Black Ecologies, editorial nueva etapa

In this ninth issue (first of this new period) the term “black ecologies”, as it is used in these pages, is a reference to the expression “dark ecologies” – coined by Timothy Morton in 2007.1 It translates a new interest aimed at exploring a “new nature”, not only related to architectural space but in the framework of the environment as a whole, not necessarily from the standpoint of the generalized vision of the “ecological”. While the adjective “dark” encompasses the “murky” condition of urban, peri-urban – and increasingly para-natural – scenarios and materials, its sustainable complement (“ecologies”) posits the need to foster an investigation of “environmental conditions” that leave behind the Bucolic, the Platonic and/or Apollonian ideal: “environmental conditions” in which parameters of “noise”, pollution, attrition, corruption and/or hybridization are considered as a substantive part of the processes being addressed.