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A handbook for navigating our troubled and precarious times
intended to help readers imagine and make their world anew. In
search of new knowledge practices that can help us make the world
livable again, this book takes the reader on a journey across
time-from the deep past to the unfolding future. The authors search
beyond human knowledge to establish negotiated partnerships with
forms of knowledge within the planet itself, examining how we have
manipulated these historically through an anthropocentric focus.
The book explores the many different kinds of knowledge, and the
diversity of instruments needed to invoke and actuate the potency
of human and nonhuman agencies. Four key phases in our ways of
knowing are identified: material, strengthening, reconfiguring and
extending, which are exemplified through case studies that take the
form of worlding experiments. This pioneering work will inspire
architects, artists and designers as well as students, teachers and
researchers across arts and design disciplines.
A handbook for navigating our troubled and precarious times
intended to help readers imagine and make their world anew. In
search of new knowledge practices that can help us make the world
livable again, this book takes the reader on a journey across
time-from the deep past to the unfolding future. The authors search
beyond human knowledge to establish negotiated partnerships with
forms of knowledge within the planet itself, examining how we have
manipulated these historically through an anthropocentric focus.
The book explores the many different kinds of knowledge, and the
diversity of instruments needed to invoke and actuate the potency
of human and nonhuman agencies. Four key phases in our ways of
knowing are identified: material, strengthening, reconfiguring and
extending, which are exemplified through case studies that take the
form of worlding experiments. This pioneering work will inspire
architects, artists and designers as well as students, teachers and
researchers across arts and design disciplines.
In this ground-breaking book, the first to provide an overview of
the theory and practice of experimental architecture, Rachel
Armstrong explores how interdisciplinary, design-led research
practices are beginning to redefine the possibilities of
architecture as a profession. Drawing on experts from disciplines
as varied as information technology, mathematics, poetry, graphic
design, scenography, bacteriology, marine applied science and
robotics, Professor Armstrong delineates original, cutting-edge
architectural experiments through essays, quotes, poetry, equations
and stories. Written by an acknowledged pioneer of architectural
experiment, this visionary book is ideal for students and
researchers wishing to engage in experimental, practice-based
architectural and artistic research. It introduces radical new
ideas about architecture and provides ideas and inspiration which
students and researchers can apply in their own work and proposals,
while practitioners can draw on it to transform their creative
assumptions and develop thereby a distinctive "edge" to stand out
in a highly competitive profession.
In this ground-breaking book, the first to provide an overview of
the theory and practice of experimental architecture, Rachel
Armstrong explores how interdisciplinary, design-led research
practices are beginning to redefine the possibilities of
architecture as a profession. Drawing on experts from disciplines
as varied as information technology, mathematics, poetry, graphic
design, scenography, bacteriology, marine applied science and
robotics, Professor Armstrong delineates original, cutting-edge
architectural experiments through essays, quotes, poetry, equations
and stories. Written by an acknowledged pioneer of architectural
experiment, this visionary book is ideal for students and
researchers wishing to engage in experimental, practice-based
architectural and artistic research. It introduces radical new
ideas about architecture and provides ideas and inspiration which
students and researchers can apply in their own work and proposals,
while practitioners can draw on it to transform their creative
assumptions and develop thereby a distinctive "edge" to stand out
in a highly competitive profession.
Our relationship with our homes changed in 2020 when the pandemic
known as Covid-19 led to enforced periods of self-isolation, called
'lockdown'. We got to know our living spaces intimately and learned
the greatest risk of infection was indoors through the breath we
shared in poorly ventilated spaces, where microbial atmospheres
could work their way inside, through every door, window and with
every visitor. Our fear of such invisible threats will persist long
after the pandemic ends and reflects a growing divide between the
human and the microbial realm. This book examines the notion of the
home in the context of the pandemic and lockdown, as they relate to
environmental concerns and how we live with viruses and bacteria.
It argues that, in order to decrease our vulnerability to infective
agents, we need to acknowledge the link between people, space,
daily routines and microbes and explore how the predominantly
benign microbial world might be harnessed to combat and boost our
immunity to future pathogens. Suggesting more than environmental
home improvements, it explores new innovations and new materials
which incorporate microbes for more ecological designs, such as
ceramic tiles, concrete bio-receptive surfaces, building skins,
fabrics, waste management and alternative energy supplies. A series
of drawings which reveal the evolution of microbial technologies,
infrastructures, spaces, dwellings, and architectures sets out a
prototype for an ecological home for post pandemic times.
Identifying the lessons that COVID-19 has brought us, the book
highlights the need for humans to consider and take microbes into
account in future built environments.
