BioDiveIn Prototype Launch

Dear Colleagues, Friends,

We would hereby like to invite you to our prototype opening. The prototype was achieved through experimental design studio teaching and codesigned with multiple stakeholders. BioDiveIn offers multiple habitats, feeding and water stations to bats, a variety of birds, squirrels and insects. We will have a lot of fun with gardening on the lifting platform. There will be a live band and catering from Maritim Hotel! You are all most welcome. Save the date for the 18th of April, at 15 o’clock. If you cannot make it so early, don’t worry. We will be gardening until evening. Please, let us know if you are coming.

Project and Studio Lead: Marie Davidová – SOWI

Research Associates – Hanane Behnam, Maria Claudia Valverde – SOWI

Ecosystem Consultancy: Leonie K Fischer – Institute of Landscape Planning and Ecology

Wood Workshop Consultancy: Michael Schneider and Philip Duncan – Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism

Students: Thomas Fadini, Jannis Haueise, Adriana Hauke, Valentina Ferrari, Ana Patricia Ros, Nadja Vujovic, Samuel Knutelsky, Olga Wosiak, Marcelo Candìa – Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism

Please, test our DIY here!

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DIY BioDiveIn Workshop at Dillmann-Gymnasium

On Monday and Tuesday, we tested our DIY with Dillmann-Gymnasium students in our neighbourhood. We had a lot of fun! We also tested it is not so difficult to produce the modules for 12/13 years old students. Please, test our DIY here!

Hands-on Monday Workshop (Photo: Benham 2023)

Seidenstrasse Installation Site Visit (Photo: Benham 2023)

Swift Box Installation (Photo: Benham 2023)

Modules Preparation – Insect Hotel and Plant Pot (Photo: Benham 2023)

Swift Box Installation (Photo: Benham 2023)

Plant Pots, Feeding and Water Stations installation (Photo: Benham 2023)

The work has been developed by the fantastic students of the University of Stuttgart: Adriana Hauke, Ana Patricia Ros Agulló, Jannis Haueise, Marcelo José Candía Cervantes, Matei Florescu, Nadja Vujović, Olga Wosiak, Samuel Knutelský, Thomas Fadini, Valentina Ferrari, and the Author of the DIY manual: Samuel Knutelský

Supervisor: Dr. Marie Davidová | MArch MNAL Ph.D. SFHEA
Tutor: Maria Claudia Valverde | B. Arch M.Sc | Doctoral Researcher
Hanane Behnam | B. Arch M.Sc | Doctoral Researcher

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BioDiveIn – DIY

We are happy to introduce COLive’s new installation BioDiveIn! This urban biodiversity intervention offers habitats and edible landscapes to multiple species, such as bats, swifts, small-sized birds, insects and plants. The wall we installed offers both dwellings and feeding and water pools. Please, Come by Seidenstrasse 36 in Stuttgart to check, Or just do it yourself with our DIY recipes! The work has been developed by the fantastic students of the University of Stuttgart: Adriana Hauke, Ana Patricia Ros Agulló, Jannis Haueise, Marcelo José Candía Cervantes, Matei Florescu, Nadja Vujović, Olga Wosiak, Samuel Knutelský, Thomas Fadini, Valentina Ferrari, and the Author of the DIY manual: Samuel Knutelský

Supervisor: Dr. Marie Davidová | MArch MNAL Ph.D. SFHEA
Tutor: Maria Claudia Valverde | B. Arch M.Sc | Doctoral Researcher
Hanane Behnam | B. Arch M.Sc | Doctoral Researcher

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Please, join our opening on the 18th of April at 15 o’clock with a bit fancy gardening event on the moving platform!

Please, download the PDF for DIY here.

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Birger Sevaldson: Designing Complexity: The Methodology and Practice of Systems Oriented Design

This book addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time: How can we design for, with, and in service of the complex world we live in? How can we be useful as designers in a rapidly changing world due to technological, political, and social processes, as well as climate change and nature destruction?

Designers have some benefi cial skills for planning with complex systems in mind, yet some old habits need to be overcome. Design’s traditional purpose and role has been to solve problems, fi nd order, organize, and simplify. Yet, the concept of designing complexity goes against these established beliefs because complexity cannot be designed away. So, instead, we present ways to live with, infl uence, and benefi t from complex systems.

There is no one “right” way presented in this book. Instead, many experiences, approaches, and perspectives are collected and presented. The process this book offers is a methodology called Systems Oriented Design (SOD). SOD is a design methodology and practice primarily geared toward understanding and working with complex systems. Several systems theories infl uence it, yet it remains true to its origin, the core of designing. SOD is a living and adaptable methodology. Though it is based on design thinking and design methodology, it is easily adapted and applied by anybody working with complex change processes.

Author Bio:

Birger Sevaldson is professor at AHO – Oslo.

He is a researcher and educator who focuses on design for complexity. He has defi ned Systems Oriented Design as a method engaging with complex systems. He was the founder of the RSD symposia and co-founder of the Systemic Design Association.

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Lecture: MultiCentered Design Pedagogy

Dr Marie Davidová gave a lecture at the Symposium on Pedagogy for Change in Lahore, Pakistan, organised by the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Beaconhouse National University & Institute of Architects, Pakistan – IAP, Lahore, Pakistan. The lecture focused on multi-centred design pedagogy using systemic design. It explained the principles of gigamapping and minimapping in finding synergetic design. The lecture also covered participatory design methodologies of using mobile applications with built-in DIY recipes.

Please, see the full list of speakers here:

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Talk: Systemic Thinking in Urban and Architectural Design

Dr Marie Davidová gave a guest lecture at the SOS – School of Sustainability. The lecture focuses on the transition of urban environments towards the Post-Anthropocene, where people, other species and technology live together in harmony. It covers the discussion on how specific urban interventions can support biodiversity through social, environmental and technological interaction. It discusses prototypical urban interventions and their DIY recipes and the generation of appreciation and value of the ecosystem through social systems, artificial intelligence and tokenised economy.

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Talk: The Real Life CoDesign Laboratory

If you speak Czech, please, see my today lecture for the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, talking on #colife.

The lecture covers the discussion on how specific urban typologies can support biodiversity through social, environmental and technological interaction. It discusses prototypical urban interventions and their DIY recipes and generation of appreciation and value of ecosystem through social systems, artificial intelligence and tokenised economy.

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COLife CoDesign Workshops with Community and Experts

Dear All,

We would like to invite you to a codesign workshop for COLife project RP29-1. If you are receiving this invitation, you were identified as a potential stakeholder. For the project explanation, please, scroll down. Please, confirm or reject your attendance.


The aim of RP 29-1 is to develop, test and evaluate the below listed codesign methodologies aimed at social and environmental change for the newly envisioned Post-Anthropocene era, where humans and other species live together in synergy. This will be developed for urban environments through architectural building adaptations. With a more-than-human approach, we will real-life participate in codesign of an urban ecosystem through architectural prototypical urban interventions. These interventions will be both prototyped and tested in a ‘real-life codesign laboratory’. The prototype means a design artefact that will be tested for its performance. In this case, our prototypes’ performance will focus on the creation of more-than-human habitats and edible landscapes. The real-life codesign laboratory is a non-reductionist laboratory that integrates the complexity of real life rather than reducing the environment into separated particles and enclosed sterile environments. The methodologies of codesigning the real-life environment will consist of 1. gigamapping – a cocreation tool for multicentred perspective with related stakeholders and community; 2. small size full-scale prototyping – realisation of the cocreated prototypes and their placement into the real-life situations on architectural buildings; 3. Community events and DIY recipes for community engagement, thus the project becomes generative. It reproduces and thus cocreates connectivity (biocorridors) across the city; 4. Evaluation – the social and the ecosystem performance – the public engagement data statistics analysis based on social media as well as DIY recipes reproduction as well as the healthy biotopes ecosystem data (an annual ecological study). We are recently experiencing the 6th Mass Extinction. The urban environment plays a critical role in its mitigation. Many species are recently adapting to life in cities, offering them better conditions than by pesticides, herbicides, etc. poisoned agricultural land. For many species, cities are located on crucial migration paths, as they are typically founded on rivers. Therefore, the urban ecosystem is critical to the overall biodiversity of the planet. However, our cities were not designed for the such coliving situation. To generate environmental change, one needs to achieve social change and vice versa. Therefore, new approaches need to be developed in this field.

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COLife – StudioPresentation

The transdisciplinary studio course at the University of Stuttgart will be held between the programs of Masterplanning and Participation and Architecture and Urban Planning. It will focus on codesign of architectural adaptations for support of urban biodiversity with a more-than-human perspective. This ‘systemic design’ studio will be based on teamwork where every student will take their role based on their background. The adaptations will be physically prototyped and placed in the real-life environment as ‘prototypical urban interventions.’ This will enable real-life reflection. The responsive wood concept will be used to support multispecies habitats and edible landscapes. We will engage with multiple stakeholders through codesign workshops, DIY recipes of the adaptations, public events and gamification. The students will gain a practical understanding of systemic design and codesign methodologies. They will also gain a practical understanding of how to define their role in codesign based on their background and interest. They will achieve hands-on experience with full-scale prototyping and prototypes’ placement into a real-life environment.

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POL-AI Prototype Launch

We launched our POL-AI prototype on the 11th of July, at 18 o’clock! Come to see it in Seidenstrasse 36. The launch involved the prototype introduction, catering by neighbouring Maritim hotel as sponsorship and CLIWAX-SI dance performance by Tegest Pecht-Guido, Alec de Bruyn in cooperation with Miroslav Kochánek and the support from Backsteinhaus produktion.

POL-AI is a responsive wood insect hotel with its own pollinator garden. It is using image recognition for registering the pollination of the pollinators to assign the value of their performance. The prototype is the result of Marie Davidová’s Ramp-Up project ‘COLife’ at the Cluster of Excellence IntCDC at the University of Stuttgart.

Design: Marie Davidová, Martha Teye, Mariah Guimaraes di Stasi – SOWI

Ecosystem Consultancy: Leonie K Fischer – Institute of Landscape Planning and Ecology, Mike Thiv – State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart and KomBioTa

Digital Fabrication Consultancy: Tobias Schwinn – ICD Grasshopper Consultancy: Zuardin Akkbar – ICD, Šimon Prokop – MOLAB, FA CTU in Prague, Lasath Siriwardena – ICD

Structural Consultancy: Gregor Neubauer – ITKE

Student Assistants: Mengxi He, Harrison Hildebrandt, Wai Man Chau, Alexandra, Pelin Asa, Chien Chun Kuo – ITECH

Students: Emilija Blagojevic, Robin Hillebrecht, Theresa Hillemanns, Maren Schaal, Marcel Spielvogel – Architecture and Urbanplanning and Masterplanning and Participation

CoDesign: Leonie K Ficher, Dylan Wood, Matthias Maier, Waltraud Zeller

Photos: Gordon Koelmel

Video: Martha Teye

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POL-AI Prototype Launch

Dear All,

I am very happy to invite you to our prototype opening. Please, come and enjoy yourself with us with a glass of wine and the dance performance! Please, confirm if you are coming so that we know how much catering we need.

We are launching our POL-AI prototype on the 11th of July, at 18 o’clock! Come to Seidenstrasse 36 to see our ecosystemic urban intervention. The launch will involve the prototype introduction, catering by neighbouring Maritim hotel as a sponsorship and CLIWAX-SI dance performance by Tegest Pecht-Guido, Alec de Bruyn in cooperation with Miroslav Kochánek and the support from Backsteinhaus produktion.

POL-AI is a responsive wood insect hotel with its own pollinator garden. It is using image recognition for registering the pollination of the pollinators to assign the value of their performance.

Design: Marie Davidová, Martha Teye, Mariah Guimaraes di Stasi – SOWI

Ecosystem Consultancy: Leonie K Fischer – Institute of Landscape Planning and Ecology, Mike Thiv – State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart and KomBioTa

Digital Fabrication Consultancy: Tobias Schwinn – ICD

Grasshopper Consultancy: Zuardin Akkbar – ICD, Šimon Prokop – MOLAB, FA CTU in Prague, Lasath Siriwardena – ICD

Structural Consultancy: Gregor Neubauer – ITKE

Student Assistants: Mengxi He, Harrison Hildebrandt, Wai Man Chau, Alexandra, Pelin Asa, Chien Chun Kuo – ITECH

Students: Emilija Blagojevic, Robin Hillebrecht, Theresa Hillemanns, Maren Schaal, Marcel Spielvogel – Architecture and Urbanplanning and Masterplanning and Participation

CoDesign: Leonie K Ficher, Dylan Wood, Matthias Maier, Waltraud Zeller

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Call for Articles! Special Issue “Exploring the Connection between Digital Communities, Sustainability and Citizen Science” – Sustainability (MDPI)

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of the journal will focus on the connection that exists between digital communities, sustainability, and citizen science. The three way relationships between people, places (digital or physical) and means (tools) will be questioned and brought to the forefront.

Digital innovation has recently accelerated rapidly and is constantly creating new avenues of what we can call industrial revolutions through game changing opportunities and capabilities to transform industries, occupations, relationships, and social norms. Diverse communities are brought together by specific common interests, forming virtual groups at an unprecedented rate. This does naturally lead to more inclusive societies. Diversity, advances, and rapid change often from grassroots approaches but can also lead to challenges. These challenges manifest in the form of security, organizational inequality, privacy, scalability, and even politics, to name a few. Harnessing the knowledge of the past and cross-examining state of the art research producing a transparent principles-led approach can lead to responsible, scalable, and sustainable innovation.

Digital culture and communities will be brought to the forefront in this Special Issue. At the heart of the digital transformation is that of representation of the person and the people, their values, and the reasons why we do what we do. Without need or want for creating (Yana Boeva, Peter Troxler. Makers. Handb. Peer Prod., Wiley; 2020, p. 225–37. https://doi.org/10.100/9781119537151.ch17) there is nothing to sustain. We aim to call for work that examines techniques like digitally supported alternative modes of collaboration and commerce for planetary care and custodianship (Kate Raworth. Doughnut economics: seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017). Technology, used within our digital communities, produces methods and tactics supporting community interaction (Chris Speed, Deborah Maxwell. Designing through value constellations. interactions 22.5 (2015): 38–43.) as well as giving our communities tremendous empowerment over traditional and established powerhouses. These empowerments produce disruptive abilities to communities that may influence sustainable trajections (André Betzer, Jan Philipp Harries. If He’s Still in, I’m Still in! How Reddit Posts Affect Gamestop Retail Trading. 2021). These types of advances include technologies, methods and tactics to support alternatives to ‘surveillance capitalism’ (Shoshana Zuboff. Surveillance capitalism and the challenge of collective action. New labor forum. Vol. 28. No. 1. Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA, USA, SAGE Publications, 2019). Furthermore, communities that would have otherwise been neglected or powerless can now be ethically sustained by champions acting on their behalf through integration into their own digital communities (Marie Davidová, Shanu Sharma, Dermott McMeel, Fernando Loizides. Co-De|GT: The gamification and tokenization of more-than-human qualities and values. Sustainability 2022, 14, 3787.).

It is because there is considerable uncertainty and lack of direction about what digital innovation means for people’s lives and those of future generations that we invite a Special Issue of the Sustainability journal exploring, through applied and theoretical constructs, the people, the places, and the means by which digital communities interact to create a sustainable future.

Dr. Fernando Loizides
Dr. Marie Davidová
Dr. Dermott McMeel
Dr. Shanu Sharma
Dr. Kathryn Jones
Guest Editors

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Deadline Extension and Transfer from Energies to Buildings

Dear All,

I am pleased to inform you that after the requests from some of you, the deadline for the special issue “Bioclimatic Layers of Built Environment” has been extended to 15th August 2022 (the new deadline is not yet published but agreed). While doing that, I was suggested to transfer the special issue from Energies to Buildings journal (both MDPI). Though Buildings have a bit lower impact than Energies, the journal is much more suitable for this special issue. Therefore I welcomed the offer.

Please, feel free to get in touch about the publishing!

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Integrated Eco-Synergetic Wood Design

We are participating in #girlsdday of the University of Stuttgart! The event will be organised by the team of Marie Davidová, consisting of Mariah Gimaraes di Stasi and Martha Teiko Teye together with the team of Serena Gamberelli. Stay tuned and register here!

The event will introduce how wood material science can support biodiversity in an urban environment. We will show how you can create advanced pollinators’ gardens and insect hotels on your balcony and how to monitor the pollinators pollinating in action. The event will cover hands-on citizen science mobile application and DIY kits. For this purpose please bring a laptop if available (participation is also possible without own laptop).

Im Workshop stellen wir euch vor, wie Holzwerkstoffkunde die biologische Vielfalt in einem städtischen Umfeld unterstützen können. Wir werden euch zeigen, wie ihr auf Ihrem Balkon moderne Bestäubergärten und Insektenhotels anlegen und Insekten bei der Bestäubung in Aktion beobachten könnt. Außerdem setzen wir praktische mobile Anwendungen für die Bürgerwissenschaft (also Apps mit denen auch Laien wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen durchführen können) und DIY-Kits ein. Hierfür wenn vorhanden bitte einen Laptop mitbringen (die Teilnahme ist auch ohne eigenen Laptop möglich).

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Marie Davidová for Bauhaus University of Weimar: The Real Life CoDesign Laboratory

The lecture will exemplify several case studies of cross-species and cross-intelligence codesign processes through the Real Life Codesign Laboratory. The Real Life CoDesign Laboratory does not cover final products. Instead, the prototypical interventions take place in real life and are codesigned and redesigned through real life in time based on cross-species or cross-intelligence feedback loops. As opposed to reductionist laboratory that aims to reduce the experiments into certain particular aspects, the real life codesign laboratory performs its processes within the complexity of real life within the real life environment. This results in complex adaptive systems that are responsive in real time to multiple agencies. Real Life CoDesign Laboratories are local and project specific, addressing their multi-layered and multi-scaled contexts. Therefore, these laboratories are non-reproducible. What is reproducible is only the methodological strategy.

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M. Davidová, S. Sharma, D. McMeel, F. Loizides: CO-DE|GT

This is a Relating Systems Thinking and Design 10 symposium paper presentation: CO-DE|GT: The 21st Century Economy App for CrossSpecies CoLiving. Please, read the paper here.

This work-in-progress paper is referring to the CO-DE|GT mobile application, that is being developed in the Synergetic Landscapes unit of the Master of Architectural Design at the Welsh School of Architecture in collaboration with the School for Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University, UK, the School of Architecture and Planning Bhopal, India and the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. This app is searching for synergy across an urban ecosystem. It intends to generate a sustainable, scalable token economy, where humans and non-humans play equal roles, earning, trading, and being paid for goods and services to test such potentials for future economies underpinned by blockchain. This work diverges from dominant economic models that do not recognize the performance of and the limits to material extraction from the ecosystem. As a result of such misconception, we are facing mass extinction, which necessarily leads to the collapse of such economic systems. Therefore, this work applies a systemic approach to urban environment performance for the future Post-Anthropocene communities and economies.

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Guest Talk: The Real Life CoDesign Laboratory

Marie Davidova will give a guest talk for the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar on 13th December 2021, at 11:00 CST. The talk will be online and anyone can access it here:

Topic: LECTURE 03: MARIE DAVIDOVATime: Dec 13, 2021 11:00 AM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, ViennaJoin Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85241062374?pwd=cGMweHhaMzhGVzNNSjlscWtzMjlGUT09Meeting ID: 852 4106 2374Passcode: 227591

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the Charette Competition: Alternate Realities

Marie Davidova was invited to join the jury of #theCharette‘s #competition ‘Alternate Realities’. Please, consider submission!

Excerpt from Design Brief:

“Does gravity exist? Do humans live on Earth? How far has #technology advanced? This competition exists in an alternate reality. Participants are required to design an #architectural response to an issue that the world is facing – #climatechange, #pandemics, #nuclearproliferation, #socialinequality, etc. This competition aims to explore wild design ideas and intends to spark a conversation regarding issues plaguing the world through design dialogue.”

Competition Page – https://thecharette.org/alternate-realities/

Last year’s results – https://thecharette.org/alternate-realities-2020-results/

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Hussa Alghunaim: Vermicompost

What:

This DIY recipe is for the creation of a willow vermicomposting system to be used by the members of the Grangetown community and beyond. The project is accessible in its design and can be created and used by most age groups and regardless of past experience in DIY projects.

The vermicomposting system which will be created will consist of a double-layered composter, featuring a compost collection layer at the bottom, and a worm and food-waste container at the top.

How:

To create the composter, the following materials are required:

  • Willow stalks in a range of thicknesses
    • Taller willow stalks are preferred.
    • The thick willow will be used for the base structure while the thinner stalks should be used as a weaving material.
    • Hazel could be used as an alternative to willow for the base structure.
  • Natural rope (i.e. hemp rope)
    • This will be used to secure some elements of the structure.
  • Perforated container for the top layer
    • This container can be weaved through willow, created with clay, or any recycled container could be used in its place.
  • Worms
    • Species such as Redworms and Red Wigglers are the most efficient to use for composting.
  • Shovels
    • Required to plant the willow.
  • Cutters
    • These will be used to trim any excess willow.
  • Water
    • Will be used in the end to water the willow.

The process of creating the composter is simple. A round hole (10-20cm deep) should be dug in the desired location of the composter. The diameter of the composter can be based on the required size of the composter.

After this, the willow stalks should be planted, with sufficient space apart to allow for the weaving stage. When the sticks are standing firmly in place. They should be collected at the top and tied together to create a ‘dome’ shape. When this is complete, the bottom compost collection basket can be weaved by alternating the willow towards the outside and the inside of the sticks in the base structure.

When this process is complete, a base for the top layer should be created, and finally, the container should be placed above this base along with the worms, some initial compost, and the food scraps. Newspaper or burlap can be used to cover this layer.

To maintain the composter, it should be watered adequately and frequently.

The composter should be created during the seasons of February – April as these are the seasons in which willow stalks can be planted and grown.

Why:

The project is a great way for human communities to co-create with worms and to gain more exposure to biocentric processes and lifestyles. It takes a direct and ‘hands-on’ approach towards the introduction of circular economy and synergetic living, and can help start dialogues about expanding urban biodiversity.

By using this instruction, you are agreeing in participating in Cardiff University research. Children under the age of 18 should request their parents’ assistance and/or agreement.

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Kai Huang: Vertical Park

What:

This video introduces a Voronoi shape structure that grows in an ecological way that will blur the boundary between indoor and outdoor, allowing more contact with plants, animals and kids.

The design chose natural materials, living willow and hibiscus.

Willow branches are very easy to survive and easily bend, providing structural stability and flexibility. Hibiscus has a flowering period of nearly four months to six months that gives interest to 

the structure.

How:

Step 1:

Making support structure

Material:

Dry willow branches

Step 2:

Making five voronoi shape one by one

Material:

Dry willow branches

Step 3:

Growing plants and grafting the plants follow the shape of structure

Material:

Living hibicus and willow

Step 4:

Remove the support part

Step 5:

Plant nurseries until

growing into dence and strong

Step 6:

Remove all supporting dry branches

Finally, it’s initially done by a year and it will growing into a “vertical park”year by year

Grasshopper instruction

After the introduction video for the DIY recipe, I made this video to show how to make a Voronoi structure and unfold it in Grasshopper. The logic is to create a Voronoi polygon array based on the dot matrix in the box space, form an intersection with the array with the curve simulating the behaviour of animals, then achieve the goal of harmony between the form and space through parameter adjustment and finally modify it into a smooth curve to simulate the growth state of plants in nature.

How to use RHINO & GRASSHOPPER

Download the rhino6/rhino7 any version available from the website.

Grasshopper is included by default.

Enter command: Grasshopper

Open the file gvpDIYrecipe.3dm in rhino, then open the gvpDIYrecipe.gh in Grasshopper.

Why:

In the field of reinventing the world, plant growth is clearly doing better for the environment than human construction activities. In the synergetic landscape practice, I entered a new realm: designing within biotechnological synergetic landscapes of cross-species co-living, following non-hierarchical models. This co-living involves the human species in shared co-existence and contribution amongst the other ones. This research focuses on the plants which can grow through geometric space design, and it’s integrated with the behaviour of the animal.

By using this instruction, you are agreeing in participating in Cardiff University research. Children under the age of 18 should request their parents’ assistance and/or agreement.

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Sun Jiayu: Hedgehog Shelter

What:

This prototype focuses on the hedgehog shelter. It is mainly used in community parks and residence gardens where hedgehogs appear. These shelters can provide hedgehogs with a safe living environment or temporary shelter. These shelters are all built with wooden sticks within reach. The whole shape is like a shell growing from the ground. Through the size of the frame, a tunnel that can avoid natural enemies is set up. The surrounding wooden sticks can also be removed or increased as the weather changes and covered with leaves in order to adapt to the climate of different seasons to ensure that the indoor temperature and ventilation can always reach the best state of hedgehog life. Above the entire installation is the land derived from the ground in order to integrate the whole into nature to achieve the effect of a shelter. On the other hand, similar to the roof garden, some plants that can attract insects can be planted to reach an area that provides natural food.

How:

This is the process of how to build such a prototype. The main materials used are branches of different lengths and ropes. The whole process is roughly divided into three steps: first, build each frame according to the designed size, then build fences and roof supports around the built frame, and finally move the soil to the roof frame. The following are the detailed steps of each step.

  1. Cut out wooden sticks of the suitable length according to the design, and cut out suitable joints where these sticks need to be connected.
  2. Use a rope to fix the joint of the wooden stick tightly.
  3. Choose a relatively hidden place, such as beside a tree, a bush, or a building. Then dig a hole with a depth of 60-100mm as a safe space for hedgehogs to live or hibernate.
  4. Fix each frame to the ground according to the shell shape of the design.
  5. Use ropes to arrange the branches and link them with each frame to form the entire roof frame.
  6. Use branches to fill the gaps between the frames to form a fence. At the same time, the number of branches can be adjusted according to different climates, or dead grass and dead leaves can be interspersed between branches to achieve the effect of heat preservation.
  7. Spread leaves on the roof frame, and then pave the soil on top. The overall thickness is about 50-60mm.
  8. After allowing the soil to adapt for a period of time, plant some plants that attract insects.

Why:

In recent years, the call for environmental protection has become higher, communities have indeed made a lot of progress in improving the environment, but the improvement of the entire environment also requires attention to the survival of individual species. As for hedgehogs, due to the improvement of the environment, the number of their natural enemies is also increasing, so the living environment of hedgehogs is not well protected. The data shows that it is indeed necessary to pay more attention to the survival of each species when the general environment becomes better to achieve a natural balance. On the other hand, such an activity to build a hedgehog shelter can also enhance the community’s awareness of environmental protection, and children can also get a certain education.

By using this instruction, you are agreeing in participating in Cardiff University research. Children under the age of 18 should request their parents’ assistance and/or agreement.

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Jiayang Jiang: Natural Shelter

What:

This video introduces a structure that can better protect wildlife in the city. It will provide a haven for the city’s wildlife, using natural and sustainable materials. Let the people in the community better protect the wildlife in the city. Natural materials are used throughout the design: wicker and cotton cord and wooden sticks. Willow branches are easy to get and survive in spring. The overall model follows the principle: structural stability, simplicity, and easy access to materials.

