Dynamic balance

Actar, Energy and sustainability, Mike Silver, Mitchell Joachim, No Density, Senseable Technologies, Statement, Technology and fabrication, Terreform ONE, Urban Paradigms, XXL-XS

Architecture&climate, Architecture&environment, Architecture&nature, Art&technology, Balanced consumption rates, Biomimetic architecture, Biotech, Ecological footprint, Ecology, Emerging ecology, Energy consumption, Environmental imbalances, Environmental technologies, Functional ecology, Global Awareness, Reconstructing nature, Second nature, Statement, Technology

Published in XXL-XS. New Directions in Ecological Design, 2017.

XXL-XS represents the emerging discipline of ecological design by assembling a wide range of innovators with diverse interests. Geo-engineering, synthetic biology, construction site co-robotics, low-energy fabrication, up-cycling waste, minimally invasive design, living materials, and molecular self-assembly are just a few of the important advances explored in the book.
At one extreme are massive public works, at the other, micro to nano-sized interventions that can have equally profound impacts on our world. From terraforming to bio-manufacturing, a whole new generation of designers is proposing unique ways of confronting the difficult challenges ahead. In this way design becomes a totality of relationships that affects all disciplines, which can no-longer be thought of as self-contained fields, each handled separately by narrowly focused specialists. Globalization demands a restructuring of the profession, as we know it. This requires a new breed of generalists who can work across fields and engage research on multiple sites around the globe. Today we need planetary designers versed in the craft of integral design.