As space ventures have become more numerous, leading scientists and
theorists have offered ways of building a living habitat in a
hostile environment, taking an 'ecosystems' view of space
colonization. The contributors to this volume take a radical
multi-disciplinary view of the challenge of human space
colonization through the ongoing project Persephone. This book
fundamentally challenges prevalent ideas about sustainability and
proposes a new approach to resource austerity and conservation and
providing truly sustainable approaches that are life-promoting.
Readers will learn the details of the plans for Persephone - a real
project that is part of the company Icarus Interstellar's plans for
the design and engineering of a living interior on a worldship to
be constructed in Earth's orbit within 100 years. Although the
timeframe itself is only an estimate, since it is contingent on
many significant developments, including funding and technological
advances, the industry consensus is that within 100 years we will
see manned space exploration beyond our solar system. This notion
is shared by organizations such as the Initiative for Interstellar
Studies and the DARPA-funded 100-year starship project. This book
specifically develops the principles for the construction of a
living habitat within a worldship - a multi-generational starship
that contains its own world that supports colonists as it travels
across great distances between stars at a speed much slower than
light. Far from being a sterile industrial setup, such as the ISS,
or even being a bucolic suburbia as proposed by Gerard O'Neill in
the 1970s, this worldship will provide the pre-conditions for
sustaining life beyond Earth's environment, which may also lead to
the evolution of non-terrestrial ecologies. Drawing on the
principles of ecopoiesis and insights offered by the Biosphere 2
experiment that demonstrated what we have to learn about ecosystem
construction, this book proposes first designing the soils of such
a space. It should then be possible to set up the conditions that a
first generation of colonists may experience in leaving our solar
system to find new worlds to settle - perhaps in spreading life
throughout the universe. Although the book takes a unique view of
ecology and sustainability within the setting of a traveling
starship it is equally concerned with the human experience on
artificial worlds. Chapters come from a range of multi disciplinary
thinkers who shed light on the brave new future ahead from
different angles.
Soft Living Architecture explores the invention of new
architectures based on living processes. It crafts a unique
intersection between two fast-developing disciplines: biomimicry
and biodesign in architecture, and bioinformatics and natural
computing in the natural sciences. This is the first book to
examine both the theory and methodology of architecture and design
working directly with the natural world. It explores a range of
approaches from the use of life-like systems in building design to
the employment of actual growing and living cell and tissue
cultures as architectural materials - creating architecture that
can change, learn and grow with us. The use of 'living
architecture' is cutting-edge and speculative, yet it is also
inspiring a growing number of designers worldwide to adopt
alternative perspectives on sustainability and environmental
design. The book examines the ethical and theoretical issues
arising alongside case-studies of experimental practice, to explore
what we mean by 'natural' in the Anthropocene, and raise deep
questions about the nature of design and the design of nature. This
provocative and at times controversial book shows why it will
become ever more necessary to embrace living processes in
architecture if we are to thrive in a sustainable future.
The arrival of your newest addition is almost here Help prepare
your older child to welcome a new sibling by reading "When Mommy
Has Our Baby" together in the final weeks of your pregnancy. This
sweet, whimsical book provides you with an opportunity to address
the upcoming separation from your child when you go to have your
baby. Prepare your child for the birth by talking about where you
will go when it's time to have the baby, who will stay with your
child while you are gone, and how it will be different when the
baby comes home. You will also learn simple tools to stay connected
with your child while you are apart. A new baby is cause for a
celebration, but your older child may not feel that way This book
validates your child's feelings and encourages him/her to talk
about and explore the big emotions that come along with this huge
life transition. "When Mommy Has Our Baby" is the perfect way to
make this uncertain time feel more predictable and familiar as your
Big Kid becomes a Big Sib.
Soft Living Architecture explores the invention of new
architectures based on living processes. It crafts a unique
intersection between two fast-developing disciplines: biomimicry
and biodesign in architecture, and bioinformatics and natural
computing in the natural sciences. This is the first book to
examine both the theory and methodology of architecture and design
working directly with the natural world. It explores a range of
approaches from the use of life-like systems in building design to
the employment of actual growing and living cell and tissue
cultures as architectural materials - creating architecture that
can change, learn and grow with us. The use of 'living
architecture' is cutting-edge and speculative, yet it is also
inspiring a growing number of designers worldwide to adopt
alternative perspectives on sustainability and environmental
design. The book examines the ethical and theoretical issues
arising alongside case-studies of experimental practice, to explore
what we mean by 'natural' in the Anthropocene, and raise deep
questions about the nature of design and the design of nature. This
provocative and at times controversial book shows why it will
become ever more necessary to embrace living processes in
architecture if we are to thrive in a sustainable future.
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