How:

  1. make a framework, Material:17 wood sticks.
  2. Make 4 holes in the ground, then put the framework in. Material: wood sticks
  3. Cut 14 willow branches to the same length as the frame. Material: willow branches
  4.  Insert the roots of the willow branches into the ground and tie them to the frame. Material: willow branches
  5.  Cover the hole with fertilizer, soil, and water it. Material: fertilizer
  6. The rope around the surface provides climbing space for the ivy. Material: rope, ivy
  7.  Attach the ivy to the rope. Material: rope, ivy
  8. Create a hole in the ground to put the roots of the ivy into the ground. Material: ivy
  9. Cover the hole with fertilizer, soil, and water it. Material: fertilizer

Why:

Nowadays, animals are facing many threats; human-made waste threatens their lives; the habitats of many animals are occupied by human beings and transformed into cities. In fact, there are many wild animals living in cities; they have trouble finding a safe place to live. The main reason is that the loss of habitat, it also illustrates the directly, human is one of the main factors that affect creatures, if there is no change, Species will disappear faster. To promote a better living together between people and wild animals, I put forward the concept of Natural shelter. They are using the concept of growing plants to create a sustainable natural shelter.

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Yuting Xie: Pixel Tree

What

Pixel tree is a cross-species edible landscape that provides a platform for humans, wildlife and plants to interact by providing food for humans, habitat for wildlife and growth structure for plants. It is a living structure with the advantages of modularity and flexibility. This video introduces how to build a pixel tree in Grange Garden.

How

The selected material is cutting willow branches because it contains rooting factors inside, which can be directly planted into the soil to survive. In addition, the rope is also needed to connect the branches. First, choose branches that are thick enough to build a stable frame, and insert them into the soil. Then use branches to build single polygonal boxes (as shown in the video) and assemble these single boxes into a Pixel Tree. After completing the construction of the structure, you need to choose suitable vine plants, which need to be local and seasonal species, such as cucumbers, grapes, etc. Finally, don’t forget to fertilize and water all the plants planted into the ground, including willow branches and vines, regularly.

Why

Residents are able to DIY the structure and enjoy the fruits, allowing them to rethink planting and encouraging them to participate. In order to support local biodiversity, this structure made of pure natural materials connects landscape design with the structure and function of the ecosystem to create a habitable community environment across species. Through being a part of the existing community with projects of other members, a sustainable community will be created.

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Ningjia Cui: Natural Feeder

What:

This is the NATURAL FEEDER

The main purpose of this project is to find a reasonable way to satisfy the self-sufficiency between wild animals and plants and serve as a medium to convey the need for ecological protection. This project studies how to provide natural food for insects and birds throughout the year, plans and designs edible landscapes, forms an ecological cycle and explores the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature. The project focuses on the study of how animals and plants form an ecological cycle and design interactive devices to increase the interaction between residents and nature. Other structures can be made according to the site’s size, and the simple structure is more conducive to encouraging the participation of residents.

How:

Tools: Willow branch, scissors, hemp rope

Step 1. Look for healthy willows. It is better to be thick because they can survive more stably.

Step 2. First of all, select the willow branches with uniform length (three as a group) and bind the triangle with hemp rope（7 groups) for the bottom.

Step 3. Next, choose two long willow branches to cross bind, and then choose a short willow branch to connect them at the top of the two willow branches. According to the video, bundle（5 groups). For the top.

Step 4. Bottom: take out four triangular willow branches. Tie the end to end to form a square.

Step 5. Bottom: take out the remaining triangular willow branches, put them in a vertical column inside the square, and bundle them according to the video.

Step 6. Bottom: select the willow branches with a uniform length (three branches as a group) and tie their head and tail, but do not encircle the triangle first（3 groups). According to the video, the unconnected part is inserted into the completed device and then bundled.

Step 7. Top: take out the willow branches that have been bundled and tie them above the bottom.

Step 8. Top: select two shorter willow branches to stabilize the top. Bundle according to the video.

Step 9. Digging, fertilizing and watering.

Step 10. Water the plant on time until the willows continue to survive and grow green leaves. You can look for branches with berries for grafting, for example, blackthorn, common hawthorn, Rowan, guide rose, holly, honeysuckle. They can attract insects and provide food for birds. Or Ivy can be chosen to provide a refuge for insects. At the same time, these insects also become food for birds.

Herbs can be planted at the bottom of the device, which can also be used to attract insects, such as caraway, fennel, common mint

Step 11. Grafting method: select branch grafting method

Tools: sharp cutting tools, branches with berries, strapping materials such as graft rubber or polyethene tape

Carry out grafting according to the following steps. (Note: remove everything growing under the grafting branch, except that the small leaves can be left behind)

Step 12. Water it to keep it alive

Why:

Wild bird feeding is one of the most common forms of interaction between humans and wild animals in the Western world. Traditionally, feeding is a winter activity, which may be to provide humanitarian assistance to malnourished birds during the harsh northern hemisphere season. This probably remains the predominant practice in many parts of the USA and UK, but it is now also commonly practised year‐round, with many feeders replenished daily throughout the year

Food is an essential means to promote the survival of wild birds in urban areas, which is very common. However, the food that people feed may have some effects on birds:

1.possibility that fed birds may become dependent on human‐provided foods

2.spread of diseases

3. impact of inappropriate or nutritionally inferior foods on avian health and survival

4. loss of foraging skills

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Tian Wang: A bird’s nest to withstand worsening temperatures

What:

This DIY prototype is designed to protect birds’ nests in the face of temperature changes caused by climate change. The raw materials are natural plants from nature, including tree branches, coconut shells, grass and dry leaves. Branches are used to fix the bird’s nest external contours and are more convenient to connect with the tree branches. In the middle, the grass is used to absorb excess moisture and provide warmth for the bird’s nest. The internal coconut shell is used for birds against high winds and to protect the birds from the sun. It insolates. On the inside, there are dry leaves used to provide a comfortable and dry internal environment for birds.

How:

Process:

1. Soak the collected branches overnight to soften them

2. Weave the already soft branches

3. First, find the three main branches and fix them in an intersecting way

4. The other branches wound themselves around the three branches, one up and one down

5. After weaving the shape, put the grass inside the prototype and start circling clockwise

6. Poke small holes in the bottom of the coconut shell for drainage

7. Then, put the dead leaves and grass inside the coconut shell

8. Tie the three parts together tightly with a twine

9. Leave enough twine on the outside to connect to the tree

10. Choose a tree of moderate height. Suspend the nest from the tree by winding it up from the bottom.

Why:

The greenhouse effect caused by climate change has also changed the weather in the UK, with extreme weather conditions such as sudden cold and hot spells occurring. The nest has chosen three tightly connected layers to guard against this problem, with the outermost branches being used to absorb excess water and solve some of the problems of excessive rain. The grass in the middle provides insulation for the birds and raises the temperature by covering the middle of the nest. The innermost coconut shell and dry leaves provide protection against the wind. Through these three parts, the nest is protected from climate change caused by rain, wind and sun exposure.

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Zheng Zhang: Garden EcoCafe

What:

This video is about the DIY recipe for Garden Eco Cafe. The Garden Eco Cafe is a prototype that consists of a space for sharing species into a wildlife-friendly location. All materials come from nature and are harmless to animals. Prototypes are made in a simple way and can be easily made by residents in the community. My prototype has two types of units, which respectively represent two basic functions. One is to provide a temporary shared space for animals, where they can find a natural feed. The other part is to provide protection and habitat for frogs and bugs.

How:

DIY Recipe process introduction:

1. Make the first type of unit. Use pruned branches to set a regular hexagonal frame on the ground as a base.

2. Holes large enough to plant saplings are dug in each of the six corners of the hexagonal frame.

3. Choose six 40-60cm willow saplings (20-30cm saplings can be used if you are making a smaller version) and plant them on each of the six corners of the regular hexagon. (Alternative tree species: sycamore and hibiscus. The video uses hibiscus.)

4. Fill the roots of the saplings with soil and make sure they are firm. Then cross the saplings clockwise or counterclockwise in the middle of the saplings.

5. From the top, ensure that the sapling intersections are located in the centre of the hexagonal base and remove the bark where the saplings are in contact so that the internal tissues are in direct contact creating conditions for Inosculation.

6. Wait for the seedlings to sprout (depending on the season, usually in the spring at the latest, or a week or two if fast), then connect the top parts of the branches with living branches to form a second base. At the contact point of the branches, part of the bark is cut off to allow the internal tissues to come into direct contact to form a graft.

7. Wait for the second layer grafting base to emit new buds and set the second layer structure in the same grafting technique as the first layer.

8. Make 4 hexagons using the same technique as making pedestals. Make another type of unit.

9.  The four hexagons are overlapped and fixed with twine.

10.  Place the hexagon on the ground. Lay a layer of deadwood and loose bark for flies, crawlies like beetles, centipedes, and woodlice, sticks or straw for ladybirds (they eat aphids) and other beetles. (Or Larger holes with stones and tiles, which provide the cool, Damp conditions in the air are frosted and toads like — if you put it in the centre, we will give them a frost-free place to spend the money Winter).

11. Lay a layer of moss on top of the first layer. (It is also possible to add stones to the moss, some animals prefer to be dry.)

12. Finally, dig holes in the outer corners of the hexagonal bases of the two types of units and plant the vine seeds that produce berries.

Why:

Nowadays, with the advance of urbanization, the urbanization rate is higher and higher, our cities are not so friendly to many animals. In fact, there are many species that try to live in cities, including animals, plants, and others. In general, human buildings are designed to keep out other creatures, and this isolation puts the species at risk. Disruption of the exchange of biological information will lead to the decline of biodiversity. However, designers are trying to create designs that can accommodate a variety of creatures. Through the study of Wildlife Friendly Garden, we can understand the problems and contradictions existing in the coexistence process of animals and humans, as well as the interest relations and conflicts between animals in the coexistence process. It is proposed that people can share many kinds of landscape devices in front and rear gardens. The content of my Garden Eco Cafe is also based on my research on the Wildlife Friendly Garden.

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Yuhan Ma: Swift House

What:

This video introduces a structure that is woven into a bird’s nest by using a complex technique. It will provide a comfortable bird’s nest for the Swifts who come to Cardiff from May to July every year, saving them the trouble of nesting Let the community and people better protect the Swifts, and let you know more about the Swifts to better protect them and thrive. Natural materials were chosen for the entire design: willow branches and cotton rope. Willow branches are very easy to pick in the spring, and are easier to bend after soaking in water, turning into various curved shapes, and will provide a very stable structure after air drying.

How:

1. Trim off the raised part of the branch to facilitate operation.

2. Cut 6 branches of the same length about 10-12cm long

3. Use a knife to cut a gap from the middle part of the cut branches and use the width of the knife to make the gap wider.

4. Fix the two thin triangles with cotton rope.

5. Select the two greenest, thinnest, and tenderest willow branches, insert them into the gap and wind them around the cross shape in different directions to stabilize the entire base.

6. Choose eight slightly thicker willow branches, and cut the head into a pointed, flat style to facilitate its insertion.

7. Then lift the eight thick branches together and adjust the angle and length.

8. After adjusting the angle and length after close together, wrap it with cotton rope and fix it.

9. Keep the appropriate length for later adjustment and cut off the excess branches.

10. To adjust the bird’s nest to a suitable curved shape, first, use the cotton rope to pass through the upper and lower bottoms and fix its shape.

11. Cut off all the protrusions on the branches that need to be wound so that the winding will not be obstructed.

12. Wrap the cut branches one by one around the eight main stems and fix them tightly to minimize their density.

13. Then repeat this action repeatedly.

14. Start making the entrance of the bird’s nest at an appropriate height, choose a position with a slightly larger gap, and leave an empty space between the two thick backbone branches. The entrance is about 3*4cm in size, not too big to prevent magpies, starlings, etc. enter.

15. After finishing the entrance, follow the initial method to continue winding upwards.

16. Finally, cut off the cotton rope that has a fixed shape inside the bird’s nest.

Why:

Swifts love to build nests on buildings, but as the number of old buildings suitable for nesting in the past is decreasing, and paint and other harmful substances are now also applied, there are fewer places where Swifts can build nests; insecticides make Swifts eat them the insects are also harmful. It is not only to protect the Swifts, increase people’s contact with the Swifts, and better understand them; but to awaken and call on people to protect nature and animals. What we design is not just a prototype, but people can better understand the spirit of the project. By using this instruction, you are agreeing in participating in Cardiff University research. Children under the age of 18 should request their parents’ assistance and/or agreement.

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Marie Davidová: Хататон 2.0 – Hacking the COVID Culture

This is a short motivational video by Marie Davidová for Hatathon 2.0: Hack the Culture by Goethe-Institut Ukraine, Digitizing.Space and House of Europe that takes place in Ukraine. She was asked to address the following questions:

‘What was the experience of transforming your activities during quarantine? What solutions have you found for yourself? Share the case of your project What is your vision on a post-pandemic future of your discipline? What will go, what will last, how will aesthetics, formats, business models have changed?’

Please, follow the event here.

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University Buildings and Experimental Environments Accounting for Future Matters of Concern and More-than-Human Needs

On Thursday, 24.06.2021 | 17:00 CET  Marie Davidová will take part in the discussion of #IntCDC Cluster of Excellence among Sampsa Hyysalo (Aalto University), Silke Langenberg (ETH Zürich).

Her provocative questions are:

‘Our human existence is inherently dependent on the overall ecosystem (biological and technological). This relates to our settlements, agriculture, technology, economy, wellbeing, generally, to all aspects of our life. However, the recent anthropocentrically designed models of those aspects do not seem to reflect on this fact. Therefore, we are facing Anthropocene Mass-Extinction and our models are collapsing. What if we start codesigning across the species and other entities more than human cities? An edible landscape for all? A BioTechnology that is in synergy with ecosystems? An economy, where also non-humans have a wallet? Overall wellbeing where nature and technology are not just services to get you high but also benefit and are in feedback looping conversations and interactions with you?’

Please see the details and link to the event here.

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Nels Long (RoTo): Gamifying Design, Designing Gamification: Excursions into Alternative Practice

In his Synergetic Landscapes unit guest lecture, Nels covers the basis of his experience in games as tools for developing the built environment and integrating with natural systems. This experience began with designing open-source board games for underserved community planning at CMPBS and lead to a Masters at SCI-Arc where the focus was gamifying systems for infrastructure development. Since graduating SCI-Arc, Nels has been continuing his research and developing with Michael Rotondi at RoTo architects where his interests in gamifying workflows has influenced real world projects such as Wolf Connection’s new wolf rescue and teen empowerment ranch. Nels and Michael have also taken on the software world developing virtual reality tools like Second Studio in house based on their needs and providing them open-source to the design community. Last semester at SCI-Arc Nels and Michael taught a studio that challenged the meaning of site with virtual placemaking that included alien ecosystems and non-native circulation. Throughout this studio the discussion centered on interaction with and circulation through virtual ecosystems. We will have the opportunity to play these games together and discuss the successes and failures of the projects. Nels Long is a designer, strategist and educator with a passion for projects that seek to improve the world through a relationship between technology and the built environment. As a Associate Principal at RoTo Architects, Nels has worked on projects at numerous scales from single family homes and commercial spaces, to large civic projects and masterplans. In many cases he has served as project manager from very early on in the project, providing entitlements, team selection, project scheduling, task coordination, and project delivery. In each project he seeks to expand the definition of practice through integration of technology and operational strategies. This approach to practice is the basis for founding RoTo Architects’ innovation lab, RotoLab. Through RotoLab Nels and Michael have founded companies that each focus on different aspects of the relationship between architecture, technology, and neuroscience, specifically focusing on learning through virtual experiences, virtual tooling, and social and competitive spaces for virtual experiences and games. Prior to working at RoTo, Nels worked with Pliny Fisk at the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems designing systems for gamifying community planning and disaster relief scenarios. It was this experience with Pliny that lead Nels to pursue a Masters in Emerging Systems, Technology and Media at SCI-Arc (M.DesR ‘14). While there, Nels thesis combined virtual reality, robotics, and automation to create a gamified interactive experience that focused on developing energy catchment systems in the California desert. Nels also teaches vertical design studios with Michael at both SCI-Arc and Arizona State University. The topics covered in these studio are selected as initial research which his fed into RotoLab for further development before finally being integrated into RoTo projects or developed as stand alone ventures. Over the past few years the topics have included various means of gamifying systems using boardgames, Unity, Core Games, and more. Last semester Nels and Michael taught a studio that challenged each student to take on one of the four elements (earth, air, water, and fire) to develop a virtual world that would play host to an architectural intervention. Built in an MMO, each student was able to explore every other students work through portals from the homeworld of SCI-Arc 2.0. Nels has also taught at University of Southern California, Academy of Art University, and lectured at the Art Center College of Design, Technical University of Berlin, Technical University of Warsaw, VRLA, and AILA among others.

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Silvia Barbero: Systemic Design: Research and Practices

In this Synergetic Landscapes unit guest lecture, Silvia Barbero talks about how Systemic Design can provide tools to face complex scenarios maintaining a holistic perspective and promoting an active cooperation among the involved stakeholder. The methodology is supported by case studies in order to understand the tools and the potentialities of this approach. The main field of application is the agro-food, the policy making and the territorial enhancement.

Silvia Barbero PhD (f) is Associate Professor at POLITECNICO DI TORINO (Department of Architecture and Design). She is responsible for the stage&job design curriculum. Her research mainly focuses on Systemic Design applied to territorial development. She is the scientific coordinator of RETRACE project (Interreg Europe I call) on the development of local and regional policies to move towards a circular economy, and other H2020 projects, like proGIreg. She has been coordinator also regional project (PACK, POR-FESR 2007-2013), and team leader of international project (like in France, at Montauban, in Spain, at Lea-Artibai, in Mexico, at Ahuacotzingo). She founded the Eco-pack Observatory in 2005. She has supervised 7 PhD-students and coordinated 7 fellow researchers. She is the author of some books on sustainable design, furthermore she wrote more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and reviewed international conference proceedings (resulting in 100+ citations). Publishing activity. She is professor in “Open Systems” at the Systemic Design Master Degree since a.y. 2017-2018; professor in “Product Environmental Requirements” at Design and Visual Communication degree since 2007; professor in “Systemic Design for territorial enhancement” at doctoral course in Management, Production and Design.

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Recording: Marie Davidová: 2021 UN World Creativity and Innovation Day Celebration Talk

During the talk, Marie Davidová demonstrates DIY interventions recipes for expanding biodiversity in front and back gardens of your houses or in your neighbourhoods. These recipes and designs were developed under Marie’s leadership in projects of Collaborative Collective NGO and Synergetic Landscapes MAAD unit at the Welsh School of Architecture. Such DIY interventions can cover various scales, experience needs and efforts. The talk will also reveal how people can generate biocorridors with their neighbours through the interventions, testing the interactive app developed in Synergetic Landscapes unit.

Please, see the recording here:

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CO-DE|GT Beta

Please, test our new beta version of CO-DE|GT! The app is aimed to support biodiversity within the city, introducing the cross-species token economy to extend urban wild life habitats.

We would kindly like to ask you to fill our questionnaire, if possible.

To add the app to your phone or tablet (and have it behave like a mobile application) open it once in your browser (Chrome or Safari are best), then open the browser menu and select “Add to Home Screen”. This will create an icon on the devices home screen and when opened from that icon it will be a full screen mobile app style.

To access the app from pixels, please, scan the QR code:

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BioClimatic Layers of Built Environment – an open call for articles for a special issue of the Energies Journal

Editor: Dr Marie Davidová (marie.davidova@intcdc.uni-stuttgart.de)
Submission site: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/special_issues/bioclimatic_environment#editors
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 13 February 2022

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This special issue of Energies will be unfolding ‘onion peels’ of bioclimatic layers of the built environment. This might cover underground cities, cave, hill and mountain dwellings, basements, interior, semi-interior spaces, breathing walls, urban, peri-urban and rural landscapes and urban and landscapes interventions and prototypes. Different built environment devices are cocreating specific climates and therefore specific habitats. For instance, breathing fences cool and humidify climates of courtyards of South Portugal (Davidová, 2019). Pigeons themselves had an effect on climate of cave dwellings in Cappadocia (Davidová, 2019; Davidová & Uygan, 2017). Various semi-interiors spaces offered habitats to variety of species in Norway (Davidová & Raková, 2018). Many recent urban interventions are supporting urban biodiversity, offering specific habitats with specific climates (Davidová & Zímová, 2018; Joachim & Aiolova, 2019; McVicar, 2020; Moxon, 2019) Specific climates for plant species growth were developed by variety of agricultural interventions (Sunguroğlu Hensel, 2020). This special issue welcomes submissions that cover more than human perspective on the topic of relation of micro and macro climate and habitats within the built environment. We welcome synthesizing articles, historical and current case studies as well as theoretical papers.

References:

Davidová, M. (2019). Breathing Walls, Envelopes and Screens for Cross-Species Co-Living Adaptation of Built Environment: The Bio-Climatic Layers in Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance. In P. Jones (Ed.), Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD8) 2019 Symposium (pp. 1–24). Chicago: Systemic Design Association. Retrieved from https://systemic-design.net/rsd-symposia/rsd8-2019/flourishing-settlement-ecologies/

Davidová, M., & Raková, D. (2018). Biodiversity and Climate Change Adaptation through Non-Discrete Architectural Spaces and Architectures: Systemic Approach to Traditions for Sustainable Futures. FormAkademisk – Research Journal of Design and Design Education, 11(4), 1–31. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.2287

Davidová, M., & Uygan, E. (2017). Living in Bio-Climatic Layers: An Investigation of Cappadocian Caves in Relation to Today’s Design and Its Futures. In F. Mahbub, S. Uddin, & A. M. Khan (Eds.), International Design Conference: DESIGN EVOLUTION [Education and Practice] (pp. 1–12). Karachi: Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313759290_Living_in_Bio-Climatic_Layers_An_Investigation_of_Cappadocian_Caves_in_Relation_to_Today%27s_Design_and_Its_Futures

Davidová, M., & Zímová, K. (2018). COLridor: Co-Design and Co-Living Urban Adaptation. FormAkademisk – Research Journal of Design and Design Education, 11(4), 1–30. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.2647

Joachim, M., & Aiolova, M. (Eds.). (2019). Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities. New York: Actar.

McVicar, M. (2020). Gathering-In-Action: The Activation of a Civic Space. Architecture and Culture, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2020.1798164

Moxon, S. (2019). Drawing on nature: a vision of an urban residential street adapted for biodiversity in architectural drawings. City, Territory and Architecture, 6(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40410-019-0105-0

Sunguroğlu Hensel, D. (2020). Ecological Prototypes: Initiating Design Innovation in Green Construction. Sustainability, 12(14), 5865. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12145865

Dr. Marie Davidová

Guest Editor

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UN World Creativity and Innovation Day: Synergetic Landscapes DIY and More

We are part of the UN Creativity and Innovation Celebrations! Please, search for the UK events and join us: April 21 15:30 – 16:30 BST at:

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https://cardiff.zoom.us/j/82756117529?pwd=WGU5T21GODQ4RStZenJTQXRCV2ppdz09

Meeting ID: 827 5611 7529
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During the talk, Marie Davidová will demonstrate DIY interventions recipes for expanding biodiversity in front and back gardens of your houses or in your neighbourhoods. These recipes and designs were developed under Marie’s leadership in projects of Collaborative Collective NGO and Synergetic Landscapes MAAD unit at the Welsh School of Architecture. Such DIY interventions can cover various scales, experience needs and efforts. The talk will also reveal how people can generate biocorridors with their neighbours through the interventions, testing the interactive app developed in Synergetic Landscapes unit.

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Cardiff University Ecosystem Resilience and Biodiversity Action Plan Launch

This is the Cardiff University (CU) Ecosystem and Resilience and Biodiversity Action Plan (ERBAP) launch at the CU Sustainability Week, accompanied by CU Hedgehog Friendly Campus initiative presentation. You can read the action plan here.

See practical DIY demonstrations for ecosystem support. These two practical presentations were performed for the Cardiff University Sustainability Week by the occasion of the Ecosystem Resilience and Biodiversity Action Plan launch. During the event, Lee Raye and Marie Davidová demonstrate DIY recipes for expanding biodiversity in front and back gardens. They also reveal how people can generate bio-corridors together with their neighbours through testing the interactive app developed in the Synergetic Landscapes unit of the MAAD program at the Welsh School of Architecture.

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Sustainable, Smart and Systemic Post-Anthropocene – an open call for articles for a special issue of the Journal of Sustainable Smart Behaviour

Editors: Dr Marie Davidová & Dr Prof Susu Nousala 

damarie.davidova@intcdc.uni-stuttgart.de & snousala@unimelb.edu.au 

Call Site Link

Submission deadline:  31st January 2021 

Download template here!

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This is an open call for a systemic design special issue for the Journal of Sustainable Smart Behaviour.  

Sustainable Smart Behaviour (SSB) is considered as a recently developed methodological approach to investigate interaction between users and various environmental parameters for improving comfort, efficiency, and well-being through smart solutions within and beyond the built environment. Specifically, the context for the terms “smart and behaviour” in relation to systemic design, refers to ubiquitous technological developments, for observing, enhancing, modelling biological behaviour, via holistic, circular, iterative systemic approaches. These terms can lead to an understanding of second order cybernetics (Glanville, 2004; Hall, Nousala, Best, & Nair, 2012; Mead, 1954; Nousala & Hall, 2008). 

These concepts can also be used to explain how users can make a place sustainable and smart (Habibi, 2018). The term “sustainable” in the context of this call, can be considered as an ability to sustain, maintain and strive for equilibrium (Nousala, 2009; Nousala, Ing, & Jones, 2018). 

The special issue will focus on human and/or non-human social interaction, behaviours and cohabitations supported by smart technologies for advancement of sustainable futures of Post-Anthropocene era (Bratton, 2013; Davidová, 2020; Davidová & McMeel, 2020; Davidová & Zavoleas, 2020). The articles should refer to systemic relations of the case studies or synthesising studies and their ‘hyperobjectivity’ (Morton, 2013). They should be suggesting the ‘transition design’ (Irwin, 2015) to Post-Anthropocene of possibly ‘flourishing futures’ (Ehrenfeld & Hoffman, 2013). With regards to the term “Post-Anthropocene”, it should be noted that authors are encouraged to discuss all aspects, including Anthropocentrism (Horsthemke, 2019). 

