The International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design

In such a historical dramatic period for the future of our planet and their inhabitants, the role of design appears increasingly as a transversal device that connects different knowledges. The assumption of this article is the awareness of the transition from the Holocene era to what the scientists call the Anthropocene, a revolutionary new phase of earth history, that has been unleashed by human action with bad prospects for the planet and the mass of humanity. In this article, the debate on the “Human Age” is argued from a geological and cultural point of view, even considering the positions of philosophers and scholars who have questioned the relationship between nature and the artificial and analyzed how…