整個地球

整個地球

Whole Earth

“我意識到，整個地球乍一看是非常引人注目的，而且這也會提醒我們注意到：人類的各種行為通常以地球是平的為前提，而實際上它是球形的，是有限的，如果我們不能學會把它當作一個有限的東西來對待，我們將永遠實現不了真正的文明。”

"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 在一個密封玻璃球中的平衡生態系統。這個生態圈由水中的幾只蝦、海扇、海藻、裝飾貝殼和礫石組成，是美國航空航天局為進行人類太空探索而開展的研究產物。據它的制造者說，這個生活環境可以維持20年而無需維護。

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.

生態圈?，生態圈協會，美國，1982年/EcoSphere? by EcoSphere Associates, USA, 1982

評論

周宇舫：這里NASA的研究是一個完美自足的生態“球”，據說可以20年不需要維護。當我們把這個生態“球”，作為一個物體展示時，可以被看作是一個聲明，一個建構在特定思想上的實體聲明。不能想象沒有人類思想的世界會是什么樣的，即使它是生態自在的，意義何在？所以這個“生態球”提出的是一個問題，而不是“可以”自給自足的20年的假設。

張利：雖然不免要為玻璃球中可憐的蝦擔心，但我們仍然認為，用一個極簡化的封閉系統來傳遞地球的資源有限性是個好主意。對平衡、自維持和失衡、枯竭的表述是清晰和有力的。

2 《地球升起》是第一次載人繞月軌道飛行的阿波羅8號于任務期間拍攝的照片。雖然這不是美國航空航天局公布的第一張照片，但與月球貧瘠的景觀對比，地球的這張圖片在提高環境意識方面起到了關鍵作用。拍照不是宇航員任務的一部分，而是一次不服從命令的行為。

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.

項目/Project： 阿波羅8號任務，美國航空航天局，1968年/Apollo 8 Mission by NASA, 1968（攝影/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 “整個地球”展臺/The table of "Whole Earth"