References: 

Bratton, B. H. (2013). Some Trace Effects of the Post-Anthropocene: On Accelerationist Geopolitical Aesthetics – Journal #46 June 2013 – e-flux. E-Flux, 46(6), 1–12. Retrieved from https://www.e-flux.com/journal/46/60076/some-trace-effects-of-the-post-anthropocene-on-accelerationist-geopolitical-aesthetics/ 

Davidová, M. (2020). Synergy in the systemic approach to architectural performance: The integral multi- and cross-layered agencies in eco-systemic generative design processes of the post-anthropocene. FormAkademisk – Research Journal of Design and Design Education, 13(2), 1–30. https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.3387 

Davidová, M., & McMeel, D. (2020). The CoCreation of Blockchain Circular Economy through Systemic Design. In D. Holzer, W. Nakapan, A. Globa, & I. Koh (Eds.), CAADRIA 2020: Re:Anthropocene – Design in the Age of Humans (Vol. 2, pp. 333–342). Bangkok: Association for Computer Aided Architectural Design in Asia. Retrieved from http://papers.cumincad.org/cgi-bin/works/paper/caadria2020_098 

Davidová, M., & Zavoleas, Y. (2020). Post-Aanthropocene: The Design after the Human Centered Design Age. In D. Holzer, W. Nakapan, A. Globa, & I. Koh (Eds.), CAADRIA 2020: Re:Anthropocene – Design in the Age of Humans (Vol. 2, pp. 203–212). Bangkok: Association for Computer Aided Architectural Design in Asia. Retrieved from http://papers.cumincad.org/cgi-bin/works/paper/caadria2020_069 

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Kateřina Vídenová (Mobile Architecture Office) – MAK!

This is Kateřina Vídenová’s guest lecture for Synergetic Landscapes unit in the Master of Architectural Design program of the Welsh School of Architecture. MAK! (Mobilní architektonická kancelář / Mobile Architecture Office) is an architectural initiative of Czech architects Kateřina Vídenová and Adam Wlazel. Their projects address the public space and the quality of life in urban and non-urban settings. They co-founded a new initiative ‘Letná for Itself!’, the activities of which sparked a major wave of civic initiatives ‘for ourselves’ across the nation. In 2013, MAK! decided to leave the city for the country. Their aim was to investigate the present situation of the contemporary Czech village and test cooperation with local residents in their caravan transformed into a mobile architecture office. In 2016 they travelled even to rural Scotland. They held festivals in the public space of Prague, researching life in the city from different points of view. The topics were e.g. gentrification (Pub “U Hada”, 2017) or ecology (Akvapark, 2018) For more information visit http://www.m-a-k.eu.

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Marie Davidová: Empatické Soužití mezi Druhy

Přednáška pro Fakultu designu a umění Ladislava Sutnara se zabývá procesy navrhování uvnitř ekosystémů městských prostředí. Je možné spolunavrhovat skrze empatii se všemi a pro všechny? Budeme diskutovat různé strategie, které cílí na tuto agendu. Naše doposud antropocentrická kultura zanedbávala fakt, že jsme přímo závislí na ostatních živočišných a rostlinných druzích. Není sklizně bez opylovatelů. Naše ekonomické modely jim a jejich práci ale nepřisuzují žádnou hodnotu. Tento fakt nás zasáhl ztrátou biodiverzity, následovanou neúrodou. Naše planeta má své hranice a vzájemné závislosti. Budeme tedy diskutovat, jak se dá navrhovat zevnitř a odspodu pro symbiotickou planetu.

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Maria Aiolova (Terreform ONE): Design with Life

In this Synergetic Landscapes unit of MAAD program, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University guest lecture, Maria Aiolova presents her recent coauthored book: Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities. Maria Aiolova is an educator, designer, and community builder in New York City. She is an innovator in ecological design, smart cities, and sustainable urban infrastructure. Maria co-founded Terreform ONE, an internationally recognized non-profit architecture and urban design research-based group to combat the extinction of all planetary species through pioneering acts of design. She was the inaugural Leader of Arup University in the Americas where she directed learning, research, foresight, and innovation. Maria served as the Academic Director of Global Programs at CIEE, where she created semester-long programs on Future Cities in Berlin, Barcelona, Prague, Shanghai, and Cape Town. She is an inventor, who holds 18 technology patents. Maria has won a number of honors including: “Woman of the Decade in Science and Design Leadership” at the Women Economic Forum 2020 in Cairo, Egypt, AIA New York Resilient Urban Design Award, Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award, and Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability. Enjoy!

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co-de|gt mobile app interface

Synergetic Landscapes unit is working on an app development! This app should integrate our DIY recipes for supporting cross-species edible and habitable landscape! This app will enable butterflies to earn tokens for pollinating your tomato and to buy a sanctuary for the gained income. This is a very work in progress version! Please, help us test it and give us a feedback here. See above the brand new soon to be implemented interface design!

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Ben Sweeting: Architectural roots of ecological crisis

In this talk for Analysis of Precedent module of Masters of Architectural Design at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University program Ben introduces some ideas from cybernetics in order to expand the scope of analysing and designing architecture in ecological terms. What do we mean when we say a building is environmentally friendly or sustainable? Often this is thought about in a technical sense in terms of mitigating the harm that the construction and use of buildings cause to their environment. For instance, we try to minimise the energy that buildings consume, the waste they produce, or the habitats they destroy. Some design approaches go further by giving back to the environment in some way, for instance by creating new habitats that replace those lost elsewhere. While there is an urgent need to reduce (and, if possible, reverse) the harm caused by the built environment, this is not the extent of the opportunities and responsibilities to address environmental concerns that come with designing architecture. Cybernetician Gregory Bateson understood one root of ecological crisis as humans’ tendency to see themselves as separate to and above their environment. As the built environment contributes to how humans see their relationship to the environment in both implicit and explicit ways, it is possible to think of architecture as an opportunity to address the causes of ecological crisis as well as its effects. I explore some possible ways of thinking about this using historic and contemporary precedents. Ben’s research explores intersections between architecture, cybernetics, ethics, and design methods.

Ben is course leader for MRes Architectural Research at the University of Brighton and teaches research practices across postgraduate courses in architecture and design. Ben studied at the University of Cambridge and the Bartlett, UCL, completing a PhD at the latter in 2014. Ben is an active member of the American Society for Cybernetics, the (UK) Cybernetics Society, the International Society for the Systems Sciences, and the Systemic Design Association.

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Virtual Fish-Bowl Workshop

Join us for the ‘Co-Designing Grangetown’ virtual workshop! The team of students from #SynergeticLandscapes unit studying Architectural Design at Cardiff University, are aiming to explore innovative design solutions alongside the Grangetown community to support urban biodiversity. Details are available in the poster. Please, register here and see a paper on Fish-Bowl to understand the process.

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RSD 7 Special Issues on Social and Environmental Systems

We are happy to let you know that the second special issue from RSD7:  

Relating systems thinking and design VII: Advancing Design Methodologies for Social and Environmental Systems was just released! Enjoy: https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/formakademisk/issue/view/414
Here is the link to the first special issue Relating systems thinking and design (VI): Within social and environmental systems: https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/formakademisk/issue/view/399

You can also follow the project on Research Gate.

I would like to thank the Authors and the Co-Editors for the great cooperation and wish you all the best in the coming year!

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Juan Dominiquez (Arup): Greener Grangetown Project

This is a guest lecture of a precedent project to be analysed in an Analysis of Precedent module of the Master of Architecture program at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. Some parts of the lecture had to be blinded for public sharing. ‘Greener Grangetown is a sustainable drainage system (SuDS) project that has also been designed to transform the quality of the public realm and improve cycling and pedestrian infrastructure across a city centre neighbourhood. The result is a more resilient urban sewer network and a street environment that is more attractive – and more useful – for residents and commuters. This green infrastructure project in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, removes more than 40,000m³ of rainwater each year from entering the combined sewer network. The project was driven by a need to reduce volumes of rainwater entering Cardiff’s sewerage system, both to maintain sufficient headroom and to protect the system’s long-term resilience. Our pioneering approach brought civil engineers together with our placemaking team to create ‘rain gardens’ that slow rainwater run-off flows and remove contaminants, cleaning and diverting rainwater directly into the nearby River Taff. Previously, rainwater run-off was pumped 8km for treatment before being discharged into the sea. Our design team worked closely with our client, City of Cardiff Council as well as scheme partners water utility Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water and environmental authority Natural Resources Wales. In this collaboration, we maximised the project’s benefits and transformed streetscapes, creating new green infrastructure and enhancing an existing riverside cycle-footpath.’ (Arup, 2020)

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Shanu Sharma: Rules of Entangled Complexity From Nature to the World of Artificial

    We live in an entangled world where all actions are directly or indirectly interconnected in ways that are not often certain or predictable. Actions of human agents, the artefacts they produce, and the environments in which they use them are not bordered/fenced unlike contested boundaries of states or nations. Hence, our interdependency makes our cultural, social, economic or environmental system porous, irrespective of rigid territorial division of nations. In such a dynamic complex network, the whole consists of entangled networks of relationships in which no part is more fundamental than another; whatever we call a part is merely a stable pattern. The global whole, then, emerges as the amalgamation of porous boundaries of the local parts similar to the emergence of a global image from the integration of pixels. Each pixel in itself is merely a small dot, but a group of pixels builds diverse patterns at interim scales, eventually displaying a complete pattern at the global level. The Human global system is similar to the dynamic interaction between pixels and images, where pixels shapes and are shaped by global changes creating a complex vicious loop of becoming the cause and consequence of each other, often inconspicuous to the centralized mind. Global changes emerge out nonlinearly from interconnected local actions. Networks represent interactions and relations between local to the global emergence of entangled complexities. Even though network expresses simple innate interaction of local entanglement, it can express the ground rules of complex processes and behaviours. Global to local non-linear entanglements of action and the networks are ubiquitous even in the natural world phenomenon. From very complex entangled networks resulting climate change or forest ecosystem, to entangled coordination of simple agents with limited cognitive capabilities of termite hill building activities, the flock of birds, flash sync of fireflies and so on are some common examples of non-linear entanglement of self-organising networks structure and their dynamic coordination. To elucidate it further such complex behaviour at the global level can be understood by an evolutionary decentralised mechanism for coordination among social insects known as stigmergy. It leverages the innate survival instinct of each animal or agent in the absence or lack of direct communication and central planning. Stigmergy is a broad class of multi-agent coordination and self-organization mechanisms that rely on information exchange through a shared environment. In the absence of direct communication, signs mediate communication and provide feedback in the shared environment. It produces complex entangled global behaviour without the need for any central planning, control, or even direct communication between local agents. It elucidates the phenomenon of efficient mechanisms and rules of collaboration between extremely simple agents, who lack any memory, intelligence, and at times even individual awareness of each other. Following the evolutionary mechanism in nature, in the design domain, stigmergy holds immense potential to understand entangled networks and to derive design insights for addressing the complex real-world problem. The collaboration with Shanu is kindly supported by Global Challenges Research Fund.

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    Dermott McMeel: Design and Value in the 21st Century: Embracing an apocalypse

    In this lecture for Synergetic Landscapes unit at the Master of Architectural Design program at the Welsh School of Architecture Dermott explores the innovations that are presented to the architecture, engineering and construction sector through blockchain. The presentation considers blockchain, as a technology and methodology that allows us to rethink the fundamental building blocks and principles on which the sector is based. It provides some historical context before offering forward some of the possibilities that a distributed methodology presents by replacing centralised and de-centralised structures of organisation that have been the default for the industry—and indeed civilisation—for centuries.

    Dr Dermott McMeel received degrees in Architecture from the Queens University in Belfast (1995, 1999) and a PhD (The Artistry of Construction) from the University of Edinburgh (2009). He is currently a senior lecturer with the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. His research interests focus on the social, organisational and cultural disruption that technology causes in the built environment. He has sustained a critical enquiry into how architecture, public space and design processes are influenced by communication technology through a variety of installations, funded research, journal articles and conference publications. Dermott is currently focused on exploring opportunities presented to the design and construction sector by blockchain technology. 

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    Lynne Thomas: Community Gateway

    This is a guest lecture for Synergetic Landscapes unit of Master in Architectural Design postgraduate program at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. The lecture covers empowerment of a local community in Grangetown, Cardiff with the Cardiff University participation. It shows the synergies and differences of bottom-up and top-down approaches and the possibilities of their synergy.

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    COLreg and Synergetic Landscapes Gigamaps at RSD9

    We are very proud that Collaborative Collective and the Students of Synergetic Landscapes unit of Master of Architectural Design #maad of the Welsh School of Architecture are exhibiting our gigamaps at Relating Systems Thinking and Design 9 Symposium. Please, see the virtual gallery here.

    Please, see the teasers:

    COLreg (Davidová 2020)
    Synergetic Landscapes Unit (students: Yutao Feng, Huicong Meng, Danjian Wang, Meihui Wang, Yuchen Wang, Yuan Zhao, supervisor: Davidová 2020)

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    Breathing Walls, Envelopes and Screens for Cross-Species Co-Living Adaptation of Built Environment

    This is RSD8 presentation originally developed for Relating Systems Thinking and Design conference at IIT Chicago, recorded for the Welsh School of Architecture’s Architecture in Context module.

    The paper suggests a possible systemic interaction with a built environment that is to lead towards its transition to Post-Anthropocene through cross-species co-living oriented governance. Today, governments across the world, such as Czechia, UK, Norway, Turkey, Canada or US are releasing strategies and programs for climate adaptations, discussing weather, biodiversity and food security (Czech Republic). The paper exemplifies and seeks for systemic relations and reflections of gathered documentation of breathing walls, envelopes and screens that are generating bio-climatic layers in the built environment. The diverse study journeys samples that were co-designed through vernacular culture and the author’s own research by design speculations are investigated and speculated upon through gigamapping. Gigamaps are devices for design inquiry rather than analytical tools like those used in systems engineering or in hard systems models (Sevaldson, 2018). Accordingly, this Gigamapping is not to present any hard data model but to inform and speculate on the investigated field that is grounded in research by design on cross-species co-living in the built-up environment through possible architectures and architectural and urban design parasites transitioning towards synergetic landscapes of our envisioned futures. Please, see the paper here.

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    Designing within 3rd Order Cybernetics: Feedback Loops in SAAP

    Please, see my talk for Cybernetics Society Annual Conference: 21st Century Stories of Practice: 

    ‘There’s nothing like the real thing’ (Kenny, 2009). The talk will be ‘connecting what is with what if’ (Thackara, 2019). It will look at complexities of feedback loops in Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance (SAAP) field’s multicentred methodology and processes where the designer oscillates between being inside and outside of the system. This will be exemplified on several research by design projects’ cases, indigenous references and their crossrelations. SAAP deals with rather small hyperobjective ecosystemic interventions that are codesigned and redesigned across complex multiscalar biodigital feedback loops across the biosphere. Therefore, these interventions interact with the existing ecosystem and are generative, regenerative, and adaptive. The talk will show that similar way it has been present in indigenous cultures. Such adaptive, generative, and regenerative systems are codesigned and coperformed by multispecies, living and non-living stakeholders and communities’ members. These are interacted, observed and reflected in feedback loops. They are in dialogical conversations within the search for generating synergetic landscapes. The talk is not aiming in unfolding any conclusions. It will uncover the complex processes and methodologies and hopes to motivate dialogues.

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    CoDesigning with Blockchain for Synergetic Landscapes: The CoCreation of Blockchain Circular Economy through Systemic Design

    Please, see Marie Davidová’s and Dermott McMeel’s presentation and paper for CAADRIA conference!

    The paper is exploring methodology within the work in progress research by design through teaching project called ‘Synergetic Landscapes’. It discusses codesign and cocreation processes that are crossing the academia, NGOs and applied practice within so called ‘real life codesign laboratory’ (Davidová, Pánek, & Pánková, 2018). This laboratory performs in real time and real life environment. The work investigates synergised bio-digital (living, non-living, physical, analogue, digital and virtual) prototypical interventions in urban environment that are linked to circular economy and life cycles systems running on blockchain. It represents a holistic systemic interactive and performing approach to design processes that involve living, habitational and edible, social and reproductive, circular and token economic systems. Those together are to cogenerate synergetic landscapes.

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    Post-Anthropocene: The Design after the Human Centered Design Age

    Please, see Marie Davidová’s and Yannis Zavoleas’ CAADRIA conference presentation and paper!

    The paper exemplifies possible traces of transition towards Post-Anthropocene that is envisioned as non-hierachical system. It is taking Morton’s discussion on ‘hyperobjectivity’ further into multi-layered codesign performed in real time and real life across bio-digital agents, including humans. Though our planet might be recently experiencing drastic times and one catastrophic scenario follows the other, a natural succession often comes after most disasters.

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    Synergetic Landscapes DIY Competition

    The aim of the competition is to encourage people to use natural materials to create liveable spaces for other species in your front and back garden.

    Deadline: August 10th, 2020Please, select the design you would like to reproduce and go to its DIY recipe via QR code.

    How to Participate:

    1. Post photos of the completed installation on Twitter and @Synergetic_landscape

    2. Upload it to a map on this website

    Rewards: Participants could receive Tokens that can be exchanged for gifts from local small businesses.

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    Hidden Bat Box DIY – Meihui Wang

    The idea for the hidden bat box comes from the idea of insect cocoons in nature. The aim is to design a home that is closest to the natural environment for bats. Hopefully, in the distance, this hidden bat box looks like part of a tree.

    The second video is about the steps to make a bat box. Willow is a natural material suitable for bat boxes. First of all, Wales is very rainy, the willow is a very absorbent natural material. Second, the willow is a plant which can regenerate itself. Over time, the willow may create its own natural spaces for wildlife. At the same time, willows are also the plant with the highest curvature in my survey, which could meet the requirements of bat box weaving.

    Bats are very important to the natural environment. Protecting the bat population is also protecting the natural environment. In addition to the benefits of pollination and eating small flying insects, bat droppings are an expensive form of Chinese medicine.

    In our animal community, people can help collect bat droppings or give them food in exchange for coffee. Bats may also help solve some of the mosquito problems that people have in the summer.

    Please, insert this QR code on your DIY:

    By using this instruction, you are agreeing in participating in Cardiff University research. Children under age of 18 should request their parents’ assistance and/or agreement.
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    Malard Nest DIY – Huicong Meng

    • Find thick willow and thin willow.
    • Find 3 thick willows and tie them together with thin willows.
    • Make two as shown and tie the heads of these two structures together with tied willows..
    • Make multiple and insert their bottoms into the soil.
    • Use the willows of the department to fix them together and wait for them to grow.
    • Be creative and build your favorite shapes.

    This video is a production instruction video of the prototype of Mallard House. It is used to introduce the production steps through the use of graphical and practical photos. People can use Willows to build this prototype to create an ideal shelter for Mallards and does not require many tools. Finally, there is some introduction about how the wild duck uses it.

    This prototype only needs to use absolute natural materials to complete, which is very friendly to the environment. And this prototype can grow with time. After a period of time, due to the biological characteristics of willow, it can become a living building.

    Because the range of activities of Cardiff’s wild ducks is very close to that of humans, it is sometimes necessary for humans to care for the lives of wild ducks. This has a positive effect on maintaining the population of wild ducks.

    Please, insert a QR code to this page on your nest:

    By using this instruction, you are agreeing in participating in Cardiff University research. Children under age of 18 should request their parents’ assistance and/or agreement.

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    Possible Fabrication DIY – Danjian Wang

    Introduction

    A fabrication called possible fabrication is created to adapt to different circumstances. Covered with the vegetation, the fabrication could perform the role of the green points between ecological areas, and change into a biological corridor together with other original green points. It is further assumed that the fabrication could serve as nests for insects or shelters for small animals. Some parts of this fabrication are modular which can be replaced to undertake different functions.

    The scale of the whole fabrication can be changed by the growth of the structure. The concept, “changeable” is the key to deal with the challenge from the complex factors in the city. The different functions are simulated in the Grasshopper (a computer software).

    How to DIY

    In order to make it much easier for local people to DIY at home, the fabrication has been simplified. The main structure is made up by branches which you can collect in the park or your own backyard. As for the panels in the fabrication, you can use old wooden boards from your old furniture to make some. If you don’t have access to wooden boards, you can create the panels by using branches and willows.

    Fabrication with wooden boards

    Fabrication with willow panels

    The builders can install the prototype freely to meet their own needs due to the simple construction process and easy access to materials.

    All the materials of the prototype is easy to get. You just need to collect some branches and willows in the park or your backyard. By following the tutorial video, you can build the prototype step by step.

    Please, insert a QR code to this site on your prototype:

    By participating in this DIY tutorial you are agreeing on taking part in Cardiff University research. Young people under age of 18 years should request permission or assistance of their parents.
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    The Growing City Game DIY – Yuan Zhao

    With the team responsibility of GIGA-MAP providing a general perspective vision of whole project, a personal innovation of Cell-System which can spread through out the city to coordinate those six team responsibilities came out.

    This Cell-System came from the observation of the urban environment and the designer found the dead zone which had always been neglected by architects and urban/landscape designers that the the spontaneous need for landscape of local community. The designer explored the systemic potential of this spontaneous need to coordinate the existing urban system.

    This innovation is based on the adequate research of local community in: culture/life style/ecosystem/organization/economy/aesthetic tendency, which provide strong justification of the design. The geometry foundation of this design is Thiessen polygon and the algorithm of Voronoi Cell in Grasshopper, which is one possibility of the Cell-System. Based on that, the redesign and simplification of the original cell, a structure which could be developed to cope with multi-function in gardening came into being. As the graphics below shows, this structure has great potential to satisfy the needs of different gardening of plants such as morning-glory, luffa…..

    Another important point is that this innovation integrates with others’ prototype in the areas of Block Chain, Materials,Bio-corridor, Stakeholders, Circular mode…..,as the graphics show below.

    As for the DIY part of the prototype, the designers made tutorial handbook&video for the local citizens to learn by themselves in order to strengthen the self-organization and spontaneity of the design. The local citizens could see these videos as handbooks or guidelines for the construction of the prototypes and based on it local citizens may improve the prototype to adapt the real environment and even feedback to the designers. 

    Please, DIY your own prototype in your front or back garden according to the following recipe:

    Please, insert QR code to this site on your prototype:

    By participating in this DIY tutorial you are agreeing on taking part in Cardiff University research. Young people under age of 18 years should request permission or assistance of their parents.
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    Deadwood Home DIY – Yutao Feng

    •       What is the installation

                      •        The prototype is called deadwood home. It is home not only to dead wood but also to many plants and animals.

                      •        The installation is a structure built by deadwood and built on a stump which has the memorable rings, it can be used as a leisure place for people as well as the park’s deadwood recycling center.

                      •        What’s more, due to the biological nature of the dead wood itself, it forms a separate ecosystem of dead wood, a community of fungi, insects, and small animals.

            •       How to build

                      •        So I used the tree ring and stem section structure as the construction logic of the installation. Each wood is like the cells inside the trunk, growing and dying.

    According to the previous concept analysis, the installation has a clear idea of shape generation.

                         •        In order to enlarge the trunk, I use the stump of the cut tree as the pith of the new tree. As long as the center is there, the tree will not die. I combine the micro cell cross section of stem structure with the cross section of trunk and explore the layered construction structure by using the growth natural aesthetics.  Its structure consists of three parts, which represent cabium, xylem, and phloem of the vascular bundle structure.

                •        Construction

                               •        The first step is to build the innermost structure, which represents the layer of cambium calls of the vascular bundle, and they are made up of cylinders of different sizes. The material of the vertical-main support is wooden stick, and the transverse lapping is made by wooden stick and willow.

                               •        Then, centering on the previous cylinder, determine the ellipse shape extending outwards, insert the vertical wooden strips into the soil along the arc line, and then use the same nest structure to cross-stack the small wooden strips horizontally and reinforce them with rattan.

                               •        Finally, the structure is further reinforced with hemp ropes that are drawn diagonally between the logs.

            •       Why

    It’s easy to forget what the trees were like before they were cut down, but the rings tell the story of the stump, and it was once relied upon by many small animals. If this is a towering tree, human beings as small as insects, then people should have a different understanding of it.

    As a rich ecosystem that can accommodate a variety of creatures in nature, dead wood acts as a currier connecting human and non-human interactions. (Ferris, R. & Humphrey, J.W. 1999). I wanted to zoom in on this stump so that people could go inside and see the microscopic world of biological aesthetics in the trunk. Perhaps there will also be richer interactions.

    Please, insert QR code to this site on your prototype:

    By participating in this DIY tutorial you are agreeing on taking part in Cardiff University research. Young people under age of 18 years should request permission or assistance of their parents.


    ECO-METROPOLIS DIY – YUCHEN WANG

    The main purpose of this prototype is to explore the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature and use it as a medium to convey the need to protect the ecology, especially for children, which is a platform for learning and practice.

    This project takes triangles as the basic design element, with the flexible topological ability and structural stability. The project aims to increase the flexibility of performance with modular processing and to reflect the diversity of forms through different construction methods.

    The diverse and simple structure is more friendly to the collective participation of the residents, allowing the project to continue through the voluntary contributions and organization of the residents. From the urban point of view, the replicability of the installation is sufficient to fill the vacancy of green space, which is exactly what the local community needs. In addition, various combination forms can better adapt to different green space properties, and the benefits brought by the number of projects are non-linear (Capra, F. 2005).

    Therefore, in order to avoid the redundancy caused by mechanical duplication, there is a more open principle for the freedom of module combination, and the feedback to the environment and demand will produce more diverse results.

    When a student with a traditional architectural background comes into contact with this project, the concept and background knowledge will be faulty. It is inappropriate or insufficient to treat it with an architectural concept. The interdisciplinary inclusive concept and The compromise consideration of problems and natural problems is a necessary design policy.  The essence of the project is a system-oriented design. Firstly, three basic goals need to be considered based on the nature of product, product goals, design goals, and experience goals.

    The most easily overlooked are experience goals, this is a project that requires a very high degree of public participation, so public feedback and participation enthusiasm are crucial.

    How to continuously optimize the program and construction process is a problem that needs to be solved for the project to land and further expand. Therefore, the design of a process is also necessary, forming a complete closed loop of user feedback and plan generation, creating more connections for each link, and forming a networked feedback system to increase the intersection of various stakeholders.

    Please, DIY your own prototype in your front or back garden according to the following recipe:

    Please, insert QR code to this site on your prototype:

    By participating in this DIY tutorial you are agreeing on taking part in Cardiff University research. Young people under age of 18 years should request permission or assistance of their parents.

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    Edible Cities of Post-Anthropocene: A bio-tech household

    See the presentation of Cynan Jones of our paper.

    Please, see the abstract:

    The paper discusses a concept for edible mushroom indoor cultivation through combining biology and technology. The research by design is based in a full-scale prototyping which has been iterated in more situations. Illustrated on three cases, the paper will unfold concepts that might be critical to future of our cities and regions: • Food security – the system allows high production of the mushrooms from substrate production to harvesting on a small area and it is purely dependent on territorial resources. • The Circular economy – the farming uses local material and energy as well as its production and waste are locally consumed and circulated. This has positive impact on local community sustainability, culture and economy. • The Foundational economy- The foundational economy is built from the activities which provide the essential goods and services for everyday life, regardless of the social status of consumers. In essence it is an economic model based on a community’s needs and assets (human and built) rather than the traditional model of wants fuelled by mass consumption. The system supports sufficient production of nutrients for all in the territory. • Sustainable production of clean, healthy and nutritional food – Following initial set up costs (in the region of £6000), the running costs are minimal. Recent research work by the first author has discovered ways of making the system more energy efficient. All aspects of the growing process ensure that the food is healthy and nutritious. The work is a practice led research where the main investigator is the farmer himself, a ‘first person practitioner’ (Sevaldson, 2005). Addressing the today most burning questions of food security, social-natural and economical sustainability, inequality and scarcity, the authors believe that the research has a strong potential both, globally, as well as locally with a local specific agro-architectural application for Post-Anthropocene cities.

