整个地球

整个地球

Whole Earth

“我意识到，整个地球乍一看是非常引人注目的，而且这也会提醒我们注意到：人类的各种行为通常以地球是平的为前提，而实际上它是球形的，是有限的，如果我们不能学会把它当作一个有限的东西来对待，我们将永远实现不了真正的文明。”

"I realized that the sight of the entire planet, seen at once, would be quite dramatic and would make a point … that people act as if the earth is flat, when in reality it is spherical and extremely finite, and until we learn to treat is as a finite thing, we will never get civilization right."

1 在一个密封玻璃球中的平衡生态系统。这个生态圈由水中的几只虾、海扇、海藻、装饰贝壳和砾石组成，是美国航空航天局为进行人类太空探索而开展的研究产物。据它的制造者说，这个生活环境可以维持20年而无需维护。

Balanced ecosystem in a sealed glass sphere. Composed of a few shrimp, a sea fan, algae, decorative shells and gravel in water, the Ecosphere is a spin-off from NASA's research on selfcontained communities for human space exploration. According to its makers it can maintain a living environment for up to 20 years without the need for maintenance.

生态圈®，生态圈协会，美国，1982年/EcoSphere® by EcoSphere Associates, USA, 1982

评论

周宇舫：这里NASA的研究是一个完美自足的生态“球”，据说可以20年不需要维护。当我们把这个生态“球”，作为一个物体展示时，可以被看作是一个声明，一个建构在特定思想上的实体声明。不能想象没有人类思想的世界会是什么样的，即使它是生态自在的，意义何在？所以这个“生态球”提出的是一个问题，而不是“可以”自给自足的20年的假设。

张利：虽然不免要为玻璃球中可怜的虾担心，但我们仍然认为，用一个极简化的封闭系统来传递地球的资源有限性是个好主意。对平衡、自维持和失衡、枯竭的表述是清晰和有力的。

2 《地球升起》是第一次载人绕月轨道飞行的阿波罗8号于任务期间拍摄的照片。虽然这不是美国航空航天局公布的第一张照片，但与月球贫瘠的景观对比，地球的这张图片在提高环境意识方面起到了关键作用。拍照不是宇航员任务的一部分，而是一次不服从命令的行为。

Earthrise is a photograph taken during the Apollo 8 mission, the first manned flight to orbit the Moon. Though not the first one to be released by NASA, this image of Earth, contrasting with the barren landscape of the Moon, played a key role in raising environmental awareness. Taking the picture was not part of the astronauts' assignments, making it an act of insubordination.

项目/Project： 阿波罗8号任务，美国航空航天局，1968年/Apollo 8 Mission by NASA, 1968（摄影/Photo： William Anders）

Comments

ZHOU Yufang:NASA research has produced a selfsustaining, self-contained, "biological" sphere that can exist for 20 year without maintenance. When such an ecological sphere is displayed as an object it is offering a meditation not a solution. What would the world be like without us? Without our habit of thought? The sphere is raising a question rather than a proposal for a self-contained new world and, perversely enough, it is one we can only engage with our minds.

ZHANG Li:Even with inevitable concerns for the poor shrimps inside the sphere, we still find the idea of depicting the limits of the planet earth through such a minimal system plausible. Concepts such as balance, self-sustaining, imbalance, depletion are clearly presented.

3 “整个地球”展台/The table of "Whole Earth"