Peter Adamson

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History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps · Bonus Episode: Glenn Adamson on A Century of Tomorrows · 16 Aug 2026 podcast

So has this kind of paradox built into it.

And he took that same kind of

thinking that he uses in the geodesic dome to everything.

So he also thinks of famously thinks of the planet as spaceship heart.

And he has this very influential metaphor that we're all hurdling through the darkness of space and we are the crew and the planet is our craft.

And what we need to do is work together in cooperative systems to make

And so that becomes very influential later on in the sixties.

But these are ideas that he's already started to develop in the nineteen again twenties and nineteen thirties.

And so the reason I call him a garden thinker is because if you think about the way that a garden works as distinct from a machine, it does have a certain amount of unpredictability, like you don't know exactly which flowers you're gonna get, and you do have to tend it.

So it does have some human involvement of light and nature, which of course

You know, count there.

And of course it is increasingly subject to human influence, but the basic no nature culture divide would suggest that the humans are on one side and everything else is on the other and the garden is kind of in the middle, right?

It's where humans interact productively with nature, both for our own good and for the

ongoing propagation of the plants.

And the h this idea of the future is that it needs to be tended like that.

And that's the way that Fuller and many others, like Kathenbauer, great urbanists, for example, would think about it.

that even in a city you should try to

conduct your planning processes much as a gardener would their beds, you know, keep them fed, watered, allow a certain amount of unpredictability, kind of organicism.

It's also an idea that people might associate it later on with the urbanist Jane Jacobs.

Yeah.

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