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Ecologies of Inception - Design Potentials on a Warming Planet (Paperback)
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Ecologies of Inception - Design Potentials on a Warming Planet (Paperback)
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Responding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste
generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse,
Ecologies of Inception re-thinks potentiality-an object's ability
to change-in architecture and design. The book problematizes the
still-prevailing modern paradigm of design practice: the technical
tabula rasa, a tendency to begin from scratch and use raw,
amorphous, and obedient materials that can be easily and
effectively manipulated, facilitating a seamless and faithful
embodiment of intentions. Instead, the philosophy of design
developed in the text prompts-through a variety of case studies,
thinkers, and disciplines-a collective reconsideration of value,
dissociating it from the projects and signatures of any one author
or generation. Whereas the merits of up-cycling and circular design
are canonically defined vis-a-vis status-quo economic and
socio-cultural orthodoxies, this project unpacks the theoretical
assumptions that underpin these practices, showing that they
perpetuate the same biases and exclusions that generate waste in
the first place. As an alternative, the book introduces a nodal and
exaptive paradigm for design: a conceptual and methodological
toolset for engaging the durational and anthropocenic materiality
of the third millennium, and for radically prioritizing practices
of maintenance, reuse, care, and co-option. This approach, which is
inspired by (and builds upon) evolutionary biology, technological
disobedience, queer use, adaptive reuse, experimental preservation,
and improvisational practices such as collage, adhocism, bricolage,
and kit-bashing, refuses to reduce pre-existing material substrates
to abstract lists of properties or featureless lumps, encountering
them on their own terms-as situated individuals and co-authors.
Ecologies of Inception will appeal to undergraduate and
postgraduate students, educators, and professional architects and
designers interested in sustainable design and seeking to develop
conceptual and design tools commensurate with the magnitude and
urgency of the climate emergency.
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