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    Synergetic Landcapes

    Yuan

    Synergetic Landscapes gigamap (Zhao, 2020)

    Synergetic Landscapes is a unit in Master of Architectural Design program at the Welsh School of Architecture. This collaborative design unit focuses on generating potentials for coperforming landscape of human and non-human, living and non-living, natural and artificial participants of Grangetown community, Cardiff, Wales, UK. The term community in this project is extended from what used to be understood in anthropocentric culture. In 21st century, i.e. rivers (such as Whanganui River) and others are reclaiming their legal personhood with social, cultural, economic and environmental interests (Argyrou & Hummels, 2019). This work in progress aims to integrate variety of living and non-living agents within the community in codesigning flourishing environment with and for All. The preoccupation with defining the legal person in anthropocentric terms highlights what is of value to an [Anthropocene] society. The fact that the environment in most legal systems does not have legal personhood status, but that corporations do, is indicative of the fact that contemporary western societies see the natural world as being for profit (Hutchison, 2014). The project aims for transition towards the era of Post-Anthropocene where living and non-living beings and systems coexist together in synergy.

    Synergetic Landscapes introduction video (Feng, 2020)

    We will be posting DIY tutorials for urban interventions people can reproduce in their front and backgardens and app where they can connect in biocorridors with their neighbours. Please, stay tuned and follow our blog!

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    SAAP Digitalised Gigamaps Collection to Zoom In

    HOLOSLO-ThePenetratingOfLatent

    Gigamap of the HOLOSLO – The Penetrating of Latent diploma project (Davidová, 2007) that emerged from the Complexity and Systems Thinking studio. The map is relating digital and prototyping analyses and design processes with scenarios of design’s performances to be codesigned with the ambient environment. (Davidová 2006 – 07)

    RayGiga

    The Ray gigamap showing trans-disciplinary and trans-agency relations, observations and speculations within the project. (Davidová 2013 – images from Forest Products Laboratory, 2010; Hoadley, 1980; Menges, 2009; Němec, 2005; Tolasz & Coll., 2007 or photographed by the author, used with the courtesy of USDA Forest Products Laboratory, Taunton Press, Achim Menges, Grada and Tolasz)

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    Loop Pavilion Studio WIP board based GIGA-map (photo: Pokorný 2014)

    Loop_Digi

    The digital re-designed gigamap serving for exhibition and public debate purposes in reference to the performing prototype (gigamap responsibility: Hrůšová & Pokorný 2014)

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    Breathing Walls, Envelopes and Screens Gigamap (gigamap: Davidová 2019, Köppen-Geiger Climate Classification Map: Beck et al. under a creative commons licence (Beck et al., 2018))

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    Gigamapping Svalgangs and Skuts (Davidová 2017, photos: Davidová and Raková 2016 and 2017). map of Norway: Central Intelligence Agency – public source (Central Intelligence Agency, 1998); macro climates diagrams (yr, 2016), with the courtesy of yr.no

    Bio-CloimaticLayersOfBuiltEnvironment_Capadoccia

    Ground and Semi-Ground Inhabitation: Cappadocia Case Study Thematic Gigamap. (gigamap and images of caves by Davidová 2016. Turkey map of Köppen climate classification has been used under creative common licence (Zifan, 2016). The Map of Cappadocia has been used under creative common licence (Dörrbecker, 2009). The Climate and Temperature Diagrams are used from Climatemps.com with expired copyright in 2015 (Climatemps.com, 2015b, 2015a), Climate Zones Rainfall in Turkey map used with the courtesy of Fanack (Fanack, 2016))

    GIGA-Performance60

    Gigamap of Prototypical Architectural and Urban Design Practice Projects’s Boundary Conditions in Relation to Both, Physical and Biotic, Including Social, Environmental Interactions, Mapping the Spaces Organized from Fully Open to Almost Closed (gigamap: Davidová 2016)

    GIGA_COLridor

    COLridor and EnviroCity Gigamap showing different scales, stakeholders and their agency speculation on planned actions that is still exhibited at the location to generate public and specifically stakeholders’ discussion and motivation (Davidová 2017)

    COLridorIII

    COLreg: The Regenerative Community Gigamap (Davidová 2020)
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    UN Creativity and Innovation Day Lecture on Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance

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    Marie Davidová held a talk on #saap for UN Creativity and Innovation Day on 21st April 2020. Please, enjoy the recording below! You can develop better understanding of the synergy of several process based fields that gave the birth to the Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance field.

    #WCIW #WCID #IAmCreative #saap #systemicapproachtoarchitecturalperfomance

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    COLridor II

    ‘COLridor II has been built as an architectural solution by Collaborative Collective for Czech National Heritage Association’s exhibition on wood building constructors’ lineage Herzan (Davidová, Zímová, & Horák Goryczka, 2019). The project is to support bio-corridorial relations of an adjacent park and city’s eco-system. Constructed and kept updated with local scouts,the structure holds, insulate and hydrates onions of blossoming plants to feed pollinators in very early spring’s very first sun and holds local specific seeds for birds. The interior part will invade the gallery space with an indoor eco-system and offer bird food to visitors for dissemination.’ (Davidová, 2019)

    The following text is in Czech only. Please, see a paper discussing context of this project here.

    Následující text je kapitola, která je součástí publikace k výstavě Herzan: Stavitelský rod z Třebíče v tištěné podobě publikované Národním památkovým ústavem nebo jako jako kapitola ke stažení zde. Navštivte výstavu!

    Marie Davidová, Kateřina Zímová, Kateřina Horák Goryczka

    Kapitola pojednává o procesu navrhování a výroby objektů pro výstavu Herzan: Stavitelský rod z Třebíče, který pořádá Národní památkový ústavu, Muzeum Vysočiny Ttřebíč a Městské kulturní středisko Třebíč. Architektonické řešení výstavy se nazývá COLridor II, který byl vypracován Collaborative Collective z. s. jako pokračování konceptu Jedlé krajiny. Hlavní organizátor výstavy, Národní památkový ústav, si kladl za cíl vytvořit táborákovou bránu, která bude ctít tesařské, stavitelské, architektonické a volnočasové úspěchy všech členů rodiny Herzánů. Volnočasové táborákové aktivity mají na Třebičsku dlouhou a silnou Tradici, tendence pracovat s mládeží se nejsilněji projevovala u Jiřího Herzána, jehož táborákové brány jsou významnou inspirací v projektu COLridor II. Součástí zadání bylo vytvořit instalace kolaborativním způsobem tak, že se na jejich výrobě budou podílet místní spolky a uskupení. Symbol brány je stylizován do venkovního objektu, který je chápaný jako poutač k výstavě. Cílem projektu COLridor II je vývoj a navázání na dřevařskou tradici Třebíčského rodu Herzánů, která je  na Zámku Třebíč prezentována veřejnosti prostřednictvím lineární retrospektivní výstavy a zároveň poskytnutí eko-systemických služeb místu. Toho je dosaženo tím, že součástí výstavy bude poutač ve formě městské intervence na nádvoří Třebíčského zámku a vnitřní instalace ve stejném duchu. Návrh objektů je inspirován táborovou bránou z tvorby Jiřího Herzána.

    COLridor II navazuje na environmentální a sociální charakter této tvorby a dále rozvíjí principy našich předchozích environmentálních staveb SpiralTreeHouse (Davidová, 2013, 2014, 2016a, 2017a) a Co-oCo-oNest (Davidová & Neshevets, 2018). Vzhledem k současným trendům se nabízí možnost a potřeba reflektovat tyto tendence a vytvořit tak objekty z responsivního dřeva a tím podpořit městské společenské a eko-systemické služby. Proto geometrická konstrukce z kulatiny nabízí jak místo k odpočinku a socializaci napříč eko-systémem, tak i koncept „jedlé krajiny“ (Creasy, 2004; Davidová, Zatloukal, & Zímová, 2017). Lanové výplety nabízí posezení pro lidi, zatímco geometrická konstrukce se zeminou nabízí místní cibulovité medonosné rostliny a semínka pro ptáky v období zimy. Jak dřevo, tak rostliny budou příznivě moderovat okolní klima.

     

    1           Úvod

    Projekt COLridor II sdružuje dohromady více směrů naší práce. Po konstrukční a eko-systemické stránce navazuje na projekt SpiralTreeHouse, vytvořeného pro soužití lidí s lesem a jeho iteraci Co-oCo-oNest pro soužití lidí a stromů ve městě. Poprvé byl pro tyto koncepty zhotoven statický posudek (Figure 1).

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    Figure 1: Statické posození interiérové konstrukce (Zatloukal 2018)

    Dále navazuje na výzkum v oblasti responsivního dřeva první autorky (Davidová, 2016b, 2017b). Kombinace hygroskopické vlastnosti dřeva, která pomáhá životu medonosných rostlin, a eko-systemické performance těchto rostlin a semen, se stane zásadní interakcí s místním potravním řetězcem v době nestálostí těchto podmínek díky klimatickým změnám. Zároveň je podporováno lidské porozumění, že právě oni jsou nedílnou součástí eko-systému, kde jejich hrají zásadní roli v soužití s ostatními druhy. Takový přístup přímo navazuje na skauting a v jeho rámci aktivity Jiřího Herzána.

    2           Co-Design a DIY

    Spolu-navrhování, tedy co-design, má v projektu několik úrovní. Na začátku projektu byl vytvořen akční diagram (Figure 1) a po té proběhl „gigamapovací“ (Sevaldson, 2011, 2015) workshop mezi aktéry projektu (Figure 2). Díky tomu byla vybrána lokace, nastaveny podmínky spolupráce a prodiskutován základní koncept projektu. V mezičase se zajistili platní sponzoři a dohoda o spolupráci s místními skauty. Skauti se nejen podíleli na stavbě konstrukcí, ale i objekty kontrolují, opravují a dovyrábí v čase krmítka.

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    Figure 2: Akční diagram některých předpokládaných zúčastněných aktérů (Davidová 2018)

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    Figure 3: Gigamapovací workshop v Třebíči (foto: Gönulf 2018)

    To navazuje na to, jak objekty spolunavrhuje eko-systém v čase. Venkovní i interiérové objekty se budou proměňovat rašením rostlin, jejich kvetením, krmítky a okolním eko-systémem, který přilákají k interakci.

    Na objektu je umístěn QR kód, vedoucí k této kapitole i k návodům, jak si podobné objekty mohou komunity vytvořit sami. Návody jsou poskytnuty při nekomerčním využití bezplatně pod Creative Commons licencí k jakékoli modifikaci při uvedení Collaborative Collective a našeho QR kódu (Creative Commons, 2017). Vzniká tak další vrstva spolunavrhování za vzniku nových komunitních iterací projektů.

    3           Eko-Systemická Performance

    Dřevěná konstrukce (Figure 4) využívá faktu, že dřevo nasává a odpařuje vlhkost. Díky této vlastnosti budou cibuloviny nasávat vláhu i za velmi suchého a horkého počasí, které je pro nádvoří typické. Konstrukce tak moderuje mikro-klimatické extrémy na místě a umožňuje růstu medonosných rostlin. Konstrukce tak umožní aplikaci konceptu jedlé krajiny ve městě, tedy město, kde se ne jenom bydlí, ale dá i najíst, zásadní podmínku pro život.

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    Figure 4: Konstrukce zatím  bez umístění sazenic a krmítek (foto: Davidová 2018)

    .Jarní potravu pro hmyz představují cibuloviny. Ty jsou nainstalovány už na podzim a vykvetou už brzy na jaře (vzhledem k velmi slunnému místu pravděpodobně  už koncem ledna). Z cibulek vyrostou květy pro nedočkavý hmyz. Byly vybrány krokusy (fialová a žlutá), ladoňky (modrá), narcisky (žlutá), tulipány  (růžová), které jsou obaleny mechem pro izolaci a regulaci vlhkosti a připevněny na kmen pomocí jutové textilie, evokující přírodní tvar choroše. Do interiéru jsou umístěny stínomilné rostliny, které zde regulují vlhkost. Dřevěné konstrukce díky svému nasávání vlhkosti takový ekosystém podporují.

    Pro větší interakci s eko-systémem budou skauty na místě obnovována krmítka pro ptáky. Semínka do krmítek jsou vybrána taková, která se pěstovala v okolí Třebíče, na Vysočině. To znamená  pohanka, slunečnice, proso atd. Krmítka jsou realizována jako odlitá směs tuku a semínek umístěná v konstrukci nebo volná semínka. Krmítka budou umístěna po celou dobu konání výstavy a skauti je bude doplňovat.

    4           Scénografie a Scénář

    Kromě zainteresovaných zúčastněných budou návštěvníci přilákáni z městské stezky vedoucí přes nádvoří venkovní konstrukcí, která má zároveň funkci poutače. Její interaktivní charakter také přiláká návštěvnice-ky, které-í by sami o sobě na výstavu nešly-i. Při vstupu do galerie, jízdárny, uvítá návštěvnici-ka iterace venkovního objektu ve formě brány. Brána navazuje na skautskou tradici v práci Jiřího Herzána a jsou na ní ze strany umístěny expoziční objekty. Ve středu projdete zavěšenými rodinnými fotografiemi k časové ose rodu propojené s exponáty. Uhlopříčně jsou pak umístěny třílístky s jednotlivými členy rodu v osách kleneb. Na závěr si návštěvnice-k přečte kurátorské slovo (Figure 5) a získá semínka pro venkovní objekt. Při odchodu pak přes QR kód dojdou k vybídnutí a návodům k realizaci podobných objektů.

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    Figure 5: Scénář a scénografie interiérové části výstavy. (Davidová 2018)

    5           Závěr

    Charakter expozice si klade za cíl plynule navázat na experimentální práci stavitelského rodu a představit diskutované téma z pohledu současnosti. To především znamená eko-systemické služby, které jsou zde pojaty jako „neantropocentrická architektura“ a především její „performance“ (Hensel, 2013). Na rozdíl od většinové performativní architektury je ale do procesu performance zahrnuto i spolunavrhování jak na začátku projektu, tak během procesu expozice. Každý, lidský i jiný, návštěvník-ce se tak stává její součástí i spolunavrhovatelkou-em. K tomu je přidána širší vrstva k šíření iterací této mise přes tagování veřejného prostoru QR kódy. Projekt má tedy generativní charakter pojatý odspoda (bottom up approach) a posouvá koncept „městských prototypických intervencí“ z počátku milénia (Davidová, 2004; Doherty, 2005) i k širším měřítkům.

    6           Kredit

    Projekt COLridor II vznikl z podnětu Národního památkového ústavu, který je autorem námětu a koncepce výstavy, ve spolupráci s rodinou Herzánů zpracovává téma výstavy. Dalšími partnery projektu je Muzeum Vysočiny třebíč, Městské kulturní středisko a Město Třebíč.  Národní památkový ústav si uvědomoval specifika projektu a ve výběrovém řízení vybral nabídku od Collaborative Collective z. s. pro jejich dosavadní zkušenost s environmentální architekturou a ekosystemických služeb v urbánním prostředí. Projekt je sponzorsky zajištěn Lesy České Republiky, Pavlínek, Kvetoucí zahrada, PROBIO.

    Výstava je financována z rozpočtu Národního památkového ústavu, z institucionální podpory na dlouhodobý koncepční  rozvoj výzkumné organizace IP DKRVO – cíl Moderní architektura 20. století. Muzeum Vysočiny Třebíč a Městské kulturní středisko Třebíč přispívá poskytnutím lokálních znalostí a prostor zámecké Konírny na Zámku v Třebíči. Mětso Třebíč zajistilo dřevařský materiál pro stavbu instalace. Collaborative Collective z. s. zajišťuje návrh, koordinaci a realizaci instalace dřevěných ekosystemických objektů. Sponzorsky je projekt vybaven sysnetetickými lany od Pavlínek s. r. o., semeny od Kvetoucí zahrada, a semínky pro ptactvo od PROBIO. Část projektu podporují sponzorsky také Lesy České republiky.

     

    6.1         Návrh a Realizace

    • Národní Památkový Ústav:

    Garant projektu: Ing. Arch. Naďa Goryczková

    Námět a koncept výstavy: Ing. Arch. Kateřina Horák Goryczka

    Kurátoři výstavy: Ing. Jiří Bláha Ph.D.,  Ing. Arch. Lubor Herzán, Ing. Arch. Kateřina Horák Goryczka, Mgr. Jan Klimeš Ph.D.

    • Collaborative Collective:

    Vedení projektu COLridor II, metodologie, koncept, scénář, scénografie a vedení realizace: Marie Davidová, MArch, Ph.D.

    Krajinná ekologie: Ing. Kateřina Zímová

    Detailní zpracování architektonického návrhu a realizace: Mg.A. Ondřej Michálek

    Statika konstrukce: Ing. Jan Zatloukal, Ph.D.

    Osazovací plán: Ing. Kateřina Gazdová

    Detailní zpracování architektonického návrhu: Bc. Arif Gönulf

    Realizace objektů a výstavy: Ing. Arch. Jan David

    • Skautský Oddíl Srdíčko:

    Vedení organizace za skauty: Tereza Čapková

    Vedení realizace za skauty: Michal Stasiak

    Realizace: Michal Stasiak – Mnějéša, Tereza Čapková, Roman Čapka – Kecal, Matěj Nejedlý – Vajco, Vojtěch Viceník – Štika, Kamil Belán – Racek, Tomáš Novotný – Kečup, Vladislav Větrovec – Prófa, Tomáš Veselý, Ondřej Herzán

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    Davidová, M., Zatloukal, J., & Zímová, K. (2017). Responsive Transformer: The Bio-Robotic Adaptive Architecture. In F. Mahbub, S. Uddin, & M. A. Khan (Eds.), International Design Conference: DESIGN EVOLUTION [Education and Practice] (pp. 1–8). Karachi: Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313759423_Responsive_Transformer_The_Bio-Robotic_Adaptive_Architecture

    Davidová, M., & Neshevets, N. (2018). Eco-Systemic Co-Design for DIY: Co-oCo-oNest, the Baby of SpiralTreeHouse // Зозулине гніздо. Retrieved May 20, 2018, from https://systemicapproachtoarchitecturalperformance.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/eco-systemic-co-design-for-diy-coocoonest-the-baby-of-spiraltreehouse-зозулине-гніздо/

    Davidová, M., Zímová, K., & Horák Goryczka, K. (2019). COLridor II pro výstavu Herzan: Stavitelský rod z Třebíče / COLridor II for Exhibition Herzan: The builders’ family from Třebíč. In K. Horák Goryczka (Ed.), Herzan: Stavitelský rod z Třebíče (pp. i–ii). Prague: Czech National Heritage Institute. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330620790_COLridor_II_pro_vystavu_Herzan_Stavitelsky_rod_z_Trebice

    Doherty, G. (2005). Prototypes in Pinkenba. In Nordes 2005 – In the Making (Vol. 1, pp. 1–5). Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. Retrieved from http://www.nordes.org/opj/index.php/n13/article/view/262/245

    Hensel, M. (2013). Performance-Oriented Architecture: Rethinking Architectural Design and the Built Environment (1st ed.). West Sussex: John Willey & Sons Ltd.

    Sevaldson, B. (2011). GIGA-mapping: Visualisation for complexity and systems thinking in design. In J.-J. Lee (Ed.), Nordes ’11: the 4th Nordic Design Research Conference (pp. 137–156). Aalto: Aalto University. Retrieved from http://www.nordes.org/opj/index.php/n13/article/view/104/88

    Sevaldson, B. (2015). Gigamaps: Their role as bridging artefacts and a new Sense Sharing Model. In Relating Systems Thinking and Design 4 (pp. 1–11). Banff: Systemic Design Research Network. Retrieved from https://app.box.com/s/tsj7ewtcy9dr63knf64tvo3yrepmzdov

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    TreeHuggerCyprus: The Eco-Systemic Prototypical Urban Intervention by the United Nations Buffer Zone for DIY

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    Figure 1: TreeHuggerCyprus: Responsive Wood Insect Hotel that offers  a variety of climatic and spatial conditions to be met with diverse insects’ preferences. This is achieved  by global axis orientation, the shape of the hotel and cutting the panels from different positions of the tree trunk. Please also take note of the social communication and engagement through exhibited GAGA-Maps and QR Code. (Photo: Davidová 2018)

    1           Project Introduction

    The eCAADe RIS workshop at the Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus by Collaborative Collective is a local and participative adaptation of similar project in Prague with the same name, the TreeHugger (see Figure 1). Offering hands on experience of prototyping and placing into public space the responsive wood insect hotel’s workshop relates to local environmental, social and political parameters as well as the skills and interests of its participants. This eco-systemic ‘prototypical urban intervention’ (Davidová, 2004; Doherty, 2005) takes place at one of the trees near by  the United Nations Buffer Zone in Nicosia. The very difficult political-urban situation gave birth to rich bio-topes on a bio-corridor within the, otherwise very anthropocentric, city centre of Nicosia, Cyprus. The research addresses the landscape ecologists’ discussion that our agricultural land has become so toxic (i.e. use of pests) that many species, that had adapted to them hundreds years ago, are recently adapting for the life in the cities. Nearly 80% of flying insects in biomass have disappeared since eighties/nineties in Western Europe from our landscape (Vogel, 2017). In similar percentage follows the decrease of birds that eats them (Czech Ornithologists Association, 2016). As architectural researchers addressing such data, we claim that we need to adapt our anthropocentrically evolved cities for the co-living situation with other species across the communities.

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    Figure 2: GIGA-Mapping of Collected Data (Photo: Kontovourkis 2018)

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    Figure 3: Resolving Grasshopper Code (Photo: Davidová 2018)

    The hands on started with, in this case analogue, process-based diagramming, so called ‘GIGA-Mapping’ (Davidová, 2014; Sevaldson, 2011, 2013, 2015), of the participatory and local environmental properties, using on site registered and measured data, questionnaires of locals and environmental agencies and web search (see Figure 2). Afterwards the hands on continued with adjusting former TreeHugger’s Grasshopper code to the local tools and local and design specific parameters (see Figure 3). Next to the above mentioned, the participants explored the responsive solid wood digital fabrication skills, critical public space eco-systemic intervention skills and most importantly, the performing and interacting prototype’s observations registrations. When intervening the public space, they did and needed to- engage with the locals. Engaging them into the project generates co-design and avoids vandalism. We introduced variety of observational tools that can serve to generation of another analytical multi-media GIGA-Map and this research’s further exploration.

    The QR code with a link to our blog with post with the prototype’s Grasshopper code and an explanation is engraved into the prototype for the local communities to DIY under Creative Commons Non-Commercial Use Licence (Creative Commons, 2017) across the borders and the process GIGA-Map will be exhibited for learning and interaction. Since it is difficult for humans to cross, they might interact through generating exchangeable habitats of other species. Through questioning the transitions across the (eco-)systemic boundaries, we propose to question the political, when considering humans taking part of, also the eco-systemic, struggles from the bottom up!

    Note: For our application in Prague, please, see the papers ‘TreeHugger: The Eco-Systemic Prototypical Urban Intervention’ (Davidová & Prokop, 2018) and  ‘COLridor: Co-Design and Co-Living for Sustainable Futures’ (Davidová & Zímová, 2017) or our facebook page ‘COLridor’ (Davidová, 2017).

    For the Cyprian adaptation, we kindly than to the participants Panagiota Konatzii and Michalis Psaras to start the project one month before with their research on a tree selection and resolving its allowance from the local authorities.

    2           Envisioned Outcome

    The eco-systemic prototypical urban intervention should follow similar mode as the TreeHugger insect hotel responsive wood prototype from Prague (Davidová & Prokop, 2018; Davidová & Zímová, 2017). This all was to be adjusted to local environment (eco-systemic: natural, social and cultural), tools and participatory characters and skills that was available on place. The GIGA-Map documenting the design process is exhibited next to the prototype for participatory interaction. The performance registering from the last day of the conference will be discussed and possibly used for the digital GIGA-Map after the conference.

    The project is to better the local natural, social and cultural environment. The following code and manual invites you to build your own TreeHugger in and with your community, adjusted to your local environment. DIY!

    3           DIY Manual

    3.1         Download the Code

    The codes are written for Rhino 6 and Rhino 7 (Robert McNeel & Associates, 2018) to be open there in Grasshopper (Davidson, 2017). Download its evaluation version here and here respectively.

    Please, download it here for Rrino 6.

    Please, download it here for Rhino 7.

    3.2         Follow the Story Boards

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    Figure 4: Design Process Story Board (Psaras 2018)

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    Figure 5: Prototyping Process Story Board (Psaras 2018)

    3.3         Always Refer and Place the Our QR Code

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    Figure 6: QR Code to the Link to This Post (Davidová 2018)

    Please, download it here: qr-code

    4           Terms of Use

    Please, note, this project is provided under Creative Commons Non-Commercial Use Licence (Creative Commons, 2017):

    4.1         You are free to:

    Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

    Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material

    The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

    4.2         Under the following terms:

    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

    NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

    No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

    5           Workshop Tutors:

    Marie Davidová, MArch, Ph.D. & Ing. Arch. Šimon Prokop

    6          Site Analysis for Tree Pre-Selection and Permission Negotiation:

    Panagiota Konatzii & Michalis Psaras

    7           Workshop Participants:

    Panagiota Konatzii, Michalis Psaras, Stefanos Kyprianou, Marko Vucic

    References:

    Creative Commons. (2017). Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International — CC BY-NC 4.0. Retrieved December 9, 2017, from https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

    Czech Ornithologists Association. (2016). The Annual Report of the Czech Ornithologists Association / Výroční zpráva České společnosti ornitologické 2016 birdlife.cz. Prague. Retrieved from http://bigfiles.birdlife.cz/Vyrocni_zprava_CSO_2016.pdf

    Davidová, M. (2004). Gary Doherty: On Spatial Dialogues. Stavba, 5(6), 18.

