TTF 2020 – Veha

VEHA / ВEXA
http://veha.network/
Ani Dalal (IN) | Liudmila Gridneva (RU) | Tatiana Lyubimova (RU)

Anthropocentric Terraforming has affected planetary metabolism, accelerating global warming, and rapid biodiversity loss at the planetary scale. The current approach to the landmass and its management leads to habitat fragmentation, threatening both natural ecosystems and the Anthropocene culture. This project explores the Half-Earth concept through global connectivity corridors as a framework for ecological sustainability and biodiversity protection.

As a planetary strategy, this approach is applicable at different scales, and it requires a general action plan for ecological service system development as an infrastructure.
The focus on the territory of Russia allows revealing its aspects, taking into account local natural and anthropogenic specificities. UNESCO natural World Heritage Sites form the base of the national connectivity map, and areas of potential corridors follow the logic of the landscape processes. Such strategy can be implemented through passive geotechnologies - legislative design and jurisdiction change. The vast permafrost zone reveals a dichotomy between the problems of the melting landscape and the region’s ability to use active rewilding geotechnologies as an advantage, contributing to biodiversity protection efforts, and global warming slowdown.

Credits:

The project was developed during The Terraforming 2020 at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow, Russia
https://theterraforming.strelka.com/

Team: Ani Dalal, Liudmila Gridneva, Tatiana Lyubimova

Programme Director: Benjamin Bratton
Executive Director: Olga Tenisheva
Program Design Tutor: Nicolay Boyadjiev
Program Tutor: Liza Dorrer
Producer: Elena Mozgovaya
Student Coordinator: Vlad Ilkevich

Special thanks to Alyona Chukanova, Alexey Orlov, Ivan Ryabov, Stas Baranov, The Terraforming 2020 Cohort and Faculty

Видео TTF 2020 – Veha канала Strelka Institute/Институт Стрелка