This realisation did not come to me only in relation to the current frankfurt masterplan discussion, actualy coincidentaly a few days earlier, eventhought the unraveling of the realisation started even earlier.
Without being able to name the exact date, I do remember around one and a half decades ago, how I saw a documentary on the make over of the zoos of fuengirola and valencia and how they sold the new concept as the future of zoos and all I could say was that they managed to captivate me with the outlook. Then I genuienly believed that this would be the future of zoos. The documentary did not just feature animations of the transition but showed how gradualy the old parks developed into landscapes I at that age could not even believe to be possible. One of the most intrusive memories was the scene of the community enclosure of a diurnal malayan tapir and a nocturnal binturong.
In no way do I want to claim that interacting with online material can in any way replace the in person experience, but I noticed a shift in my perception of the concept over time. The more I learned about different zoologic institutions, the history, the natural enviorment the species hail from, the more I found that these two parks felt like a theme park whilst other institutions, even those I had not visited in person both ever since but some also not then but later on and the impression at least in my memory seemed to match most of the time, felt more scientific more like a professional institution.
What selfspeakingly does not equate to me thinking they would not be professional, but that I felt as if they failed to create an atmosphere that would at least later on develop into a more thoughtfull interaction with the entire matter. There are parks that have mixed species and created a sort of cultural adaptation, yet did I feel as if these species happened to still have something in common so that I could find an educational value in their presentation. Neither valencia nor fuengorila even seem to keep any species from different parts of the earth together. Think what I mean but struggle to properly capture in words is that other parks sparked a passion for the species, started an inner conversation, thoughts over what the species mean to their enviorment, how they developed and related stuff.
Felt as if these parks with often stunning visuals created a sort of passivity or shifted everything into a sphere that the others zoos did not get processed in and therefor felt so cut off.
Touristy. Artificial there can be lots of plants and rock recontructions underwater views colourfull soils but I cant shake the feeling of disconnect.
Mean they are not the only ones there are other parks that also did not feel truely scientific, but in those cases they did not had too much promising aspects either so that I rather wrote them off entirely like dolfinarium harderwijk.
No idea if anybody can even relate in the slightest but at least I tried to maybe give voice to a state of mind, idk.
Without being able to name the exact date, I do remember around one and a half decades ago, how I saw a documentary on the make over of the zoos of fuengirola and valencia and how they sold the new concept as the future of zoos and all I could say was that they managed to captivate me with the outlook. Then I genuienly believed that this would be the future of zoos. The documentary did not just feature animations of the transition but showed how gradualy the old parks developed into landscapes I at that age could not even believe to be possible. One of the most intrusive memories was the scene of the community enclosure of a diurnal malayan tapir and a nocturnal binturong.
In no way do I want to claim that interacting with online material can in any way replace the in person experience, but I noticed a shift in my perception of the concept over time. The more I learned about different zoologic institutions, the history, the natural enviorment the species hail from, the more I found that these two parks felt like a theme park whilst other institutions, even those I had not visited in person both ever since but some also not then but later on and the impression at least in my memory seemed to match most of the time, felt more scientific more like a professional institution.
What selfspeakingly does not equate to me thinking they would not be professional, but that I felt as if they failed to create an atmosphere that would at least later on develop into a more thoughtfull interaction with the entire matter. There are parks that have mixed species and created a sort of cultural adaptation, yet did I feel as if these species happened to still have something in common so that I could find an educational value in their presentation. Neither valencia nor fuengorila even seem to keep any species from different parts of the earth together. Think what I mean but struggle to properly capture in words is that other parks sparked a passion for the species, started an inner conversation, thoughts over what the species mean to their enviorment, how they developed and related stuff.
Felt as if these parks with often stunning visuals created a sort of passivity or shifted everything into a sphere that the others zoos did not get processed in and therefor felt so cut off.
Touristy. Artificial there can be lots of plants and rock recontructions underwater views colourfull soils but I cant shake the feeling of disconnect.
Mean they are not the only ones there are other parks that also did not feel truely scientific, but in those cases they did not had too much promising aspects either so that I rather wrote them off entirely like dolfinarium harderwijk.
No idea if anybody can even relate in the slightest but at least I tried to maybe give voice to a state of mind, idk.