little at a time, all which can be built by local craftsman with scaffolding instead of having to call in Kerkstra or Walbridge to build everything with cranes. Love ya Bjarke but modernism (cars + skyscrapers + sprawl) isn't going to save our cities - it's what destroyed them.
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life is not the sims bjarke
As far as I know, the building sector is contributing to climate change in a mayor way. But he cant say that of course being an architect.
Did you see him say hi to the Little Mermaid?
10:52 Yeah lets use trees to build structures, great idea. Not.
Are you serious right now? Timber is sustainable, concrete is not.
Timber structures reduce CO2 in the air, there are also tree farms that most architecture companies resource from so theyre allocating from a renewable source.
@@levihackerman4892 At a global scale, the timber is not growing back as fast as we're cutting it down, therefore it is NOT sustainable (by definition). Great for a small village but cannot be applied to all 8 billion people. End of story.
@@DTR89 That's why it's managed? How are you even thinking? It obviously wouldn't be sustainable if it wasn't managed sustainably. No more forest is harvested than is grown. You have to try things before you can improve. Your mentality of sit at theorize till your head explodes and at the end of the day not doing anything, you'll never improve. That's why we have scientist and investors who aren't afraid to try new things. You gotta be poor irl poor man.
@@levihackerman4892 How are timber buildings a "new thing?" It's an old thing, which has resulted in more than half the world's forests being cut down. "Managed" means nothing. Please improve your English or stay off this American website, thanks
This is nice. But until you address the biggest polluting offenders, and poverty, you will not make any impact.
Very good presentation.
But… he miss something VERY crucial: we don’t have to save the planet and co2 it’s plant food.
All that effort to present a solution, that are on real and extremely expensive. Even not all money on earth can pay this solution.
Climate has always been human biggest enemy. But not anymore due to our energy technology.
Example: yes we double our food industry-and made at the same time we reduced land area for agriculture industry.
He is missing SO MANY positive developments we human are doing great.
He wants to connect South Africa with north Europe with a pipeline.
I’m pro human and this solution he is talking about, will cost many lives to “achieve”.
The empire is naked.
Please tell Bjarke that. 🍏
Questi giovani rampanti non hanno il minimo senso del ridicolo, della misura ma sopratutto non hanno il minimo senso.
if you could just stop presenting the ideas with architectural fetish graphics it would be more convincing to 99% of people.