    Davidová, M. (2014). Generating the Design Process with GIGA-map: The Development of the Loop Pavilion. In B. Sevaldson & P. Jones (Eds.), Relating Systems Thinking and Design 2014 Symposium Proceedings (pp. 1–11). Oslo: AHO. Retrieved from http://systemic-design.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/MD_RSD3_GeneratingtheDesignProcesswithGIGA-map.pdf

    Davidová, M. (2017). COLridor. Retrieved March 31, 2017, from https://www.facebook.com/COLridor/

    Davidová, M., & Prokop, Š. (2018). TreeHugger: The Eco-Systemic Prototypical Urban Intervention. In O. Kontovourkis (Ed.), 6th eCAADe RIS 2018 Proceedings (pp. 1–10). Nicosia: University of Cyprus. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325248861_TreeHugger_The_Eco-Systemic_Prototypical_Urban_Intervention

    Davidová, M., & Zímová, K. (2017). COLridor: Co-Design and Co-Living for Sustainable Futures. In B. Sevaldson (Ed.), Relating Systems Thinking and Design 6: Environment, Economy, Democracy: Flourishing Together (pp. 1–20). Oslo: Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321371410_COLridor_Co-Design_and_Co-Living_for_Sustainable_Futures

    Davidson, S. (2017). Grasshopper – algorithmic modeling for Rhino. Retrieved October 6, 2017, from http://www.grasshopper3d.com/

    Doherty, G. (2005). Prototypes in Pinkenba. In Nordes 2005 – In the Making (Vol. 1, pp. 1–5). Kopenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. Retrieved from http://www.nordes.org/opj/index.php/n13/article/view/262/245

    Robert McNeel & Associates. (2018). Rhino 6 for Windows. Retrieved May 24, 2018, from https://www.rhino3d.com/6

    Sevaldson, B. (2011). GIGA-mapping: Visualisation for complexity and systems thinking in design. Nordes ’11: The 4th Nordic Design Research Conference, 137–156. Retrieved from http://www.nordes.org/opj/index.php/n13/article/view/104/88

    Sevaldson, B. (2013). Systems Oriented Design: The emergence and development of a designerly approach to address complexity. In J. B. Reitan, P. Lloyd, E. Bohemia, L. M. Nielsen, I. Digranes, & E. Lutnaes (Eds.), DRS // CUMULUS 2013 (pp. 14–17). Oslo: HIOA. https://doi.org/ISBN 978-82-93298-00-7

    Sevaldson, B. (2015). Gigamaps: Their role as bridging artefacts and a new Sense Sharing Model. In Relating Systems Thinking and Design 4 (pp. 1–11). Banff: Systemic Design Research Network. Retrieved from https://app.box.com/s/tsj7ewtcy9dr63knf64tvo3yrepmzdov

    Vogel, G. (2017). Where have all the insects gone? Science, 5(6355), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal1160

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    Eco-Systemic Co-Design for DIY: Co-oCo-oNest, the Baby of SpiralTreeHouse // Зозулине гніздо

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    Figure 1: Testing by locals on prototype’s finalising day (Photo: Prokop 2018) // Останній день спорудження прототипу. Мешканці із цікавістю досліджують його можливості (Фото: Prokop 2018)

    Abstract // Анотація:

    Within the framework of the first international ‘Something in the Kotlovan’ workshop series, organised by 86 International Ukrainian Film Festival, Collaborative Collective, Ukrainian trans-disciplinary workshop participants and the local community of Slavutych co-designed baby of SpiralTreeHouse (Davidová, 2013, 2014b, 2016, 2017), the Co-oCo-oNest.

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    В рамках першого міжнародного семінару “Щось у Котловані” організованого Фестивалем кіно та урбаністики 86, Collaborative Collective, разом з українськими учасниками та місцевою громадою було створено ко-дизайн нащадка SpiralTreeHouse (Davidová, 2013, 2014b, 2016, 2017) “Зозулине гніздо”.

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    Due to the disaster in 1986, the Exclusion Zone of Chernobyl gave rise to an exclusive eco-system (Deryabina et al., 2015) that turned the nuclear zone into natural tourist destination. This leads to the question of such adaptation of the local society and their built environment. In the time when we discuss about 80% of biodiversity or biomass loss in Western and Central Europe, this place is truly unique. Our workshop program claimed that the community needs to take an advantage of such local specificity and develop their cross-species co-living and co-habitation skills. These are advanced through community ‘co-design and co-creation’ (Sanders & Stappers, 2008) with the use of sketch models (see Figure 2), questionnaires and GIGA-Mapping (see Figure 3), a visual trans-disciplinary diagramming of complexity (Davidová, 2014a, 2017; Davidová & Zímová, 2017; Sevaldson, 2011, 2015). Many locals helped on the building site. The participants photographed and draw the local references while seek for their relations. While doing so, they co-designed eco-systemic ‘prototypical urban interventions’ (Doherty, 2005) and their fusion was physically prototyped. The reason for prototyping is twofold: 1] it teaches the participants prototyping skills for all the other prototypes realisation; 2] it develops a particular case study into realisation and its recipe is placed online so it can be locally adapted and reproduced elsewhere with Creative Commons Non-Commercial Use Licence (Creative Commons, 2017). The link to the recipe is distributed locally in form of QR code. We truly hope that the prototype can stay at the place. However, this is up to Slavutych municipality to decide. Therefore, during the festival event, the prototype Co-oCo-oNest serves as a learning tool for observations and alterations suggestions as well as an advertisement, motivating more interventions, exhibiting ‘Know How for DIY’.

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    Через катастрофу 1986 року довкола Чорнобиля утворилася неповторна екосистема (Deryabina et al., 2015), вона перетворила зону відчуження на природну туристичну принаду. Це, у свою чергу, поставило перед мешканцями питання про пристосування наявних умов та навколишнього середовища цього унікального місця. На сьогоднішній день у Західній та Центральній Європі вже втрачено близько 80% біорізноманіття. Програма воркшопу спрямована на потреби громади, чутлива до місцевої специфіки та розвитоку навичок міжвидового співіснування. Такі навички було отримано за допомогою співко-дизайну та співробітництва (Sanders & Stappers, 2008) із використанням ескізних моделей (див. малюнок 2), опитувальників та GIGA-Mapping (див. малюнок 3), міждисциплінарнаої візуалізації діаграм складності (Davidová, 2014a, 2017; Davidová & Zímová, 2017; Sevaldson, 2011, 2015). Багато містян долучалися до будівництва. Учасниці та учасники фотографували та замальовували місцеві відповідники, дошукуючись їх взаємозв’язків. Разом з тим вони спільно розробили екологічні “прототипи міських інтервенції” (Doherty, 2005), синтез яких власне і було втілено в проекті “Зозулине гніздо”. Прототипування необхідне з двох причин: 1] навчитися прототипувати об’єкти для реалізації; 2] дослідити та розробити конкретний проект, інструкцію для створення якого, буде розміщено в загальному доступі, що уможливить подальше відтворенням із врахуванням локальних умов місцевості на умовах ліцензії Creative Commons для некомерційного застосування (Creative Commons, 2017). Посилання на інструкцію поширюється локально у формі QR-коду. Ми сподіваємось, що прототип “Зозулине гніздо” може бути залишений для використання. Однак, це звичайно лишається на розсуд муніципалітету міста Славутича.Таким чином, в рамках фестивального заходу “Зозулине гніздо” , “Зозулине гніздо” бувстав навчальним інструментом, що враховує пропозиції, спостереження щодо змін,. Просуває а також для промоції, що мотивує доі мотивує до інтервенційї в публічному просторі, виставляючи за  принципом “Ноу-хау для DIY”.

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    Figure 2: Working model for co-creation (Photo: Davidová 2018) // Робоча модель співтворчості (Фото: Davidová 2018)
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    Figure 3: GIGA-Map for co-creation (Photo: Davidová 2018) // карта для спільної творчості (Фото: Davidová 2018)

    What emerged from the disaster might fight to become the most sustainable island in Europe that lost its biodiversity and struggles to adapt to climate change. Such systemic relations will be investigated in the GIGA-Mapping that will engage true local specific study within global context. No community co-living situation will emerge from authorities. People usually address as their thing the things they co-create. Through strong local community engagement, we believe to build the community life from the bottom up!

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    Зона відчуження, що виникла зпісля катастрофи, може стати острівцем стабільності у Європі, яка втрачає своє біорізноманіття та заледве пристосовується до кліматичних змін. Такі системні відносини будуть досліджуватись в GIGA-Mapping, що включатиме справжнє локальне специфічне дослідження в глобальному контексті.

    Жодна громада не виникає зусиллями влади. Люди, як правило, звертають увагу на те, що вони створили спільними зусиллями. Саме через залучення сильної місцевої громади, ми віримо, що можемо побудувати життя громади знизу!

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    Key Words:  Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance; SpiralTreeHouse; Co-oCo-oNest; Trans-Co-Design; Co-Creation; GIGA-Mapping, Systems Oriented Design; Performance Oriented Architecture

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    Ключові слова: системний підхід до архітектурної діяльності; SpiralTreeHouse; Co-oCo-oNest; GIGA-картографуввання, системно-орієнтоване проектування; Операційно-орієнтована архітектура

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    1           How to Build Co-oCo-oNest /

    / Як побудувати “Зозулине гніздо”:

    1.1         How To // Як:

    Figure 4: Animation of the systemic folding of the structure (Animation: Prokop 2018; System: Davidová 2010) // Анімація системи принципу складанняання структури (Анімація: Prokop 2018; Система: Davidová 2010)
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    Figure 5: Script for knotting the joints 1 (Illustration: Rezen; Photos: Popov 2018; Concept: Závada & Davidová 2010) // Інструкція зчеплення стовбурів (ілюстрація: Резен; фотографії: Попов 2018; концепція: Závada & Davidová 2010)
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    Figure 6: Script for knotting the joints 2 (Illustration: Rezen; Photos: Popov 2018; Concept: Závada & Davidová 2010) // Інструкція зчеплення стовбурів (ілюстрація: Резен; фотографії: Попов 2018; концепція: Závada & Davidová 2010)
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    Figure 7: Script for knotting the joints 3 (Illustration: Rezen; Photos: Popov 2018; Concept: Závada & Davidová 2010) // Інструкція зчеплення стовбурів (ілюстрація: Резен; фотографії: Попов 2018; концепція: Závada & Davidová 2010)
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    Figure 8: Do the netting based on the sizes of the triangles, your needs and imagination (Photo: Prokop 2018) // Зробіть сітку відповідно до розмірів трикутників, ваших потреб і фантазії (Фото: Prokop 2018)

    Please, note, this project is provided under Creative Commons Non-Commercial Use Licence (Creative Commons, 2017):

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    Будь– ласка, зверніть увагу, цей проект надається за ліцензією Creative Commons для некомерційнеого використання (Creative Commons, 2017):

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    1.2         You are free to // Ви можете:

    Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

    Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material

    The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

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    Ділитися – копіювати та розповсюджувати матеріал у будь-якому форматі та і за допомогою різних способів;

    Пристосовувати – реміксувати, перетворювати будову відповідно матеріалам;

    Ліцензент не скасовуєобмежує ці свободи, якщодопоки ви дотримуєтесь умов ліцензії.

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    1.3         Under the following terms // Відповідно до цих умов:

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    Figure 9: Please, attach the QR code to our site. // Будь ласка, прикріпіть QR-код на нашому сайті.

    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

    NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

    No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

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    Посилання – Ви повинні надати відповідну згадку, надати посилання на ліцензію та вказати, чи були внесені зміни. Це може бути зроблене у будь-якому форматі, але в жодному разі, не те що позиціонує схвлення вас або вашого використання зі сторони ліцензіара. крім випадків, коли автор представляє себе або проект як такий, що було схвалено ліцензентом.

    Не коммерційне – Ви не можете використовувати матеріал з комерційною метою.

    Немає жодних додаткових обмежень – Ви не можете застосовувати юридичні умови або технологічні заходи, які юридично обмежують інших людей робити щось, що дозволяє ліцензія.

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    2           Workshop Tutors // Ментори:

    Marie Davidová, MArch, Ph.D. // Марія Давідова, Ph.D архітектури

    Ing. Arch. Šimon Prokop // Шимон Прокоп, інжинер-архітектор

    3           Worksop Participants // Учасники:

    Nataliia Neshevets // Наталія Нешевець

    Oleksandr Rezen // Олександр Резен

    Olivia Dimitrishina // Олівія Дімітрішина

    Andrii Zabolotnyi // Андрій Заболотний

    Slavutych local community // Славутицька місцева громада

    References // Посилання:

    Creative Commons. (2017). Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International — CC BY-NC 4.0. Retrieved December 9, 2017, from https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

    Davidová, M. (2013). SpiralTreeHouse. EARCH., 1–2. Retrieved from http://www.earch.cz/cs/architektura/spiraltreehouse

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    Davidová, M. (2014b). SpiralTreeHouse. In K. Křenová & Ľ. Fábri (Eds.), Ročenka Dřevostaveb 2014 / Timber Structures Year Book 2014 (1st ed., pp. 9–10). Prague: Prodesi.

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    Davidová, M., & Zímová, K. (2017). COLridor: Co-Design and Co-Living for Sustainable Futures. In B. Sevaldson (Ed.), Relating Systems Thinking and Design 6: Environment, Economy, Democracy: Flourishing Together (pp. 1–20). Oslo: Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321371410_COLridor_Co-Design_and_Co-Living_for_Sustainable_Futures

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    Join us in Chernobyl at the Eco-Systemic Co-Design for DIY!

    Eco-Systemic Co-Design for DIY

    Marie Davidová, MArch, Ph.D. & Ing. Arch. Šimon Prokop

    Railway_slavutych-chernobyl (1)The railway lines at Slavutych station, which take commuters to jobs within the en:Zone of alienation around the en:Chernobyl disaster. Photo used under the Creative Commons Licence (Kierant, 2006)

    Due to the disaster in 1986, the Exclusion Zone of Chernobyl gave rise to an exclusive eco-system (Deryabina et al., 2015) that turned the nuclear zone into natural tourist destination. This leads to the question of such adaptation of the local society and their built environment. In the time when we discuss about 80% of biodiversity or biomass loss in Europe, this place is truly unique. The workshop program claims that the community needs to take an advantage of such local specificity and develop their cross-species co-living and co-habitation skills. This will be advanced through community ‘co-design’ (Sanders & Stappers, 2008) with the use of GIGA-Mapping, a visual trans-disciplinary diagramming of complexity (Davidová, 2014, 2017; Davidová & Zímová, 2017; Sevaldson, 2011, 2015). The participants will photograph and draw the local references while seek for their relations. While doing so, they will co-design eco-systemic ‘prototypical urban interventions’ (Doherty, 2005) and one or more of them will be physically prototyped. The reason for prototyping is twofold: 1] it will teach the participants prototyping skills for all the other prototypes realisation; 2] it will develop a particular case study into realisation and its recipe will be placed online so it can be locally adapted and reproduced elsewhere with Creative Commons Non-Commercial Use Licence (Creative Commons, 2017). The link to the recipe will be engraved into the prototype in QR code with its digital ‘Grasshopper algorithmic code’ (Davidson, 2017) for fabrication. Therefore, during the festival event, the prototype will serve as a learning tool for observations and alterations suggestions as well as an advertisement, motivating more interventions. In case, the prototype cannot stay at the place, we will seek to find its permanent location starting with the end of the festival. What emerged from the disaster might fight to become the most sustainable island in Europe that lost its biodiversity and struggles to adapt to climate change. Such systemic relations will be investigated in the GIGA-Mapping that will engage true local specific study within global context. No community co-living situation will emerge from authorities. People usually address as their thing the things they co-create. Let us build the community life from the bottom up!

    Download the Abstract with References Here: MD_WSAbstract

    Register here

    The Event is Organised by 86Festival

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    Join Us at Cyprus!

    We are glad to inform you, that our 6th eCAADe RIS 2018 workshop submission has been accepted!!!!
    We will present a paper on Czech TreeHugger there and than in the evening show its Cyprian adaptation!!!

    TreeHugger:
    The Eco‐Systemic Prototypical Urban Intervention in The United Nations Buffer Zone in Nicosia

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    Figure 1: TreeHugger: Responsive Wood Insect Hotel that offers a variety of climatic and spatial conditions to be met with diverse insects’ preferences. This is achieved by global axis orientation, the shape of the hotel and cutting the panels from different positions of the tree trunk. Please also take note of the social communication and engagement of people and the insect habitation architecture (Photo: Carrithers 2017)

    1 Introduction

    The workshop will be referenced to presented paper with the same name without location, offering hands on experience of prototyping and placing into public space the responsive wood insect hotel, TreeHugger. This eco‐systemic ‘prototypical urban intervention’ (Davidová, 2004; Doherty, 2005) would preferably take place at one of the trees in The United Nations Buffer Zone in Nicosia. The very difficult political‐urban situation gave birth to rich bio‐topes on a bio‐corridor within the, otherwise very anthropocentric, city centre of Nicosia, Cyprus. The research addresses the landscape ecologists’ discussion that our agricultural land has become so toxic (i.e. use of pests) that many species, that had adapted to them hundreds years ago, are recently adapting for the life in the cities. Nearly 80% of flying insects in biomass have disappeared since eighties/nineties in Western Europe from our landscape (Vogel, 2017). In similar percentage follows the decrease of birds that eats them (Czech Ornithologists Association, 2016). As architectural researchers addressing such data, we claim that we need to adapt our anthropocentrically evolved cities for the co‐living situation with other species across the communities.
    The workshop will provide a lecture and consultancy on responsive solid wood system panelling Ray
    and TreeHugger prototype that is presented as a paper at the conference. The hands on will start with adjusting its Grasshopper code to the local tools and local specific parameters. For high speed visual complexity communication, in this case analogue, process‐based diagramming, so called ‘GIGAMapping’ (Davidová, 2014; Sevaldson, 2011, 2013, 2015), will be used. Next to the above mentioned, the participants will explore the responsive solid wood digital fabrication skills, critical public space eco‐systemic intervention skills and most importantly, the performing and interacting prototype’s
    observations registrations. When intervening the public space, you will‐ and need to‐ engage with the locals. Engaging them into the project generates co‐design and avoids vandalism. We will also teach variety of observational tools that can serve to generation of another analytical multi‐media GIGA‐Map and this research’s further exploration.
    The QR code with a link (planned to put on Rhino News) to Grasshopper code and explanation will be engraved into the prototype for the local communities to DIY across the borders and the process GIGA‐Map will be exhibited for learning and interaction. Since it is difficult for humans to cross, they might interact through generating exchangeable habitats of other species. Through questioning the transitions across the (eco‐)systemic boundaries, we propose to question the political, when considering humans taking part of, also the eco‐systemic, struggles from the bottom up!
    Note: For our application in Prague, please, see the paper ‘COLridor: Co‐Design and Co‐Living for Sustainable Futures’ (Davidová & Zímová, 2017) or our facebook page ‘COLridor’ (Davidová, 2017a).

    1.1 Learning Expectations

     Responsive Solid Wood Prototyping and Application Skills
     Eco‐Systemic Urban Intervention and Landscape Understanding Skills
     Grasshopper Code Tools and Local Specificity Environmental Adjustment Skills
     GIGA‐Mapping Skills
     Digital Fabrication Skills
     Eco‐Systemic and Bottom Up Political Performance Interaction and Observation Skills

    2 Lecturers’ Bios:

    2.1 Marie Davidová, MArch., Ph.D.

    is a researcher and main investigator of Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance (SAAP) project currently lead at the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University in Liberec in cooperation with the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. She has defended her PhD thesis ‘Wood as a Primary Medium to Eco‐Systemic Performance: The Case Study in Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance’ (Davidová, 2017b) in Architecture: Theory and Creation in January 2018 at the Czech Technical University in Prague, the Faculty of Architecture, MOLAB Department. The
    thesis was developed under the supervision of Miloš Florián (FLO|W) and Birger Sevaldson (Ocean Design Research Association) and represents an in‐depth case study investigation within SAAP design field. At this faculty, Marie had been also collaborating as a scientific consultant in studios FLO|W and PET‐MAT, since 2013 until 2017 and in 2016‐17, respectively.
    Marie is a practising architect and researcher, founding member and chair of Collaborative Collective practice design‐research network and NGO. She gained her master’s degree in architecture (2007) at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design under the supervision of Birger Sevaldson (Ocean Design Research Association) and Per Kartvedt (Archigram) with a thesis and environment responsive installation ‘HOLOSLO – The Penetrating of Latent’ (Davidová, 2007), that was developed with Systems Oriented Design. Marie had been working as an architect in design research practices Snøhetta and Expology in Oslo, and researching and teaching as a university lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at the University of Science and Technology in
    Trondheim. She has been visiting trans‐disciplinary studio course leader at the Architectural Institute in Prague and at the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University in Liberec, both respectively in collaboration with the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. These two courses focused and resulted in building environment responsive wooden pavilions for moderating urban heat islands in the city of Prague.
    Marie founded and led Trends and Tendencies in Contemporary Architecture reading seminar at the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University in Liberec with the focus on that the today design‐research meets practice. Her last trans‐disciplinary community co‐design built project COLridor is to support bio‐top and bio‐corridor within the city centre of Prague. The research addresses the landscape ecologists’ discussion that our agricultural land has become so toxic (i.e. use of pests) that many species, that had adapted to them hundreds years ago, are recently adapting for the life in the cities. As architectural researchers addressing their data, we claim that we need to adapt our anthropocentrically evolved cities for the co‐living situation with other species across the communities. The project is also using responsive wood concept for variety of
    micro‐climates for dwellings of other species. For the built prototypes – ‘eco‐systemic urban interventions’ ‐ in public space, Marie funded a multi‐genre community festival EnviroCity, to promote her research and sustainable cities in general to public.
    Marie has founded the Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance (SAAP) design field. SAAP is fusion of process‐based fields formally initiated by integration of Systems Oriented Design and Performance Oriented Architecture. It develops methodology and generates theory through experimental practice. SAAP involves Time Based Eco‐Systemic Trans‐Disciplinary Co‐Design that isperformed by both biotic and abiotic agents, including humans. It belongs to broader field of Systemic Design, considering overall eco‐system. Marie has held guest lectures and workshops in this field across Europe, North America, Asia and Africa, where she is also widely published and exhibited.
    This research has been by now financed by grants from EEA and Norway Grants, EEA Grants, 2 Student Grant Competitions from Czech Ministry of Education and by several stipends such as Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology, Research and Education in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe or Mobility Funds from Czech Ministry of Education. The research has also received funds and sponsoring from several Collaborative Collective NGO grant and sponsoring submissions, namely the Forests of the Czech Republic, Skanska, Rothoblaas, Stora Enso, Via Foundation, NUVIT research association and from Collaborative Collective sister practice network. In all these cases, Marie has created the project proposal and afterwards lead the design‐research
    project until its completion and final report. Marie has been volunteering in Prague Central Station Refugee Help Initiative since 2015 where she has been trained in ethics and various sensitivities issues (gender, sex, race, religion, anonymity protection, psychological issues, defence against racist and sexist attacks, etc). She has also training
    in Krav Maga self‐defence course on the practical side point of view in extreme situations. She is practicing Yoga and extensive swimming relaxation exercising. Therefore, she has good experience and mind set to deal with and/or leading diverse teams, communities and social groups.

    2.2 Ing. Arch. Šimon Prokop

    graduated from Faculty of Architecture at Czech Technical University in Prague. His master thesis investigated relationships between music and architecture, mainly musical improvisation and architectonic sketching in studio FLO|W (Prokop, 2015a, 2015b, 2016). After realizing the fact that both architecture and music production main tools need to have a parametric interface to provide full customizability, both fields got together even close. The thesis explored similar these issues. The main milestones, their correlations and proposed way to transcribe musical improvisation into shapes was afterwards used in designing architecture as well as transcription in the opposite way. The architecture was the primary inspiration and the structural driver for musical compositions.
    Šimon teaches CAAD‐Scripting at the MOLAB Department of Design Modelling where emphasises on parametric and generative design. He has been also a scientific consultant in Experimental studio PET‐MAT lead by Henri Achten and Kateřina Nováková, both at the Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University in Prague. He had been a visiting transdisciplinary studio leader together with Marie Davidová at the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University in Liberec in cooperation with the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. Šimon frequently organises and holds workshops of visual programming using
    Grasshopper platform. This covers i.e. the Technical University in Prague, the Architectural Institute Prague, the Technical University of Liberec and variety private companies.
    Šimon is founding member and chair of the management board of PETMAT, z.ú., an NGO based in Prague aiming to promote social responsibility when using plastics. PETMAT is an unofficial spinoff of the Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture, which evolved from a research group at that faculty while working on sponsored research dealing with usage of recycled plastic bottles in architecture. He is also a member of Collaborative Collective NGO where he focuses on parametric and generative design process and optimization tasks. Šimon plays guitar in band called Vít Hasl Band and composes music. Lately he has started developing a new type of guitar called Enkidu with custom guitar builder Jan Běhounek.

    3 Number of Participants

    Around 5‐15 – can be adjusted

    4 Previous Knowledge of the Participants

    No previous knowledge required. We will be happy to welcome participants from various backgrounds with variety of experiences to enrich our research.

    5 Required Infrastructure of the Participants

    Please, bring whatever you find relevant as analysing and recording tools for our workshop proposal. Next to that, we would like to ask you to bring notebook with Grasshopper running and possibly some registering and analysing soft wares based on your preferences (MATlab, Sound Forge, etc.).
    Please, bring your personal physical drawing tools, cameras, video and sound recorders, thermocams and all the variety of recording tools and their players, you imagine.

     

    6 Detailed Timetable

    The workshop will start on May 23rd lunch and last all day May 24th . On March 25th evening will be the presentation of results.

    7.1 23rd May

     12:00 – 13:30 – Common Lunch, Every Team Member Introduces Her/is Self, Skills and Workshop Expectations
     13:30 – 14:30 – Introduction Lecture
     14:30 – 16:30 – Site Registering
     16:30 – 18:30 – GIGA‐Mapping for the Prototypes Local Specificity (site, tools, participants; agenda) and for Performance Registering
     18:30 – Common Dinner with Planning and Concluding Discussion

    7.2 24th May:

     9:30 – 13: 00 – Grasshopper Code Editing + Adjustments in‐ Workshop, of‐ Materials
     13:00 – 14:30 – Lunch Break
     14:30 – 18:30 – Prototyping, Getting the Code, Project Description and Event Opening
    Invitation on Rhino News
     18:30 – 19:30 – Placement in Public Space with its Interaction and Engraved QR Code with a Link to Grasshopper Code for Downloading, Project Description and Event Opening Invitation (Hopefully on Rhino News, else on our Site), GIGA‐Map exhibiting in suitable neighbourhood
    – Discussion on Performance Registering > Following social engagement on site with brought drinks >> PARTY, PARTY

    7.3 25th May:

     Observations of Prototype’s Performance During Symposium Breaks
     TreeHugger Paper for eCAADe RIS Symposium Presentation
     18:30 – Presentation of the built Prototype, process GIGA‐Map and the performance
    registering to eCAADe RIS Participants and to the Local Public we Managed to Engage When Building and Tagging the Place.

    7 Envisioned Outcome

    The eco‐systemic prototypical urban intervention should follow similar mode as the TreeHugger insect hotel responsive wood prototype from Prague (please, see Figure 1, the accepted paper proposal and (Davidová & Zímová, 2017)) . This all has to be adjusted to local environment (ecosystemic: natural, social and cultural), tools and participatory characters and skills that will be available on place. We would be also happy to exhibit the process GIGA‐Map documenting the design process for participatory interaction. The performance registering from the last day of the conference will be discussed and possibly used for the digital GIGA‐Map after the conference.

    8 Register

    Please, register through the official website and contakt Marie Davidova: md@collcoll.cc and Odysseas Kontovourkis: kontovourkis.odysseas@ucy.ac.cy about your selection.

     

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    Davidová, M. (2004). Gary Doherty: On Spatial Dialogues. Stavba, 5(6), 18.
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    PhD Thesis in the Field Defended at CTU in Prague

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    Please, read recent case study in the field by Marie Davidová: Wood as a Primary Medium to Eco-Systemic Performance: A Case Study in Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance

    Abstract:

    The present research considers wood as a study material for a wider question on architecture’s environmental[1] interaction. It aims to explore its potential for eco-systemic[2] performances[3] and atmospheres[4] as well as to broaden the discussion on this problem area by accessing the public space and professional practice calls. My project researches such interactions through practical experiments as well as theoretical reflections, including examinations of other scientific, design, artistic and crafts disciplines. It honestly discusses the successes as well as the failures and weak points to develop a strong background for eco-systemic collaborative design-research practice.

