媒介环境学创始人帕特里克·格迪斯思想及学科贡献探赜

On Patrick Geddes' s Ideology and His Academic Contribution

"人类生态学之父"帕特里克·格迪斯是媒介环境学的创始人、先驱和奠基人。格迪斯持有知识分子应该行动、学以致用于社会实践的观点,他最早研究自然、人造环境及人类文化的相互关系,视人和城市为有机生命体,开启了环境与人类文明相连研究的生态视角,提出了具有媒介环境学意味的研究视角。格迪斯影响了整体媒介环境学,影响了一群强调道德关怀的芒福德、英尼斯、麦克卢汉等媒介环境学者。

As the Father of Human Ecology, Patrick Geddes was the founder and pioneer of Media Ecology. Geddes held the opinion that intellectuals should act and apply their knowledge into social practice. It is Geddes that initially studied the correlation between nature, artificial environment and human culture. In addition, he took human and cities as living organisms in his research, thus creating a new ecological perspective of human civilization connected to environment, and a research perspective of Media Ecology as well. As a consequence, Geddes’ ideology affected the whole field of media ecology and a group of media ecology scholars who emphasize moral care such as Lewis Mumford, Harold Innis, Marshall Mcluhan and Neil Postman.