Haraway and others have suggested reciprocity with the non-human world is a pathway to understanding our humanness. Two urgent trends accelerate our need for this reciprocity: the first is the COVID-19 pandemic as a harbinger of future pandemics, and the second is our changing planetary climate. Our present time is increasingly becoming a present-future, linked irreversibly by scientific models to specific future states of our planet and local regions. At the same time our bodies are co-evolving with a virus in a global reciprocal process with no end in sight, collapsing our sense of scale and separation among bodies. A long view of time in the past could act as a counterbalance to this experience. Bringing the longue duree model of time into our present requires reestablishing our knowledge of a long-term past in which humans adapted to major changes in climate earlier in the Holocene. Forms of future urban adaptation can embody reciprocity by emphasizing strategies that anticipate change rather than seeking to prevent it, leaping forward in time to embrace global changes we are no longer able to prevent.
Hill, K
Reciprocity and design for an era of compressed temporal and spatial scale
Ri Vista-Ricerche Per La Progettazione Del Paesaggio