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Currently we witness a strong change in the climate of the planet caused by human activities that affects both living and non-living environmental components in a velocity and intensity as never seen before. Additionally, the lack of a shared scientific and technological knowledge combined with the fact that people are not participants or creators of content, result in a passive condition where these fields are centralized on a small group that in general ignores the social realities.
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In light of these scenarios, fractaL purposes an integrative perspective focused on the ecological issues and the use of free-open technologies as tools for learning, practices and applications of knowledge on environmental research. Built up by an interdisciplinary group, fractaL aims to open up new ways using a complementary approach of numbers (environmental data) with the uncountable (synesthesia using the fractal principles) in which cognitive aspects are activated, and where critical thinking and knowledge are put in practice.
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Considering these, fractaL choose to base its code on Python and use the concept of fractal geometry, defined by the spatial heterogeneity, complexity at different scales. This “roughness” that is characteristic in natural structures is far from the smooth structures and shapes created by human and has revolutionized not only mathematics, but also ecology and environmental studies because attempted to understand chaotic and unpredictable processes that has reached an unprecedented capability to explain more complex and systemic issues once constrained by classical Euclidean paradigms. These contributions to ecological studies is used as the base to the synesthetic methods and artistic tools in order to bring the ecological studies to a broad audience, as well as to provide a solid tool for researchers to improve their skills in Python. |
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Considering these, fractaL choose to base its code on Python and use the concept of fractal geometry, defined by the spatial heterogeneity, complexity at different scales. This “roughness” that is characteristic in natural structures is far from the smooth structures and shapes created by human and has revolutionized not only mathematics, but also ecology and environmental studies because attempted to understand chaotic and unpredictable processes that has reached an unprecedented capability to explain more complex and systemic issues once constrained by classical Euclidean paradigms. These contributions to ecological studies is used as the base to the synesthetic methods and artistic tools in order to bring the ecological studies to a broad audience, as well as to provide a solid tool for researchers to improve their skills in Python. |