    The methodology Research by Design[5] while full scale prototyping is covered by the Systems Oriented Design[6] to interpret and develop complex environmental relations. While doing so, this work also claims develop the methodology itself and to generate theory through experimental practice. The fusion of these process based fields led to the ratification of new design field: Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance[7].

    This is an article based thesis[8], where the texts of the articles have been shortened of the parts mentioned elsewhere in the work and underwent through language check. These serve as an addendum covered with an exegesis. Most of the repeating images were removed from the articles. If there is an exception this is reasoned through its important relation to the present text.

    All substantial contributions are mentioned within the text and/or summarized in the Thanks chapter. To mention the main institutions and practice/NGO’s respectively, this research has been collaboratively developed at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University of Liberec, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague, the Architectural Institute Prague, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, the Faculty of Civil Engineering the Czech Technical University in Prague, Collaborative Collective, Defio, Oximoron, re.code.nature, CooLAND, Experis SDKM and reSITE.

    This work is a second, revised edition of the thesis, when the first, work in progress, publication called Wood as a Primary Medium to Architectural Performance: A Case Study in Performance Oriented Architecture Approached through Systems Oriented Design (Davidová, 2016m) served as a tool to receive broader feedback from its readers. The first publication was kindly supported by EEA and Norway Grants through the project Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance, was printed on paper with 100% of recycled fibre. This edition was reviewed by a gender equal team and is to be defended in front of a gender equal selection of opponents. The work itself is dedicated to our Biosphere[9].

    [1] ‘Environment is physical and biological surroundings of an organism. The environment covers non-living (abiotic) factors such as temperature, soil, atmosphere and radiation, and also living (biotic) organisms such as plants, microorganisms and animals.’ (Oxford University Press, 2004)

    [2] Ecosystem was described by Allen and Roberts as an ecological system inside the system that includes the geophysical part. (T. F. H. Allen & Roberts, 1993)

    [3] Leatherbarrow is explaining the performance view on construction: ‘…when the preparations of well-designed construction are seen to be inevitably inadequate, when the finished work is understood to be necessarily incomplete, because the world of which it is part is recognized as a field of forces that will, over time and unpredictably, re-qualify what design and construction had pre-qualified.’ (Leatherbarrow, 2013)

    [4] ‘Quality in architecture . . . is to me when a building manages to move me. What on earth is it that moves me? How can I get it into my own work? . . . How do people design things with such a beautiful, natural presence, things that move me every single time. One word for it is Atmosphere.’ (Zumthor, 2006a)

    [5] ‘Research by Design is any kind of inquiry in which design is a substantial part of the research process. In research by design, the architectural design process forms a pathway through which new insights, knowledge, practices or products come into being. Research by design generates critical inquiry through design work that may include realized projects, proposals, possible realities or alternatives. Research by design produces forms of output and discourse proper to disciplinary practice, verbal and non-verbal that make it discussable, accessible and useful to peers and others. Research by design is validated through peer review by panels of experts who collectively cover the range of disciplinary competencies addressed by the work.’ (ResEAAErch, 2017)

    [6] Systems Oriented Design: ‘an approach to learn how to better cope with very complex issues as designers. The approach is influenced and inspired by modern systems thinking and systems practice and inspired by generative diagramming. Design practice, systems thinking, systems practice, design thinking, information visualisation, diagramming, GIGA-mapping, research by design, research through design, design for complexity, sustainability.’ (Sevaldson, 2013c)

    [7] The notion of Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance was first expressed by me in 2016 as a title for collaborative project among me, Birger Sevaldson, Michael Hensel and Miloš Florián that was fusing Performance Oriented Architecture and Systems Oriented Design. This project was supported by EEA and Norway Grants as a bilateral partnership program between the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University of Liberec and the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (Davidová, 2016k, 2016l). The project’s continuation among the same design – researchers participants for the bilateral partnership between the CTU in Prague and the Oslo School of Architecture and Design has been recently submitted for funding to the same donor.

    [8] PhD Thesis Requirements at CTU in Prague: ‘1. A dissertation is the result of solving a particular scientific or artistic task; PhD student demonstrates the ability to work independently in a creative way and it must contain original authorship of the dissertation published results of scientific or artistic work or results accepted for publication; 2. A general theme or themes of dissertation are offered during the admissions procedure on the basis of the future supervisor, followed by the recommendation of the head of the training department and the consent of the Scientific Committee. A more specific definition of the topic within the thematic area is possible upon an agreement between the supervisor and the candidate; 3. The title of the dissertation, including its load is set at the latest at the end of the study unit on the basis of the submitted studies and debates on the topic of dissertation under – see Art. 27 paragraph. 7th; 4. The dissertation can be recognized and accepted as a set of publications or manuscripts joint by an integrating text; 5. dissertation is written in Czech, Slovak or English. Applicants may, with the agreement of the President of the Scientific Committee, submit a dissertation in one of the other world languages. Other formal requirements for dissertation is specified by the dean of the faculty. If the work does not meet these formal requirements it may be not accepted by department for science and research for further proceedings. In case of doubt the decision is concluded by the Dean. (Konvalinka, 2015)

    >> PhD Thesis Requirements at FA CTU in Prague: ‘Formal and Content of State doctoral examinations, dissertation and its defence is specified in the requirements and recommendations for additional SER CTU.’ (Lábus, 2016)

    >> Additional PhD Thesis Requirements and Recommendations by SER CTU: ‘Also dissertation as a set of publications or accepted manuscripts joined by integrating text can be recognized. Dissertation is written in Czech, Slovak or English language… …Dissertation has the following formalities and obligatorily includes: 1. The cover or first page: marking the university, the faculty and supervising department, dissertation title, ‘Doctoral Thesis’ title, name of the PhD candidate, the year of submission, supervisor’s name, study program, field of study; 2. In the introductory part: target of the dissertation and an overview of the current state of the science issues (with references to literature); 3. In the final part: overview of results, including the original dissertation doctoral student contribution (i.e. a brief overview of the results of dissertation and how to improve the current situation), the conclusions for future the advancement of science or for implementation in practice; 4. One-page abstract in English.’ (Fialová, 2016)

    [9] Biosphere is ‘irregularly shaped envelope of the earth’s air, water, and land encompassing the heights and depths at which living things exist. The biosphere is a closed and self-regulating system (see ecology), sustained by grand-scale cycles of energy and of materials—in particular, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, certain minerals, and water. The fundamental recycling processes are photosynthesis, respiration, and the fixing of nitrogen by certain bacteria. Disruption of basic ecological activities in the biosphere can result from pollution.’ (Lagasse & Columbia University, 2016)

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    COLridor X-Mass Tree Present

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    Dear Friends,
    it is soon X-Mass. Therefore, we decided to give TreeHugger code for tinkering givers under the non-commercial use under the Creative Commons​ Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
    Please, download the Grasshopper for Rhino​ code till 24th December here
    Please, read about the system Ray to understand the prototyping here (warning, Ray itself is under patenting process and can not be used other way than as Ray 4 on TreeHugger):
    Davidová, M. (2016). Ray 3: The Performative Envelope. In M. S. Uddin & M. Sahin (Eds.), 2016 DCA European Conference: Inclusiveness in Design (pp. 519–525). Istanbul: Özyeğin University. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307934969_Ray_3_The_Performative_Envelope
    Davidová, M. (2017). Co-Habited, Co-Lived, Co-Designed and Co-Created Eco-Systemic Responsiveness in Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance: A Case Study on Interaction of Performative Solid Wood Envelope Ray and Algae. In M. João de Oliveira & F. Crespo Osório (Eds.), KINE[SIS]TEM: From Nature to Architectural Matter (pp. 36–45). Lisbon: DINÂMIA’CET-IUL ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317819704_Co-Habited_Co-Lived_Co-Designed_and_Co-Created_Eco-Systemic_Responsiveness_in_Systemic_Approach_to_Architectural_Performance_A_Case_Study_on_Interaction_of_Performative_Solid_Wood_Envelope_Ray_and_Alg
    Davidová, M., & Zímová, K. (2017). COLridor: Co-Design and Co-Living for Sustainable Futures. In B. Sevaldson (Ed.),
    Relating Systems Thinking and Design 6: Environment, Economy, Democracy: Flourishing Together (pp. 1–20). Oslo: Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321371410_COLridor_Co-Design_and_Co-Living_for_Sustainable_Futures

    Go to licence explanation here: <a rel=”license” href=”http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/”>Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a>

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    EC17 is Over… To Be Continued….

    We are happy to close the September reverberations and therefore this year so successfully! // EC 2017 je za náma! Projděte si záříjové dozvuky 🙂

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    We started with an excellent workshop by Linda Blaasvær on GIGA-Mapping interests, engagements and visions within the community. The workshop was very successful and engaged more members of the community into the action and speculations on their future development.

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    ‘Who We Are / Who Are We’ workshop by Linda Blaasvær (photo: Carrithers 2017)

    We very much enjoyed to join the European Heritage Days by our Sunday lectures on studies of Norwegian and Czech traditional architectures. Namely on semi-interior spaces in extreme climates that invites for eco-systemic interaction across biotic and abiotic agents. And the history of Czech settlements based on environmental conditions and the development of the oldest human co-living with other species in Czechia, bee keeping. We ended the session with our precious dancer Jana Vrána’s contemporary dance performance called: Biological Co-Dance making the event spectacular.

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    Marie Davidová and Dana Raková Presenting Their Svalgangs and Skuts Survey in Norway (photo: Carrithers 2017)

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    Martin Čerňanský from the National Heritage Association Presenting Czech Urban Development and Bee Keeping  (photo: Carrithers 2017)

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    Jana Vrána’s Dance Performance: Biological Co-Dance (photo: Carrithers 2017)

    The Sunday was pretty awesome. We started with VR game by Keteřina Horák Goryczka and Jan Horák, mapping our area with bumble bee until you reach its hotel. Than we continued in a serious way with our most precious guest, Birger Sevaldson, discussing Systems Oriented Design in relation  to Environmental Business and Democracy. Birger took us through solid theoretical background to argue for public activism and consciousness. You can download his brilliant lecture hare:Designing for Environment Business and Democracy Contradictions and Synergies

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    VR game Bumblerun by Keteřina Horák Goryczka and Jan Horák in Public Space of Nusle Stairs (photo: Carrithers 2017)

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    Birger Sevaldson’s Lecture for Local Community: Designing for Environment Business and Democracy: Contradictions and Synergies (photo: Carrithers 2017)

    On Wednesday was our closing day and it was just great!  Jan Bárta related by interactive performance to the community engagement and togetherness. It brought both feelings – some more open than expected; – some less…

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    Jan Bárta: Standing up- vol.2 Performance  (Photo: Pánková 2017)

    We continued with the evaluation or our project and contemplated on the results and our futures. This helped with suggestions from the community for future engagements and directions and also their appreciation and involvement.

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    Marie Davidová, Šimon Prokop, Kateřina Zímová and Michaela Pánková: Vyhodnocení – Evaluation COLridoru a EnviroCity (Photo: Horák Goryczka 2017)

    We closed the EC in big style with Lunchmeat Studio performance! So far, so good!!!!

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    Lunchmeat Eco-Systemic Closing Performance (Photo: Go 2017)

    So, we ended and sure it did not end…. We co-organized and joined Zažít město jinak/Experience the City Other Way….

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    Marie Davidová at Zažít město jinak/Experience the City Other Way City Communities Festival Presenting COLridor project and EnviroCity Festival (Photo: Pánková 2017)

     

    Love U All and CU Soon!!!

    by systemicapproachtoarchitecturalperformance

    September EnviroCity’s Reverberations Program is Ready, See What Was on in July

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    GIGA-mapping Svalgangs 2016 (the map of Norway is a public source from: Central Intelligence Agency: https://www.cia.gov/ the macro climatic diagrams are used with the courtesy of yr.no reached at yr, 2016) 

    September will be a lot about Systems Oriented Design. We will start with GIGA-Mapping workshop by Linda Blaasær from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The weekend after we will discuss GIGA-Mapping of performance of traditional Norwegian architecture by Marie Davidová (Collaborative Collective, FUA TUL, FA CTU) and Dana Raková (FUA TUL). On Sunday, we will welcome our biggest star, Birger Sevaldson from the Ocean Design Research Association and the Oslo School of Architecture and Design who will discuss design for democracy and sustainability. We can also look forward to the lecture by Jan Čerňanský from Czech National Heritage Institute on the ecosystemic performance of Czech traditional architecture. All of this will be highlighted by dance performance by Jana Vrána, VR performance by Kateřina Horák Goryczka and Jan Horák and mimic performance by Jan Bárta. We will close the reverberations with EnviroCity’s evaluation and staring audio-visual performance by LUNCHMEAT.

    Please, follow our events on EnviroCity’s Facebook or see the full programe:

    2. 9. – 19:00 – 23:00 & 3. 9. – 11:00 – 15:00– Linda Blaasvær: Kdo jsme – Kdo jsme // Giga–mapování pro sdílené hodnoty komunit I /// Giga mapping for a shared understanding on community values // Who are we – Who we are

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    Linda Blaasvær Manuela Aguirre and GIGA-Mapping Workshop with Tønsberg Library (Photo: Aguirre 2015)

    workshop – bude zajištěn překlad do češtiny a občerstvení // Refreshments Covered, registrujte se na//register at: marie.davidova@tul.cz – Excelsior

    9.9. – 18.30– Marie Davidová & Dana Raková: Biodiverzita a adaptace na změnu klimatu skrze tradiční architekturu – příklady z klimatických extrémů // Biodiversity and Climate Change Adaptation Through Traditional Architecture

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    Marie Davidová and Dana Raková: Svalgangs Mapping (Photo: Raková 2017)

    přednáška // lecture – bude zajištěno občerstvení // Refreshments Covered – Excelsior

    událost je součástí Dnů evrpopského kulturního dědictví // the event is part of European Heritage Days

    9.9. –19.30– Martin Čerňanský: Venkovské sídelní prostředí, krajinný ráz a ekosystém //Vernacular Settlements Environment, Landscape and Ecosystem

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    Bee Haves in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm (Čerňanský n.d.)

    přednáška // lecture – bude zajištěno občerstvení // Refreshments Covered – Excelsior

    událost je součástí Dnů evrpopského kulturního dědictví // the event is part of European Heritage Days

    9.9. –21.30– Jana Vrána: Biological Co-Dance

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    EnviroCity 2014 Opening: Loop pavilion; Light Performance: Lunchmeat; Dance Performance: Jana Vrána (photo: Dvořák 2014)

    tanční performance // dance performance – burčák s sebou, možnost občerstvení v Excelsioru // Refreshments Reachable from Excelsior – Schody // Stairs

    10.9. –16.30– Kateřna Horák Goryczka & Jan Horák: Bumble Run

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    Kateřna Horák Goryczka a Jan Horák WIP on the Performance (Horák Goryczka 2017)

    VR performance – burčák s sebou, možnost občerstvení v Excelsioru // Refreshments Reachable from Excelsior – Schody // Stairs

    10.9. –18.00– Birger Sevaldson: Navrhování pro environmentální businessy a demokracii: Rozpory a soulady /// Designing for Environment Business and Democracy: Contradictions and Synergies

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    Birger Sevaldson: Design for Democracy Course GIGA-Map 2016

    přednáška // lecture – bude zajištěn překlad do češtiny a občerstvení // Refreshments Covered – Excelsior

    13.9. –18.30– Jan Bárta: Standing Up Volume II: Stmelování sociálních skupin jako součást ekosystému

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    Jan Bárta (photo: Tereza Jakoubková 2017)

    stand-up comedy performance – burčák s sebou, možnost občerstvení v Excelsioru // Refreshments Reachable from Excelsior – Schody // Stairs

    13.9. –19.30– Marie Davidová, Kateřina Zímová, Šimon Prokop, Michaela Pánková: Vyhodnocení COLridoru a EnviroCity: Čeho jsme dosáhly/i a kam dál ????// COLridor and EnviroCity Evaluation

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    Marie Davidová: COLridor Project and EnviroCity Festival GIGA-Map on Stakeholders and Actions Processes 2017

    přednáška a diskuse // lecture and discussion – burčák s sebou, možnost občerstvení v Excelsioru // Refreshments Reachable from Excelsior – Schody // Stairs

     

    13.9. –21.00– LUNCHMEAT Closing Performance

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    EnviroCity 2014 Opening: Loop pavilion; Light Performance: Lunchmeat; Dance Performance: Jana Vrána (photo: Dvořák 2014)

    AV performance – burčák s sebou, možnost občerstvení v Excelsioru // Refreshments Reachable from Excelsior – Schody // Stairs

     

    To look back after July’s reverberations, the events were on human-environmental interactions, joining today digital technologies with eco-systemic environment. We opened the reverberations and Šimon Prokop used environmental sound data for music generation. Ben James created VR app for environmental development speculations. And Karolína Kotnourová generated interactive bat mapping from ultra-sound recordings.

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    Šimon Prokop: Architektonicko-Zvuková Bio-preformace v Reálném čase – mapování místního biotopu // Architectural-Sound Bio-Performance in Real Time – Mapping of Local Biotop (photo: Carrithers 2017)

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    Ben James: Mixed Realities: Make Prague Great Again! (photo: Carrithers 2017)

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    Karolína Kotnourová: Bat(d)sound (photo: Carrithers 2017)

    So far, so good! Thanks a lot and keep in touch in September!

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    Thanks a Lot for EnviroCity 2017 and Looking forward to See You at Reverberations!

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    Figure 1: EnviroCity GIGA-Map (Marie Davidová and coll. 2017) – GIGA-Mapa EnviroCity Festivalu (Marie Davidová a kol. 2017)

    The main program of EnviroCity 2017 is over. Thanks a lot to all involved! We are looking forward to meet again at reverberations starting end of July!

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    Hlavní program EnviroCity 2017 je za námi. Děkujeme všem, kdo se na něm podíleli a těšíme se na další shledání na dozvucích koncem června!

    Please, see the images from the main program and look back bellow:

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    Projděte si obrázky z hlavního programu a poohlédněte se za festivalem:

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    Figure 2: Marie Davidová and Michaela Pánková are opening the Festival (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017) – Marie Davidová a Michaela Pánková zahajují festival (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 3: Marie Davidová on  COLridor Project (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017) – Marie Davidová vypráví o projektu COLridor (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 4: Kateřina Zímová on  COLridor Project (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017) – Kateřina Zímová vypráví o projektu COLridor (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 5: Šimon Prokop on  COLridor Project (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017) – Šimon Prokop vypráví o projektu COLridor (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 6: Marie Davidová opening the EnviroCity GIGA-Map Exhibition in partnering local Excelsior Pub (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017) – Marie Davidová otevírá vístavu GIGA-Mapy festivalu EnviroCity v lokální partnerské restauraci Excelsior Pub (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 7: Audio-Visual Performance of Andrea Pekárková: Visual Diversity in Local Chapel (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017) – Audio-Vizuální Performance Andrei Pekárkové: Vizuální diverzita v místní kapli (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 8: Local Bat Mapping Ultra-Sound  Recordings Translated to Sound Introduced by Kateřina Zímová (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017) –  Představení ultrazvukových záznamů mapování netopýrů v lokalitě konvertovaných do zvuku Kateřinou Zímovou (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 9: Morning PickNick with Birds – Local Bird Mapping Performed by Kateřina Zímová (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017) –  Ranní piknik s ptáky a mapování jejich druhů produkované Kateřinou Zímovou (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 10: SeedBombs Workshop by Kateřina Zímová (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017) – Seed Bombs: Jedlá krajina – restaurace pro čmeláky a včely I od Kateřiny Zímové (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 11: Michaela Pixová on Radical Emancipation within the Cities (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017)  – Michaela Pixová o radikální emancipaci ve městě (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 12: Debate on Bio-Corridors within the City and its Relation to Bio-Top Zvonařka (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017)  – Debata na téma biokoridorů ve městě ve vztahu k biotopu na Zvonařce (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 13: Marie Davidová: Biological Co-Design, Co-Living and Co-Creation on Responsive Screen Ray (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017)  – Marie Davidová: Biologický Co-Design, Co-Living a Co-Creation na responsivní stěně Ray (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 14: Community Brunch with Initiatives for Eco-Systemic Co-Living (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017) –  Komunitní brunch s iniciativami pro ekosystemické soužití (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 15: Jana Novorytová and col.:  BODYSTAIRS Dance Performance (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017) –  Jana Novorytová: TĚLOSCHODY taneční performance (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 15: Jana Novorytová and col.:  BODYSTAIRS Dance Performance (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017) –  Jana Novorytová: TĚLOSCHODY taneční performance (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 17: SeedBombs Workshop by Kateřina Zímová and Radka Tyslová (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017) – Seed Bombs: Jedlá krajina – restaurace pro čmeláky a včely II od Kateřiny Zímové a Radky Tyslové (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 18: Darina Alster: Sea Siren (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017)  – Darien Alster: Mořská Siréna (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 19: Markéta Gebrian: Floral Vegetable Fantasies: Virtual Gardens for Cities (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017)  –  Markéta Gebrian: Květinově Rostlinné Fantazie: Virtuální Zahrady pro Města (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 20: Marie Davidová Looking Back after EnviroCity Main Program (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017) – Marie Davidová: Poohlédnutí se za hlavním programem festivalu EnviroCity (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    Figure 21: Pilgrimage of st Methard in Local Chapel and local history discussion by Old Catholic Church  (photo: Robert Carrithers 2017)  – Pouť sv. Medarda a vyprávění o historii lokality od Starokatolické církve (foto: Robert Carrithers 2017)

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    SAAP Was Supported by EEA Grants!

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    We are very glad to announce our new initiative among FUA TUL and AHO that was supported by EEA Grants!

    Naše nová iniciativa mezi FUA TUL a AHO byla podpořena EHP Fondy!

    This initiative is focused on awareness and in-depth knowledge in the field of biodiversity and ecosystemic services.  The community multi-genre festival EnviroCity and its reverberations that serves to support monitoring and analysis of the local biotope, will engage general public as well as professional audience of wider range of types. There will be also performed study on mapping svalgangs, the semi-interior space of Norwegian traditional architecture, for monitoring and adaptation to climate change and an article about it will be sent to reviewing process. The study will be presented at festival EnviroCity’s reverberations. This will support the development of the study. The initiative is than to support all fields of the call of the program: Biodiversity and ecosystemic services, Monitoring and integrated planning, Climate change adaptation and its popularisation.

    The iniciative Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance (SAAP) is a continuation of the project with the same name (Davidová, 2016a, 2016b) that was supported last year within CZ07 – Scholarship Programme and Bilateral Scholarship Programme by EEA and Norway Grants. This project resulted in a fusion of process-based fields formally initiated by integration of Systems Oriented Design (SOD) (Sevaldson, 2013) and Performance Oriented Architecture (POA) (Hensel, 2015) and was ratified as its own design field. The fields have been founded and developed at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and therefore there is better experience in the area. SAAP develops methodology and generates theory through experimental practice. This initiative will develop this concept further through common collaborative public events and actions and in depth expert study and thus will support publicity of biodiversity and ecosystemic services in the Czech Republic and its settlements adaptation to climate change.

    The initiative is to support community transdisciplinary activity for supporting bio-top at Nusle Stairs within Prague city centre (Davidová, 2017). The activity is to generate biodiversity within the location and through co-design and public events to support eco-systemic co-living and public understanding and pride of being part of such system. The public events, covered by EnviroCity festival (Davidová & Kernová, 2016; Kernová, 2014) will generate research studies and future co-design themselves. Invited presenters have to relate to the bio-top project and have to interpret it through their profession and art-performance-design-research-science field. Since the initiative is long lasting Time Based Eco-Systemic Co-Design, EnviroCity will have a strong effect on local built environment development.

    Through study trips for traditional architecture research in more extreme locations, the field investigation will be extended towards architectural adaptation to climate change as weather extremes are expected in our locations (Czech Republic Ministry of the Environment & Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, 2015; Flæte et al., 2010). These studies will map eco-systemic interaction of semi-interior spaces called svalgangs, the spaces between exterior and interior. Please, see RSD5 paper, related to this topic (Davidová, 2016a). Through the combination of soft and hard data from digital devices, cameras but also personal experience expressions, the study will cover the options for adaptation to the extremes approaching Czech Republic in broader complexity.

    Festival EnviroCity with its reverberations and svalgangs mapping are tightly interconnected when one activity supports the other through its events. Both together are to support ecosystemic adaptation to climate change, when we will through non-anthropocentric architecture (Hensel, 2015) interact with other species through spaces, that are neither interior nor exterior, or through actions in public space.

     

    Iniciativa se zaměřuje na rozšíření povědomí a prohloubení vědomostí v oblasti biodiverzita a ekosystémové služby. V zásadě komunitní, multi-žánrový festival EnviroCity a jeho dozvuky sloužící k podpoře, monitorování a analýze místního biotopu bude pracovat s odbornou i laickou veřejností širšího spektra. Bude také zhotovena studie Mapování svalgangů, mezi-interiérových prostorů norské tradiční architektury, k monitorování a adaptaci na změnu klimatu, kterou v rámci iniciativy jako článek zašleme do recenzního řízení. Tato aktivita bude také prezentována na dozvucích festivalu EnviroCity, což pomůže v jejím vývoji. Iniciativa tedy přispěje k přímé akci ve všech oblastech programu CZ02: Biodiverzita a ekosystémové služby, Monitorování a integrované plánování a kontrola v životním prostředí, Adaptace na změnu klimatu a v jejich popularizaci.

    Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance (SAAP) (Davidová, 2016b, 2016c)  navazuje na stejnojmenný projekt, podpořený loni programem CZ07. Výsledkem byla fúze procesy orientovaných směrů, formálně iniciovaná integrací směrů Systems Oriented Design (SOD) (Sevaldson, 2013) a Performance Oriented Architecture (POA) (Hensel, 2015). To vrcholí časově založeným Eko-Systemickým Co-Designem, který zahrnuje biotické i abiotické účastníky, včetně lidí. Iniciativa se bude vyvíjet s našimi norskými partnery, protože tyto směry byly a jsou právě na Oslo School of Architecture and Design založeny a vyvíjeny a mají bohatší zkušenosti než my. Tento koncept skrze další společné veřejné události a akce, odbornou, do hloubky vypracovanou, studii, se zasadí o rozvinutí a propagaci biodiverzity a ekosystémických služeb v České Republice a její adaptaci na změnu klimatu v rámci sídel.

    V rámci iniciativy bude propagována komunitní, transdisciplinární aktivita pro podporu biotopu na Nuselských Schodech v Praze (Davidová, 2017), která má za cíl vytvořit biologickou rozmanitost v lokalitě a prostřednictvím co-designu. Skrze veřejné akce chceme podpořit eko-systemické spolužití, veřejné porozumění a hrdosti bytí součástí eko-systému obyvatel prostřednictvím festivalu EnviroCity. Veřejné aktivity festivalu EnviroCity (Davidová & Kernová, 2016; Kernová, 2014) budou generovat jak publicitu, tak výzkumné studie a budoucí co-design samy o sobě. Pozvaní vystupující se musejí vztáhnout k studii bio-topu prostřednictvím své profese: uměním, performancí, designem, výzkumem či vědou. Vzhledem k tomu, že aktivita je dlouhotrvající časově založený, eko-systemický co-design, EnviroCity bude mít silný vliv na místní vývoj městské krajiny.

