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Towards an Ecumenial or a Catastrophic City? A Design, Ecumene and Humanitarian Discussion

dc.contributor.authorCastro Seixas, Paulo
dc.contributor.authorLobner, Nadine
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-23T13:22:49Z
dc.date.available2023-08-23T13:22:49Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThis paper is an attempt to explore the interplay of humanity and science to respond to novel globalization processes in the face of the 21st century. The human situation is presented through two schisms: the human-nature and the socio-cultural. Sustainability and ecumene studies are proposed as the new aggregated science fields aiming at solutions for the 21st century. Ecumene studies respond to the need to create a planetary intellectual infrastructure (a planetary brain) that “thinks” in an ecumenial way (beyond border conviviality) for a global transformation and reconciliation of human differences in/for a cosmopolitan perspective. Ecumenic, humanitarian and design movements/studies are considered the main areas of ecumene studies as an inter- and transdisciplinary field, with the city (in all its forms) as its core platform. The city as a human extension and dissipative system reveals a duality since its origin, coming to a peak of conviviality as it will comprise two third of humanity by 2050. This peak will either lead to higher forms of organization (anastrophe), or to collapse (catastrophe). The paper presents the “ecumenial city” or Ecumenopolis (city of Human Rights) as a anastrophic future projection and a call for everyone, emphasizing both a destiny and small actions for activating transformation and reconfiguration in times of approaching the peak.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.12893/gjcpi.2022.2.7pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/28190
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectecumene studies, ecumenial city, beyond border conviviality, global moni toring, new research agenda.pt_PT
dc.titleTowards an Ecumenial or a Catastrophic City? A Design, Ecumene and Humanitarian Discussionpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.titleGlocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovationpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume2pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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