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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.
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).
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
Hall, W. P., Nousala, S., Best, R., & Nair, S. (2012). Social networking tools for knowledge-based action groups. In Computational Social Networks: Tools, Perspectives and Applications (Vol. 9781447140, pp. 227–255). Springer-Verlag London Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4048-1_9
Mead, M. (Ed.). (1954). Cultural patterns and technical change (from the “Tensions and technology series”) : a manual. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Paris: New American Library; Muller.
Nousala, S. (2009). The Sustainable Development of Industry Clusters: Emergent Knowledge Networks and Socio Complex Adaptive Systems. Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 7(5), 55–60. Retrieved from http://www.iiisci.org/journal/sci/FullText.asp?var=&id=XG405GZ
Nousala, S., & Hall, W. P. (2008). Emerging autopoietic communities – Scalability of knowledge transfer in complex systems. In Proceedings – 2008 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, NPC 2008 (pp. 418–425). Shanghai. https://doi.org/10.1109/NPC.2008.69
Nousala, S., Ing, D., & Jones, P. (2018). Systemic design agendas in education and design research: A report and reflections on the RSD5 Symposium workshop. FormAkademisk, 11(4), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.2608
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.
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.
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!
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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