    Prostřednictvím analýzy svalgangů, zaměřené na výzkum tradiční architektury extrémnějších klimat v Norsku, bude pole rozšířeno směrem k architektonické adaptaci na změnu klimatu v ČR, protože právě tyto extrémy, na které naše architektura nemá odpověď, nyní přívalech zažíváme v ČR. Tyto studie zmapují ekologicky systémové interakce mezi-interiérových, neklimatizovaných prostorů mezi exteriérem a interiérem, blíže článek pro RSD5 (Davidová, 2016a). Kombinací měkkých a tvrdých dat z přístrojů, fotografií i expresí pocitů komplexně obsáhneme možnosti k adaptaci na extrémy přicházející do ČR.

    Festival EnviroCity a jeho dozvuky a mapování svalgangů jsou aktivně propojeny, jedna aktivita podporuje druhou skrze své akce pro interakci s laickou i odbornou veřejností. Obě dohromady pak přispějí k ekosystemické adaptaci na změnu klimatu, kdy skrze neantropocentrickou architekturu (Hensel, 2015) budeme interagovat s ostatními druhy skrze prostory, které nejsou ani interiér ani exteriér, či přímé akce ve veřejném prostoru.

     

    References/Reference:

    Czech Republic Ministry of the Environment, & Czech Hydrometeorological Institute. (2015). Strategie přizpůsobení se změně klimatu v podmínkách ČR / Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Czech Republic. (Centre for Environment at Charles University & Prague, Eds.) (1st ed.). Prague: Czech Republic Ministry of the Environment. Retrieved from http://www.mzp.cz/C1257458002F0DC7/cz/zmena_klimatu_adaptacni_strategie/$FILE/OEOK-Adaptacni_strategie-20151029.pdf

    Davidová, M. (2004). Gary Doherty: On Spatial Dialogues. Stavba, 5(6), 18.

    Davidová, M. (2016a). Socio-Environmental Relations of Non-Discrete Spaces and Architectures: Systemic Approach to Performative Wood. In P. Jones (Ed.), Relating Systems Thinking and Design 2016 Symposium Proceedings (pp. 1–17). Toronto: Systemic Design Research Network. Retrieved from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-0w-H8C5IDCWEtScUlNaVNrX1E/view

    Davidová, M. (2016a). Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance. Retrieved January 17, 2017, from https://www.facebook.com/systemicapproachtoarchitecturalperformance/?ref=br_tf

    Davidová, M. (2016b). Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance. Retrieved March 29, 2016, from https://systemicapproachtoarchitecturalperformance.wordpress.com/

    Davidová, M. (2016b). Wood as a Primary Medium to Architectural Performance: A Case Study in Performance Oriented Architecture Approached through Systems Oriented Design. Technical University of Liberec, Faculty of Art and Architecture. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307957987_Wood_as_a_Primary_Medium_to_Architectural_Performance_A_Case_Study_in_Performance_Oriented_Architecture_Approached_through_Systems_Oriented_Design

    Davidová, M. (2017). COLridor. Retrieved March 31, 2017, from https://www.facebook.com/COLridor/

    Davidová, M., & Kernová, M. (2016). EnviroCity – Facebook. Retrieved April 1, 2016, from https://www.facebook.com/envirocity/

    Doherty, G. (2005). Prototypes in Pinkenba. In Nordes 2005 – In the Making (Vol. 0, pp. 1–5). Kopenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. Retrieved from http://www.nordes.org/opj/index.php/n13/article/view/262/245

    Flæte, O., Bardalen, A., Dalen, L., Drange, H., Gjærum, I., Hanssen-Bauer, I., … Aanestad, J. (2010). Adapting to a changing climate: Norway’s vulnerability and the need to adapt to the impacts of climate change. Oslo. Retrieved from https://www.regjeringen.no/contentassets/00f70698362f4f889cbe30c75bca4a48/pdfs/nou201020100010000en_pdfs.pdf

    Hensel, M. (2015). Performance-Oriented Design. Retrieved April 3, 2016, from http://www.performanceorienteddesign.net/

    Kernová, M. (2014). EnviroCity. Retrieved April 1, 2016, from http://envirocity.cz/

    Sevaldson, B. (2013). Systems Oriented Design. Retrieved October 1, 2013, from http://www.systemsorienteddesign.net/

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    GIGA-Mapping New Coming Cultures in Tunis

    Last week, Marie Davidová held a GIGA-Mapping workshop on appreciation of new coming cultures through their culture and invited lecture on Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance at RAID conference focused on post digital age at Ecole Superieur des Sciences et TEchnologie du Design (المدرسة العليا لعلوم وتكنولوجيات التصميم) in Tunis, Tunisia. In the 2,5 hours transdisciplinary workshop, we mapped the impacts of cultural exchange across the world. The result is a field map with registering impacts and their interpretations. The lecture was introducing the new design field as a fusion of process-based fields into Time Based Eco-Systemic Co-Design that involves both, biotic and abiotic agents, including humans.

    Workshop Participants: Selmi Chauna, Khenissi Miriam, Hajji Moez, Merwa Kachoukh

    WP_20170428_11_01_39_ProFigure 1: Designing the System of Mapping (Photo: Davidová 2017)

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    Figure 2: GIGA-Mapping the Appreciation of New Comming Cultures (photo: Davidová 2017)

    WP_20170428_12_49_27_ProFigure 3: The Result 2,5 Hours Workshop GIGA-Map (photo: Davidová 2017)

     

     

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    Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance is a a Design Field!

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    Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance is ratified as fusion of process based fields formally initiated by integration of Systems Oriented Design and Performance Oriented Architecture. It develops methodology and generates theory through experimental practice.

    SAAP involves Time Based Eco-Systemic Co-Design that involves both, biotic and abiotic agents, including humans.

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    Download Wood as a Primary Medium to Architectural Performance on Research Gate!

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    (photo: Mládek)

    Ten days ago, we launched the hard-cover publication Wood as a Primary Medium to Architectural Performance. Since today, you can download it on Research Gate. Have a good read!

    /Stáhněte si Wood as a Primary Medium to Architectural Performance na Research Gate!

    From the book/z knihy:

    The present research considers wood as a study material for a wider question
    on architecture’s environmental interaction. It aims to explore its potential for architectural performance and atmospheres as well as to broaden the discussion on this problem area by accessing the public space. My project researches such interactions through practical experiments as well as theoretical reflections, including examinations of other scientific, artistic and crafts disciplines and honestly discusses both the successes as well as the failures and weak points to develop a strong background for architectural and urban design practice.
    The methodology Research by Design while full scale prototyping is covered by the Systems Oriented Design to interpret and develop complex environmental relations.
    This is an article based thesis, where the texts of the articles have not been changed
    and serve as an addendum covered with an exegesis. Most of the repeating images were
    removed from the articles. If there is an exception this is reasoned through its important
    relation to the present text.
    All the substantial contributions are mentioned within the text and/or summarized in
    the Thanks section. To mention the main institutions and practice/NGO’s respectively,
    this research has been developed at the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical
    University of Liberec, the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague, the Architectural Institute Prague, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, Collaborative Collective, Defio, Oximoron, re.code.nature and reSITE.

    The publication of the thesis was kindly supported by EEA and Norway Grants through the
    project Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance, is printed on paper with 100%
    of recycled fibre and is dedicated to my family, friends, colleagues, students and everyone
    interested in the field.

    Endless Thanks chapter says all:

    “First I would like to offer my sincere gratitude to my supervisors, Miloš Florián from the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University (FA CTU), Birger Sevaldson from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and Ocean Design Research Association and Zdeněk Fránek from the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University of Liberec (FUA TUL) and Fránek Architects, for providing great support and inspiration during my work. A special thanks to Birger for very precisely reviewing the thesis.

    Many thanks are also directed to Cyril Říha from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (AAAD), Department of Arts Theory, who has been asking critical questions about my work and critically reviewed the written text and to Peter Buš from ETH Zürich for fast review of the final stage of the thesis.

    My great appreciation is sent to Monika Mitášová from the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of Trnava University and to Michael Ulrich Hensel the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and Ocean Design Research Association for agreeing on being opponents for the thesis.

    I express sincere gratitude to Matthew Krimmel from the Institute of Language Education (IJV) for language review.

    I highly appreciate my cooperation with Jan Škuta from Škuta Design, who is the author of graphic design of the printed and PDF version of the thesis and posters within the project Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance and corporate identity design for EnviroCity Festival.

    Many thanks to Eva Nováková for the formatting of the Word document of the thesis.

    Great thanks belong to all my dear friends and colleagues from Collaborative Collective for their fantastic support and inspiration before and during the project in various ways, without whom it would never be able to reach its dimensions and ambitions.

    Special thanks to my closest pavilion co-workers Šimon Prokop from the MOLAB, FA CTU in Prague and Collaborative Collective and Martin Gsandtner from the CIEE Global Architecture and Design Program and re.code.nature for providing Grasshopper leadership within the pavilions projects. Also to Martin Šichman from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Faculty of Architecture and Oximoron for being the leader in tooling and detailing within the pareSITE pavilion project and to Jan Zatloukal from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Experis DSKM, s.r.o. for solution and periodical checks of the LOOP pavilion when we experienced structural problems.

    Very heartfelt gratitude belongs to all the students of FLD CZU, ARCHIP and FUA TUL for their work. Namely, thanks to Jiří Šmejkal and Alena Novotná for their great involvement.

    My great thanks is owed to the academy co-operators: Jiří Suchomel, the vice dean at FUA TUL for the great cooperation with FUA TUL. Alsoto Regina Loukotová, the dean of ARCHIP, for her great cooperation with ARCHIP and to Irena Fialová, the vice dean at FA CTU in Prague and to Zdeňka Němcová Zedníčková, the vice dean at FUA TUL for all the support during my studies.

    For leadership of great cooperation during the pavilion projects I would like to especially thank Martin Böhm and Jan Bomba from the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences at the Czech University of Life Sciences (FLD CZU). Pavel Novák, from the FLD CZU, was a great workshop leader and co-worker in the carpenters’ workshop as well as support for the pavilion measuring. My great thanks belongs to Aleš Zeidler, from the FLD CZU, who was a great consultant within the solid wood material science and to Radim Sýkora and Martin Sviták, from the FLD CZU, who were a great co-operators for CNC milling.

    Carpenters Petr Bouma, Aleš Kořínek and their co-workers from Defio, s.r.o. also deserve much appreciation for their work on development and prototyping of the project Ray.

    My big thanks belongs to Vladimír Kočí, from the Institute of Chemical Technology for conceptualising, modelling and consulting interpretations of LCA analysis.

    Many thanks to Michaela Kernová/Pánková for her excellent program management of the EnviroCity Festival, giving it a professional and educational atmosphere, to all its performers and to Milota Sidorová, Martin Barry and Osamu Okamura for their cooperation with the reSITE festival.

    I would like to thank to my sister Václava Davidová for keeping my Ray prototypes in her courtyard and to her neighbours the Stará family for their everyday observations of its performance at the times I could not be present. I certainly must not forget to mention my thanks to my friend David Hlouch for his adventurous transportation of the Ray 2 prototype from Defio, s.r.o. to the site.

    I should also not forget to thank my dear friend Synnøve Landvik and her family for providing background for my stays and travels in Norway while all the time offering boundless support.

    Special thanks to Terje Planke from Norsk Folkemuseet, Oslo for the consultancy and measurements enabling and to Jon Bojer Godal from Nordmøre Museum, Norway for consultancy and references.

    I would like to thank Knut Einar Larsen, my former colleague from the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, for discussing references on Norwegian traditional panelling; to Josef Šanda, from AAAD who provided his consultancy in material science and references; to algologists Jiří Komárek, from the Třeboň department of the Institute of Botany and Jiří Neústupa, from the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University of Prague, for providing their samples and consultancy; to Ladislav Bakay from the Department of Planting Design and Maintenance, Horticulture and Landscape Engineering Faculty, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra for providing data on carbon emissions for LCA analysis; to Helena Pánková, from Matério, who has supported my research with building materials consultancy; to Josef Kudrna, an axeman, who offered his consultancy from his practical experience with wood-humidity interaction and to Pavel Kašpar from Acolor, s.r.o. for samples and consultations on different stain preservatives. There were also many other consultants directly involved through the students, mainly from various faculties of The Technical University of Liberec and The Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences at The Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague.

    I would like to express my appreciation for the support from my friends and colleagues at the MOLAB department at the Faculty of Architecture at The Czech Technical University in Prague.

    Many thanks are owed to the FUA TUL administrative staff, most of all to Eva Konopová and to Marta Petrová, for their great assistance with grants and study issues.

    I also would like to thank those who granted me permission for utilisation of their images and to all the photographers without whom my thesis would be much less enriched.

    This project would have never happened without the kind support of Collaborative Collective, EEA and Norway Grants, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences at Czech University of Life Sciences, ARCHIP, Faculty of Art and Architecture at Technical University of Liberec, Faculty of Architecture at Czech Technical University in Prague, Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague, re.code.nature, Oximoron, Defio, s.r.o., AZ-TECH, s.r.o., Prague Institute of Planning and Development, Landscape festival Praha 2014, Nákladové nádraží Žižkov, SKANSKA, Stora Enso, Rothoblaas, Eurodach, Natura Dekor, Nářadí Bartoš, Lesy ČR, P-Print, Škuta Design, Empyreum Information Technologies, reSITE, Meloun Production, Easy Moving, Nadace Život umělce, Nadace Proměny, Paperlinx, Vinařství Sonberg, Městská část Praha 3, Nová síť, o. s., Nadace Proměny, Auto*Mat, Lunchmeat, TANEC PRAHA, Uličník, Rekola, I Need Coffee, Architekti ve škole and Matério to whom belongs my great thanks.

    Last, but not least, I would like to thank to all my dear family and friends, for without their support and motivation it would be very hard to have accomplished this project.”

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    Thanks for Thursday Everybody!

     

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    Launch (photo: Tyslová 2016)

    Thanks to all of you coming this Thursday for the launch. Special thanks to Šimon Prokop for the great speech and together with Krištof Hanzlík for baptism. Not forgeting to thank to all involved in the research and publlication!

    The books at AHO and FUA TUL, unless reserved, are gone. You can still get your copy at Coll Coll, Sněmovní 15, Praha 1.

    Hurry up! There is not that many…

    /Díky za párty! Hlavní díky Šimonovi Prokopovi za proslov a Krištofovi Hanzlíkovi za křest. Samozřejmě velké díky všem, kdo se na publikaci a výzkumu podíleli!

    Knihy na AHO a FUA TUL už jsou krom rezervací rozebrány. Ještě je stále možné vyzvednout kopii v Coll Coll, Sněmovní 15, Praha 1.

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    Books Signings (photo: Mládek 2016)

    & Thanks for a great party!

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    Party Goes On (photo: Tyslová 2016)

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    Wood as a Primary Medium to Architectural Performance Book Launch

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    We are proud to invite you to Marie Davidova‘s PhD thesis: Wood as a Primary Medium to Architectural Performance: A Case Study in Performance Orientad Architecture Approached through Systems Oriented Design launch!
    The launch will take place in Coll Coll’s courtyard: Snemovni 15, Prague 1, 1st September 6:30 pm
    /S radostí vás zveme na křest publikace dizertace Marie Davidové: Wood as a Primary Medium to Architectural Performance: A Case Study in Performance Orientad Architecture Approached through Systems Oriented Design!
    Uvidíme se na dvoře Coll Coll: Sněmovní 15, Praha 1, 1. září v 6:30. Kniha zde bude k mání zdarma. Dále ji můžete vyzvednout kdykoli v denní dobu v COLL COLL, FUA TUL -u Marty Petrové, na Oslo School of Architecture and Design recepci, Fakultě lesnické a dřevařské – ČZU v Praze – u Martina Böhma a na ARCHIPu.
    The present research considers wood as a study material for a wider question on architecture’s environmental interaction. It aims to explore its potential for architectural performance and atmospheres as well as to broaden the discussion on this problem area by accessing the public space. My project researches such interactions through practical experiments as well as theoretical reflections, including examinations of other scientific, artistic and crafts disciplines and honestly discusses both the successes as well as the failures and weak points to develop a strong background for architectural and urban design practice.
    The methodology Research by Design while full scale prototyping is covered by the Systems Oriented Design to interpret and develop complex environmental relations.
    This is an article based thesis, where the texts of the articles have not been changed and serve as an addendum covered with an exegesis. Most of the repeating images were removed from the articles. If there is an exception this is reasoned through its important relation to the present text.
    All the substantial contributions are mentioned within the text and/or summarized in the Thanks section. To mention the main institutions and practice/NGO’s respectively, this research has been developed at the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University of Liberec, the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague, the Architectural Institute Prague, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, Collaborative Collective, Defio, Oximoron, re.code.nature and reSITE.
    The publication of the thesis was kindly supported by EEA and Norway Grants through the project Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance, is printed on paper with 100% of recycled fibre and is dedicated to my family, friends, colleagues, students and everyone interested in the field.
    The book will be available for free at the party – please, welcome!
    In case you don’t make it, you can also pick up your copy at COLL COLL, FUA TUL – in Marta Petrova’s office, Oslo School of Architecture and Design reception, Fakulta lesnická a dřevařská – ČZU v Praze – in Martin Bohm’s office and in ARCHIP‘s office.
    The publication was kindly supported by EEA and Norway Grants within the project Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance.
    Read the introduction as a teaser:

    The research is seeking answers to the question of what is a solid pine wood’s environmental interaction and how it can be used in Performance Oriented Design (Michael U. Hensel, 2015a) applied in Czech locations. Inspired by the performance of traditional architecture from locations with more extreme climate histories, this case study mainly focuses on performative potentials of solid pine wood cut in tangential section; to be precise – its warping – and particularly how this might be applicable in the specific climatic conditions of Czechia. With today’s climatic change in our region, there is a necessity to search for the adaptation of our local architecture in different places where such conditions have been present.

    The Czech National Strategy for Climate Change Adaptation document clearly states that it is necessary to promote research and development of new materials and technology in reference to anticipated effects of climate change, such as strong gusty winds, extreme rainfall or snow totals or temperature extremes. The main issue in the urban environment mentioned is humidity extremes – long periods of very dry weather or extreme rains (Czech Republic Ministry of the Environment & Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, 2015). In this issue, the architecture is not considered. It is important to note that architects and urbanists were excluded from the document preparation. This research claims that architecture, especially its experimental field, may bring new perspectives to the discussion, joining climatic, material and biotic (including social), sciences.

    The work covers two sub-projects resulting in four built prototypes: Performative Screens Ray and Environmental Summer Pavilions, where prototypes Ray 2, Ray 3, pareSITE and LOOP pavilions benefit from each other’s ideas, observations and results. The Ray project that was inspired by Norwegian traditional panelling and oriental screens called ‘mashrabīyas’ is proposing a screen that is airing and improving the environment by evaporating humidity in warm, dry weather while being resistant and sorping moisture in high relative humidity. The pavilions were mainly focused on evaporation such as in ‘mashrabīyas’, while using the idea from Norwegian traditional panelling of warping for humid air movement. These architectures were improving/may improve outdoor-indoor climatic comfort by providing shading and wind sheltering but also sorping moisture in high relative humidity level that is mainly at nights, while evaporating it on hot summer afternoons, when the relative humidity is on average the lowest. According to Banham, humidity has been the most pestiferous, subtle and elusive of control for most of architectural history, either too much or too little of it in certain climatic conditions (Banham, 2009). These prototypes wish to take this discussion further, applied for the location with both extremes and their increased expectations.

    This research on solid wood cut in tangential section was greatly inspired by contemporary research on ply-wood and laminates, conducted by Michael Hensel, Achim Menges and others and research of Sustainable Environment Association (Michael U. Hensel, 2011b) co-founded by Michael U. Hensel, Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel and Birger Sevaldson that recently joined the Ocean Design Research Association (Michael Hensel, 2015). In the September/October 2015 issue of Architectural Design it was revealed that the research at the Institute of Computational Design at the University of Stuttgart led by Achim Menges is also planning to take the direction of research on solid wood cut in tangential section. (Menges & Reichert, 2015). This work has not yet been published.

    Implementing ‘Bottom-Up’ approach starting with the material research, the ‘Top-Down’ method was slightly combined with ongoing speculations about possible applications as well as the pavilions were having their separate mission of being public architectural objects through which other observations started. At the same time, the need for such performative capacities was discussed several times through many projects in my practice, Collaborative Collective (Collaborative Collective, 2012), the most striking example of which is shown in the DCA2016 paper, Ray 3: The Performative Envelope (Davidová, 2016c). Though the project På Vei (Collaborative Collective, 2011) is not situated in the Czech Republic but Norway, the relevance of this possible application was so important that it was included into this otherwise very site-specific, thesis. For the project’s purposes, a sister NGO of the same name was established in conjunction with my colleagues from the practice. The ‘Research by Design’ thus joins not only academy with practice, but also an investigation on how radical architectural research by design can be organized in the format of the NGOs.

    Besides literature studies on different topics like forestry, dendrology, wood material science and technology, climatology, algology, mycology, architectural history and conservation, today’s research in the field of responsive wood, environmental art, urban design and landscape architecture, etc. the project’s main research approach is based on Research by Design with 1:1 Scale prototyping and practical experiments directing towards sustainable applications in architecture and urban design. This main research mode has been supported by the methodology Systems Oriented Design (Sevaldson, 2013b). The approach helped to keep an overall view of the project and to address the systemic implications and connections. This also implied development of the methodology through its application into the specific design needs. Throughout the process, the GIGA-maps (Sevaldson, 2016a) were tools for this transdisciplinary project that was mapping hard data together with tacit and subliminal knowledge and experiences, targeting the architectural and urban design practice.

    The thesis first chronologically positions my prototypes into the perspective of other research that has been done in the field and reasons why the root of solid wood has been taken through LCA comparison, modelled for the Czech Republic’s environment on the example of one of the prototypes.

    The methodology chapter introduces approaches and/or development in all the methodologies involved. This covers Systems Oriented Design, Research by Design through full scale prototyping and the relations of Academy, Practice and NGO as well as transdisciplinary cooperation in the project. The last subchapter called Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance is discussing and introduces visions for merging digital design tools with prototyping, while handling different interrelated large amount of data as a designer in relation to GIGA-mapping. The research also covers the full scale prototypes observations that are also discussed in this chapter.

    The chapter on material covers the study of forests of the placement of the research for selecting species related to closer observation of the material and its environmental interactions.

    The projects section, after first speculations discussion and introduction, explains each prototype subproject in detail. This is divided not chronologically but by the two main projects sections Ray and Environmental Summer Pavilions.

    The thesis is concluded in reference to the projects’ application, taking its role in social, or generally biotic, physical environmental perspective in reference to climatic change in the targeted location. It places the research case study into the context of larger range of different options of exterior-interior boundary conditions that I experienced in my practice or earlier in my studies, arguing for relevance of this application in practice. Some of the elaborated topics here are already proposing new explorations rather than fully closing the discussion.

    This is an article-based thesis that covers entire articles published in press or submitted in a role of addendum glued together with exegesis that is richly referenced in my other articles that were not selected for full text. The selection of full articles was adapted to the suitability to different chapters of the thesis, such as methodology and specific projects’ developments and explanations.
    The full articles cover:

    1. a) Full articles on method of selection of the used material and methodology:

    Davidová, M., & Kočí, V. (2016). Choosing the Material for Environment Responsive Screen Ray: The LCA Comparison. In I. Press (Ed.), Architecture In-Play 2016. Lisbon: ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon.

    Davidová, M. (2014b). Generating the Design Process with GIGA-map: The Development of the Loop Pavilion. In B. Sevaldson & P. Jones (Eds.), Relating Systems Thinking and Design 2014 Symposium Proceedings (pp. 1–11). Oslo: AHO.

    Davidová, M., & Sevaldson, B. (2016a). 1:1, A Transdisciplinary Prototyping Studio. In ASK.the.Conference 2016. Warszaw: Warszaw University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture.

    Davidová, M., & Sevaldson, B. (2016b). NGO, Practice and University Driven Research By Design on Performative Wood. In M. S. Uddin & M. Sahin (Eds.), 2016 DCA European Conference (p. N/A). Istanbul: Özyeğin University.

    And recently submitted article to FORMakademisk’s systemic design III special issue: Davidová, M (2016). Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance: Handling Data in Creative Design Process: Mixing Physical with Digital

    1. b) Full papers on separate subprojects’prototypes:

    Davidová, M. (2016b). Ray 3: The Performative Envelope. In M. S. Uddin & M. Sahin (Eds.), 2016 DCA European Conference (p. N/A). Istanbul: Özyeğin University.

    Davidová, M., Šichman, M., & Gsandtner, M. (2013). Material Performance of Solid Wood : Paresite , The Environmental Summer Pavilion. In E. M. Thompson (Ed.), Fusion – Proceedings of the 32nd eCAADe Conference – Volume 2 (Vol. 2, pp. 139–144). Newcastle upon Tyne: Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne.

    Davidová, M., & Prokop, Š. (2016). Advances in Material Performance of Solid Wood: Loop, the Environmental Summer Pavilion II. In M. S. Uddin & M. Sahin (Eds.), 2016 DCA European Conference. Istanbul: Özyeğin University.

    1. c) The thesis is concluded with recent Relating Systems Thinking to Design 5 submission: Davidová, M. (2016). Socio-Environmental Relations of Non-Discrete Spaces and Architectures: Systemic Approach to Performative Wood.

    The referenced articles mainly cover:

    Davidová, M. (2009). Exploring Environmental Dimensions : On Sustainability as an Architectural Problem ; Why It Is Not Enough To Discuss Space and Time Only. In Nordes 2009 – Engaging Artifacts (pp. 1–4). Oslo: Oslo School of Architecture and Design.

    Davidová, M. (2013). Ray 2 The Material Performance of a Solid Wood Based Screen. In E. Thompson (Ed.), Fusion – Proceedings of the 32nd eCAADe Conference – Volume 2 (Vol. 2, pp. 153–158). Newcastle upon Tyne: Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Newcastle upon Tyne.

    Davidová, M. (2014a). Environmental Material Performance of Solid Wood: pareSITE: The Environmental Summer Pavilion. In R. Cielatkowska & D. Jankowska (Eds.), Wooden architecture, tradition, heritage, present, future – Proceedings1 (pp. 87 – 92). Gdansk: Wydział Architektury Politechniki Gdańskiej za zgodą Dziekana.

    Davidová, M. (2014c). Wood’s Material Performance: Ray 2. In Wooden architecture, tradition, heritage, present, future – Proceedings1 (pp. 93–99). Gdansk: Wydział Architektury Politechniki Gdańskiej za zgodą Dziekana.

    These were not included as full papers in the thesis for the reason of not complying with the logic of the structure: a) background and position of the research; b) methodology and its development; c) material in relation to environment; d) prototypes; e) discussion and conclusions.

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    ASK.the.Conference Proceedings are ON!

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    Download proceedings with Marie Davidová’s and Birger Sevaldson’s paper on transdisciplinary full scale prototyping studio: 1:1, A Transdisciplinary Prototyping Studio.

