How new conceptions of human-environment interaction became central
to design theories and practices in the 1970s At the end of the
1960s, new models of responsiveness between humans and their
environments had a profound impact on theories and practices in
architecture, design, art, technology, media, and the sciences. The
resulting initiatives-design philosophies, art installations,
architectural projects, exhibitions, publications, and
symposia-sought to bring together insights from biology, systems
theory, psychology, and anthropology with modernist legacies of
total design. In The Responsive Environment, Larry D. Busbea takes
up this concept of environment as an object and method of design at
the height of its aesthetic, technical, and discursive elaboration.
Exploring emerging paradigms of environmental perception,
patterning, and control as developed by Gregory Bateson, Edward T.
Hall, Wolf Hilbertz, Gyoergy Kepes, Marshall McLuhan, Nicholas
Negroponte, Paolo Soleri, and others, he shows how living space
itself was reimagined as a domain capable of modification through
input from its newly sensitized inhabitants. The Responsive
Environment intercuts the development of new ideas about
environmental awareness with case studies of specific architecture
and design projects for responsive environments. Throughout, Busbea
connects these theories and practices to the contemporary obsession
with "smart" things: responsive technologies, intelligent
environments, biomimetic materials, and digital atmospherics.
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