Bio-integrated Design

Energy and sustainability, Essay, expanding design practices, IAAC Bits 9, Jordi Vivaldi, Marcos Cruz, No Density, Technology and fabrication

Aesthetic, Architecture, Architecture&nature, Bio-engineering, Biological structures, Biological technologies, Biotech, Challenge, Climate change, Culture, Design strategies, Ecological researches, Ecosystem ecology, Environment, Essay, Experimental, Extreme conditions, Global Awareness, Hybrid technique, Interdisciplinarity, Materials, Natural dialogue, Natural phenomena, Nature vs. Artificial, Performance, Plant growth, Production, Research, Scale, Technology, Urban growth

This interview is an excerpt of "IAAC Bits 9 - Black Ecologies" edited by Manuel Gausa, Areti Markopoulou and Jordi Vivaldi. Published by Actar Publishers -- https://lccn.loc.gov/2021285834

Jordi Vivaldi: Since the end of the 20th century, we have been experiencing a shift in relation to our understanding of the notion of nature: we are moving from a conception of nature understood as Mother Nature (that is to say, a harmonic, perfect and secularized garden of Eden that only humans can disrupt), to another understanding of nature as being highly manipulable through technology (like in the recent cases of artificial DNA or the unfolding of the human genome). How do you think the notion of ecology should be interpreted given this new understanding of nature?