    Stáhněte si náš článek ve sborníku ASK.the.Conference o transdisciplinaritě a prototypování v plném měřítku: 1:1, A Transdisciplinary Prototyping Studio:

    http://phd.asknow.eu/education-for-research-research-for-creativity/

    See the abstract here/ Abstrakt v angličtině zde:

    ‘The main author is using transdisciplinary studio courses as a research tool in the field of performative wood. Through sharing the knowledge between architectural, environmental design, and wood science researchers and students, we managed to develop complex 1:1 scale prototypes. The course process is a learning arena for students, teachers and researchers and the skills, competences and insights are being developed through experimental practice. The second prototype of the Environmental Summer Pavilion II course was created from reflection upon the first one while both serve as complex material-environment interaction studies for the development of responsive envelopes.’

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    Discussing the Current State and New Potentials

    The project had a crucial meeting before finishing one particular state. This involved Michael Hensel’s public lecture and common discussion on its future and current development joining also Birger Sevaldson, Marie Davidová and interested colleagues.

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    Figure 1: Michael Hensel’s lecture (photo: Šafářová 2016)

    Michael Hensel’s lecture started from the point of architecture that is responsive to its environment and ended by discussion on living architecture that is grown from that on the example of planned project on wine yards in Bordeaux. The moves towards architecture that is fully part of its environment were discussed in the means of non-antropocentric architecture considering both, biotic and abiotic factors. This involves tools and methods that support such designs. Hensel and Sørensen are reading real time local environmental data and implementing VR simulations. This has particular potential for Systems Oriented Design development in the means of so called Rich Design Research Space.

    An article on this in Czech as a reflection on the lecture was published on the most known online architectural media in Czech Republic, ARCHIWEB.

    The common discussions of the project participants were focused on new investigations, this involved differences and potentials in Czech historical or traditional architecture, use of new and recycled materials, political situation within design context and importance of implementing nature into city infrastructure. For this reason we visited today discussed bio-corridor Zvonařka in Prague, where Marie Davidová takes part in initiative for protecting it. Based on the discussion, Marie Davidová got in touch with ecologist Kateřina Zímová from NGO CooLand, who prepared for her prestudy on its environmental importance in the region for her neighbourhood public speech and collaboration on grant application was agreed.

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    Figure 2: Marie Davidová at the Neighborhood Meeting after the Activity (photo: Bláhová)

    In Liberec, we visited Ještěd for getting an overview of the regional natural diversity and regional architectural tradition. The relationship of human mind and the landscape, natural as well as architectural, in reference to homelands was contemplated all the way through the journey.

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    Figure 3: Ještěd visit (photo: Šafářová 2016)

    Visit of Kutná Hora was in particular interest as the architecture and city was modulated by historical and social development and is really local specific. The city was extremely rich due to the silver mining industry while its decrease had strong effect on its development. I.e. St. Barbara’s church was originally planned to be two times longer which caused asymmetry in its architecture. Similar increases and decreases are visible all over the place. The city partly stopped to evolve, so its gothics outfit mostly remained. The local material of sandstone remains sea life with its shell marks, confirming both, biotic and abiotic origin. In the mines, bio-tops with algae developed over times. This could lead to new material development in the future.

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    Figure 4: Visit of Kutná Hora (photo: Davidová 2016)

    Relationship of the politics and design was of particular interest of the discussions. This relates to Marie Davidova’s starting systemic project GIGA‐mapping the Architectural Performance: Appreciation of New Coming Cultures that relates to refugees crisis and Birger Sevaldson’s coming project Design for Democracy.

    Birger Sevaldson as second supervisor, had separate discussions with Marie Davidova about her research in general and the PhD project in particular. The discussion where summing up the project, the method of common cooperation and discussing strength and weaknesses in the thesis.

    Článek z archiwebu zde:

    Architektura a její prostředí: Reflexe nad přednáškou Michaela Hensela

    6. června 2016 proběhla na Technické univerzitě v Liberci přednáška průkopníka Performativní architektury, spoluzakladatele Ocean Design Research Association a profesora na Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Michaela Hensela. Zásadním tématem byl vztah architektury a prostředí. Přednáška začala z pozice architektury, která svým chováním na prostředí reaguje a skončila diskusí nad plánovaným projektem na vinicích v Bordeaux o živé architektuře, která ze svého prostředí roste.
    Michael nastínil posun k architektuře, která je plnohodnotnou součástí svého prostředí z pozice neantropocentrické architektury zahrnující oboje, jeho živé i neživé faktory. Takovýto přístup si žádá nové nástroje a metody. Hensel, spolu se svým kolegou Sørensenem, používají ve svém školním atelieru pro návrhy lokální, real-time data prostřednictvím arduina a senzorů a simulace ve virtuální realitě. Takovýto přístup má podle mě zásadní potenciál pro environmentálně zaměřenou metodologii  Systems Oriented Design diskutovanou jeho kolegou Birgerem Sevaldsonem na TUL letos v březnu. Komplexní navrhování při sledování a simulování biotických a abiotických faktorů při mezioborovém teamu nabízí krok dále v kreativním prostředí, takzvaném Rich Design Research Space.
    Hensel je také průkopníkem metody Research by Design při prototypování v plném měřítku. Tato metoda skýtá nejlepší konfrontaci s vlastním výzkumem prostřednictvím vlastní zkušenosti a sledování interakce prototypu s prostředím. Data tedy nejsou sbírána jen pro návrh, ale i jako zpětná vazba pro další návrhy. Podobný význam má i sledování tradiční architektury, která byla vyvíjena a testována po generace v přímém vztahu k místním environmentálním podmínkám. Taková měření neslouží jen k sledování tvrdých dat, ale i k vyvíjení vžitých, až podvědomých zkušeností a znalostí architektky/a.
    Lidstvo bylo vždy součástí svého živého i neživého prostředí a po většinu své historie měla architektura různé úrovně interakcí, či výměn mezi svými hranicemi, ať už se jedná o dvory, verandy, otevřené či uzavřené pavlače, arkády, balkony, pasáže, neklimatizovaná zádveří či jiné vnitřní prostory. Takovýto cibulový princip architektury umožňuje různé úrovně jejího obývání. Mnoho z těchto znalostí bylo zapomenuto a nahrazeno umělým prostředím energii konzumujících ventilací a izolací. Současné nové technologie nám můžou pomoci v návratu k přirozené rovnováze.Přednáška se uskutečnila v rámci projektu Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance za laskavé podpory EHP a Norských fondů.
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    FUA TUL Visited AHO

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    Oslo School of Architecture and Design (photo: Davidová)

    The group attend the final review of Birger Sevaldson’s department design studio focused on Systems Oriented Design and visited Søren Sørensen’s and Michael Hensel’s studio’s work in progress.

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    Design Department Presentations Focused on Systems Oriented Design (photo: Davidová)

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    Søren Sørensen’s Introduction on his Course (photo: Raková)

    A gathering for discussion to strengthen the ideas and research within the field occurred with Birger first in café Sara the first day and in Internasjonalen the second day. Recent work and ideas for future work were discussed. The group had an opportunity to compare the different approaches and opportunities forming the research settings in Norway and in Czechia. The Czech team was overwhelmed by AHO’s facilities and open structure.

    Systemic approach to refugee crisis through design and design for democracy were discussed with Birger Sevaldson. It was agreed that such projects need to involve direct implementations otherwise they are losing their points. The common paper for DCA in Istanbul generated the discussion on tacit knowledge among PhD students and environment with design perceived by different senses got to great interest of the PhD student Dana Raková, as it relates to her research area.

    Different structural analysis methods were discussed with Søren Sørensen as this has been a weak point in Marie Davidová’s work before. It has been concluded that the direct cooperation with the plug in developer has to be undertaken during the design process. This has been of interest to Miloš Florián, as he is supervising a project on tools for structural analysis.

    See report in Czech on archiweb.cz/Zpráva v češtině je na archiweb.cz: http://www.archiweb.cz/news.php?action=show&type=2&id=20059

    Projekt Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance
    Návštěva Oslo School of Architecture and Design

    V rámci projektu institucionální spolupráce jsme se s FUA TUL (FUA TUL, 2016) vypravili na návštěvu školy architektury a designu v Oslu (Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2016). Po exkurzi po škole, kde jsou nejvíce ohromují dílny na výrobu prototypů v měřítku jedna ku jedné jsme se zúčastnili závěrečných kritik institutu designu. Designeři využívali Systems Oriented Design (Sevaldson, 2013) s GIGA-mapováním (Sevaldson, 2016a, 2016b), konzultovaný Birgerem Sevaldsonem například k urbánním návrhům aplikací pro městskou cyklistiku. Zaujal nás především přesah oboru, který v rámci směru „service design“ řeší projekty od interaction designu po urbanismus. Jedna aplikace například učila začínající cyklisty jak jezdit ve městě, bezpečné cesty a dopravní předpisy. To bylo celé napojené na sociální sítě, kde vám mohou pomoci zkušení cyklisté a je možnost tagovat nebezpečná místa s radami pro řešení.
    Dále jsme navštívili studio Sørena Sørensena a Michaela Hensela. Studio se zaměřuje na takzvanou Performance Oriented Architecture (M. U. Hensel, 2015), tedy architekturu, která reaguje na své prostředí. Studio využívá ke svému navrhování real-time data, naměřená přímo na místě návrhu. Dále využívají Virtuální Realitu pro práci s daty. Většinou pak toto studio vytváří urbánní či krajinné zásahy v plném měřítku (M. Hensel & Sørensen, 2016; M. U. Hensel & Sørensen, 2014).
    S takovýmto systémovým navrhováním máme bohužel u nás malou zkušenost. Většinově se architektonické objekty prezentují jako estetické sochy a tak jsou také vyžadovány. Velkými průkopníky, adresujícími tyto problémy jsou u nás většinou neziskovky, zatímco v Norsku má takový přístup komerční klientelu.

    Tento projekt byl laskavě podpořen EHP a Norskými Fondy (EEA and Norway Grants, 2016).

    Reference:
    EEA and Norway Grants. (2016). EEA and Norway Grants. Retrieved March 29, 2016, from http://eeagrants.org/
    FUA TUL. (2016). Faculty of Art and Architecture, Technical University of Liberec. Retrieved April 2, 2016, from http://www.fua.tul.cz/
    Hensel, M., & Sørensen, S. S. (2016). Research Centre for Architecture and Tectonics. Retrieved April 3, 2016, from http://www.rcat.no/
    Hensel, M. U. (2015). Performance-Oriented Design. Retrieved April 3, 2016, from http://www.performanceorienteddesign.net/
    Hensel, M. U., & Sørensen, S. S. (2014). Intersecting Knowledge Fields and Integrating Data-Driven Computational Design en Route to Performance-Oriented and Intensely Local Architectures. FOOTPRINT, 8(2), 59–74. Retrieved from http://footprint.tudelft.nl/index.php/footprint/article/view/812
    Oslo School of Architecture and Design. (2016). Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Retrieved April 3, 2016, from https://aho.no/
    Sevaldson, B. (2013). Systems Oriented Design. Retrieved October 1, 2013, from http://www.systemsorienteddesign.net/
    Sevaldson, B. (2016a). GIGA-mapping Information. Retrieved March 29, 2016, from http://www.systemsorienteddesign.net/index.php/giga-mapping/giga-mapping-information
    Sevaldson, B. (2016b). GIGA-maps Samples. Retrieved April 15, 2016, from http://systemsorienteddesign.net/index.php/giga-mapping/giga-mapping-samples

     

     

     

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    Michael Hensel: Performance Oriented Architecture: Key Traits, Concepts and Methods

     

    DesignInnovation_Cover_Illustration_03We are very pleased to invite you for a lecture of key person in performance and founder of Ocean Design Research Association: Michael Ulrich Hensel from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design! The lecture will introduce a specific take on performative architecture in which architectures are considered as agents in interaction with the specific setting and as critical mediators between the human influenced and natural environment. Key traits, concepts and methods are introduced and discussed.
    Please, see: http://www.performanceorienteddesign.net/

    The lecture will take place at the Technical University of Liberec, Aula of Building G, 6th June, 6pm. Please welcome!

    /Máme velkou radost, že vás můžeme pozvat na přednášku zásadní osoby performance a jednoho ze zakladatelů Ocean Design Research Association: Michaela Ulricha Hensela z Oslo School of Architecture and Design! Přednáška představí specifický přístup k performativní architektuře, kde architektury jso považovány za agenty v interakci s různými specifiky a jako zásadní mediátoři mezi člověkem ovlivněným a přírodním prostředím. Budou představeny a diskutovány zásadní vlastnosti, concepty a metody. Více na: http://www.performanceorienteddesign.net/

    Prof. Michael U. Hensel [Dipl. Ing. Grad Dipl Des AA PhD Reading] is an architect, researcher, educator and writer. Currently he is tenured professor for architecture at AHO the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (https://aho.no/en) where he directs the Research Center for Architecture and Tectonics [RCAT] (http://www.rcat.no/). He is a founding member of OCEAN (1994), and founding and current chairman of the OCEAN Design Research Association (http://www.ocean-designresearch.net/) and the Sustainable Environment Association [SEA] (http://www.sustainableenvironmentassociation.net/). The OCEAN Design Research Association is an international and independent not-for-profit organization with the mission to conduct inter- and transdisciplinary research by design, and to develop overarching theoretical frameworks and related design methods in its specific areas of inquiry. SEA is an international and interdisciplinary not-for-profit expertise network that pursues systematic, integrative and interdisciplinary inquiry into the human-influenced and built environment and its interaction with the natural environment and local ecosystems with the aim to develop alternative approaches to architectural design and sustainability. From 2007 to 2012 he was board member of BIONIS – The Biomimetics Network for Industrial Sustainability.

    From 1993 to 2009 he taught at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where he co-initiated and co-directed the Emergent Technologies and Design Program from 2001 to 2009. He held numerous visiting professorships and innovation fellowships and taught and lectured in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia. In his academic work he integrates research and education with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinarity, critical ability and projective capacity.

    His writings have been published in Chinese, Czech, English, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Spanish, and Turkish. He has authored, co-authored and edited numerous books and journals.

    The event is free of charge, is happening under Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance through institutional cooperation of FUA TUL and Oslo School of Architecture and Design and is kindly supported by EEA and Norway Grants.

    See the FB event here/FB událost zde: https://www.facebook.com/events/1742733289274484/

     

     

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    GIGA-Mapping Performance

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    A study of non-discrete spaces in Norwegian traditional architecture was performed this February. The collected hard, as well as tacit data were related in GIGA-map. The matrix of different scales is connecting various types, spatial distribution and boundary conditions of so called ‘svalgangs’ with their opportunities and periodicity of use, micro climatic conditions of exchange between exterior, semi-interior and interior and macro climatic data and topology of their original location.

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    The above GIGA-map is exhibiting gradient of different boundary conditions from fully open to enclosures, mapping the designs’ feedback looping performance of biotic, as well as climatic or other physical agents, relating i.e. social to weather performance in one matrix field.

    The detailed study was submitted to Relating Systems Thinking to Design 5 conference. Stay tuned!

    Tyto GIGA-mapy jsou výsledky mapování “non-discrete spaces” v Norsku a na současných projektech Marie Davidové. Hlubší studie bude publikována na konferenci Relating Systems Thinking to Design 5, jejíž sborník bude online na http://systemic-design.net/

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    GIGA-Mapping the Pavilions

    Birger Sevaldson’s workshop, covering five participants: Mirka Baklíková, Lucie Pavlištíková, Martin Málek, Mariia Borisova and Georgia Papasozomenou, introduced Systems Oriented Design (http://www.systemsorienteddesign.net/) methodology on mapping Marie Davidová’s research, Wood as a Primary Medium to Architectural Performance. Lectures and hands on work were in play. The final GIGA-map was exhibited in the main studio of FUA TUL (http://www.fua.tul.cz/) with an informal opening.

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    Final GIGA-map (photo: Málek 2016)

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    Birger’s Speech at the Opening (photo: Davidová 2016)

    The complex potentials of Davidová’s and her colleagues’ Evironmental Summer Pavilions, pareSITE (http://archinect.com/mobius) and LOOP (http://environmentalpavilion.tumblr.com/), were GIGA-mapped (http://systemsorienteddesign.net/index.php/giga-mapping/giga-mapping-information) among others from socio-ecologico-economic aspects. GIGA-maps serve for diagramming intricate transdisciplinary relations and, as Birger has shown, can be deepened by color-coding of connections and by ZIP-analysis.

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    Colorcoding by Different Wires (photo: Davidová 2016)

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    Birger Introducing ZIP-Analysis (photo: Davidová 2016)

    ZIP-Analysis was explained by Sevaldson as follows:

    “ZIP-Analysis is a simple method for developing GIGA-maps and to find potential areas for interventions and innovations…

    Z :  Zoom is used to mark areas or points in your map that need more research. It is a reminder for you that you lack information and a initiater to make additional maps zooming into this area.

    P :  P stands for potential, problem, problematique, pain point. If there is an obvious problem this is a potential for improvement. The Pain Points used by some are obviously P points but using the term potential is more neutral. There could be big potentials in things that work very fine. One could use this as a inspiration to improve things that work not so fine or one could improve them or link them in new ways. P stands for potential pain points problems etc. Typically if you spot a potential or problem but you don’t know what to do with it its a P point. Also think of the P points as potential actors e.g. in the sense of “Enablers” and “Blockers”. Also think of them as leverage points. (Meadows)

    I : I stands for innovation and / or intervention. If you find something new you can do or you find a solution to a problem or you can link things in a new way by creating new relations these are I-points. Innovations are obviously new inventions. interventions are not necessarily new and innovative but they are actions that change the system. They are systems interventions. The ZIP-Analysis works nicely with GIGA maps to move from description to design.

    When GIGA-mapping you perform the ZIP-Analysis by consiously searching for ZIP points. Mark with Z, P or I on the map.” (Sevaldson 2016 http://systemsorienteddesign.net/index.php/giga-mapping/zip-analysis)

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    ZIP-analysis in Progress (photo: Davidová 2016)

    Davidová discussed the opportunities in zooming the problems and thus opened new questions in methodology. The most interesting discussion was on the pavilions’ program. The pavilions were often criticized for not having such. Birger opened the question of opportunistic use by its visitors/performers. Not being directly said, here you should sit, here play, here meet, here dance, sing or give a speech, all the users found the comfortable settings the pavilions offered. Birger has long lasting experience with such designs since 90-ties, when he founded Ocean (http://www.ocean-designresearch.net/) and gave us a lot of insides. In Prague Marie Davidová, Krištof Hanzlík, Martin Šichman and Boris Meluš opened this question after 60-ties when lectoring the workshop instantPARK for urbanACT in 2012. (http://urbanact.cz/post/24221217279/v-r%C3%A1mci-z%C3%A1v%C4%9Bre%C4%8Dn%C3%A9ho-happeningu-prob%C3%ADhal-v)

    The mapping of opportunistic social interaction with architectonic object answered and opened a lot of questions. Students adopted basic principles of the methodology and broaden their horizons in complex thinking. They are planning to continue with this approach in their next projects. The results of this should be exhibited in Liberec from the 6th June. The exhibition will be opened by Birger Sevaldson around 3pm, followed by the public lecture of his colleague from Ocean and AHO, Michael Hensel, on Performance Oriented Architecture (http://www.performanceorienteddesign.net/) at 6pm.

    You can find the report in Czech language published on archiweb.cz here/článek v češtině zde: http://www.archiweb.cz/news.php?type=&action=show&id=19085

    Zpráva z worskopu s Birgerem Sevaldsonem na FUA TUL
    GIGA-mapování potenciálů Environmentálních letních pavilonů

    Birger Sevaldson vysvětlující ZIP-analýzy (foto: M.Davidová, 2016)

    V rámci projektu institucionální spolupráce mezi Fakultou umění a architektury na Technické univerzitě v Liberci (FUA TUL) a Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance, se uskutečnil na FUA TUL workshop a veřejná přednáška Birgera Sevaldsona za asistence Marie Davidové. Společný projekt obou škol má za cíl propojit metodologii Systems Oriented Design se stále více aktuálním směrem v architektuře, či designu celkově, Performance Oriented Architecture/Design. Tento projekt byl podpořen EHP a Norskými Fondy.
    Birger začal workshop úvodní přednáškou, kde vysvětlil metodologii. Poté Marie Davidová vysvětlila svojí případovou studii v oboru Performance Oriented Architecture, Wood as a Primary Medium to Architectural Performance, týkající se dřeva. Davidová, spolu s kolegy a studenty, postavila již dva letní pavilony z masivního dřeva, které reagují na počasí a staly se platformou pro letní festivaly v Praze. Workshop se mimo jiné zaměřil právě především na komplexní potenciál vztahu pavilonu ke svému okolí z pohledu sociálně-ekologicoko-ekonomických aspektů, prostřednictvím takzvaných GIGA-map.
    GIGA-mapy slouží k diagramování složitých mezioborových vztahů. Právě propojení mezi různými tématy bývá zásadní k porozumění systému.

    Finální výsledek GIGA-mappingu (foto: Martin Málek)

    Birger představil kódování spojnic na základě jejich vlastností, intenzity a repetitivnosti.

    Detail GIGA-mapy ukazující kódování při značení vztahů (foto: Marie Davidová)

    Dále vysvětlil techniku takzvaných ZIP-analýz, které vyhledávají určité aspekty projektu vhodné pro intervenci, či inovaci:
    „Z :  Zoom se používá k označení oblastí nebo míst ve vaší mapě, které potřebují další výzkum. Je to vaše upozornění pro vás, že vám chybí informace a iniciátor dalších map zoomujících do této oblasti.
    P : P představuje potenciál, problém, problematiku, bod bolesti. Jestliže tu je zřejmý problém, je to potenciál pro zlepšení. Některými používané označení body bolesti jsou zjevně P body, ale s použití termínu potenciál je více neutrální. Velké potenciály můžou být i u věcí do věcí, které fungují velmi dobře. Je možné je použít jako inspirace pro zlepšení věcí, které tak dobře nefungují, nebo můžou být dány do spojitostí novými způsoby. P představuje potenciální body bolesti, problémy atd. Obvykle Odhalíte-li nějaký potenciál, nebo problém, ale nevíte, co dělat s tím, že je to P bod. Myslete také na P body jako potenciální aktéry např. ve smyslu “umožňující” a “blokující”. Také je možné o nich uvažovat jako bodech vlivu. (Meadows)
    I : I je zkratka pro inovace a / nebo intervence. Pokud zjistíte něco nového, co můžete udělat, nebo najdete řešení problému nebo můžete propojit věci novým způsobem vytvořením nových vztahů, jedná se I-body. Inovace jsou samozřejmě nové invence. Intervence nejsou nutně nové nebo inovativní, ale jsou to akce, které mění systém. Jsou to intervence systémů. ZIP-analýza pracuje dobře s GIGA-mapami přechodu od popisu k designu.“ (Sevaldson 2016, z anglického originálu SOD přeložila Marie Davidová)

    Davidová navrhla právě zoomování problémů, a tak se pohled na stávající metodologii rozšířil. Diskutovány byly body jak sociální, tak procesu výroby i výzkumu.

    Vytáření ZIP-analýz (foto: Marie Davidová)
    foto: Marie Davidová, 2016

    Nejzajímavější byla diskuse o programu pavilonů. Oba pavilony, pareSITE i LOOP, neměly pouze funkci klimatického zpříjemnění svého okolí, ale zároveň sloužily i jako místo k setkávání, posezení, ke hře i k tanci či jako stage festivalů. Pavilonům byla dříve vyčítána právě absence programu. Uživatelům nebylo jasně řečeno, tady máte stát, tady sedět či tady si hrát. Objekty umožňovaly oportunistické funkce podle dané potřeby či nálady. Birger Sevaldson má s tímto přístupem k designu velké zkušenosti již z devadesátých let, kdy začal působit v Ocean. Tato diskuse u nás ještě stále není běžná, i když jsme téma už nakousli s Krištofem Hanzlíkem, Martinem Šichmanem a Borisem Melušem při lektorování workshopu instantPARK pro urbanACT v roce 2012.
    Mapování oportunistické sociální interakce s architektonickým objektem zodpověděla i otevřela spoustu otázek. Studenti si osvojili zásadní principy metodologie a rozšířili obzory v komplexním myšlení. Tento přístup plánují využít i ve svých nadcházejících projektech.

    6. června 2016 by se v 15:00 hodin v Liberci měla konat vernisáž těchto výsledků za účasti Birgera Sevaldsona. V 18:00 hodin bude následovat veřejná přednáška Birgerova kolegy z Ocean a AHO, pionýra směru Performance Oriented Architecture, Michaela Hensela.

    Studenti: Mirka Baklíková, Lucie Pavlištíková, Martin Málek, Mariia Borisova, Georgia Papasozomenou

     

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    ASK The Conference

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    Marie Davidova is on the way to Warszaw to present her paper coauthored with Birger Sevaldson on 1:1 scale prototyping in Research by Design at ASK.The.Conference. Read the the abstract bellow:

    / Marie Davidová je na cestě do Varšavy, kde bude prezentovat společný článek s Birgerem Sevaldsonem o prototypování v plném měřítku a “Research by Design” na ASK.the.Conference. Přečtěte si abstrakt v angličtině níže:

    1:1, A Transdisciplinary Prototyping Studio:

    The author is using transdisciplinary studio courses as a research tool in the field of performative wood. Through sharing the knowledge between architectural, environmental design, and wood science researchers and students, we managed to develop complex 1:1 scale prototypes. The course process is a learning arena for students, teachers and researchers and the skills, competences and insights are being developed through experimental practice. The second prototype of the Environmental Summer Pavilion II course was created from reflection upon the first one while both serve as complex material-environment interaction studies for the development of responsive envelopes.

    Check the event here: http://conference.asknow.eu/
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    The Origin and Development of Systems Oriented Design

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    We are very proud that Birger Sevaldson from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and the Ocean Design Research Association is coming to FUA TUL this March to hold a lecture and workshop!
    Check the events here:
    https://www.facebook.com/events/807425629361789/
    https://www.facebook.com/events/1508107752829077/

    S velikou radostí vám oznamujeme, že Birger Sevaldson z Oslo School of Architecture and Design a Ocean Design Research Association přijede v březnu na FUA TUL, kde povede veřejnou přednášku a workshop.

    Facebookové události jsou zde:

    https://www.facebook.com/events/807425629361789/
    https://www.facebook.com/events/1508107752829077/

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    Study on Non-Discrete Spaces in Norway

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    Marie Davidova is leaving to Norway this Monday to map in cooperation with Birger Sevaldson non-discrete spaces in Norwegian traditional architecture. The unclimatised spaces between interior and exterior, generating the onion principal of the building, have its place in almost all traditional architectures, functioning as its energy exchange.

    Marie Davidová vyjíždí do Norska studovat a mapovat ve spolupráci s Birgerem Sevaldsonem “non-discrete spaces” v tradiční norské architektuře. Tyto neklimatizované prostory mezi interiérem a exteriérem, které generují takzvaný cibulový princip budovy, mají své místo skoro v každé tradiční architektuře, kde fungují jako výměna energie.

     

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