
Nature according to Aristotle and Spinoza. Representation of the sign (reduction, unification, dispersion). Aesthetics - symbolic and real gigantism. Evolution as “progress” and ideology of “development” and “progress” as tactical maneuvers and exploitation of efforts for sustainability. Ecological thought and sustainable development. Various cultural experiences, interpretations, identities and their relationship with the environment, processes of mapping cultural, political and geographical processes, cooperation and feedback. Romanticism, utopianism and ecology. Study of design histories, the discourses of exotic idealism and the creation of cultural actions in the antithesis of the natural, of imposition on the natural environment. Aesthetic perspective and value for the functional relationship between man and nature.