Going beyond a resource’s exploitability in architecture: a political, anthropological and philosophical challenge. Introduction

The issue of natural resources and their exploitation is at the center of current debates on socioecological transition in the fields of architecture, space and design project. Whether it is material extraction and production to construct our homes, or energy for their operation, the challenge facing our societies today concerns our relationship to the Earth and to its limited natural resources. This relationship puts to question the logic behind the construction and transformation of our liv...