Ecologies of Inception - Design Potentials on a Warming Planet

Ecologies of Inception will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, educators, and professional architects and designers interested in sustainable design and seeking to develop conceptual and design tools commensurate with the magnitude and urgency of the climate emergency.

List of contents

I. Introduction: Tampering with Design Potentials on a Warming Planet PART I: TABULA RASA 1. Ecologies of Inception: Orientation of Designed Objects 2. Hylomorphism Reconsidered: Matter, Form, and the Ability to Change PART II: HYPERMATERIALS 3. Purity beyond Nature and Culture: Wildfires, Hypermaterials, and Co-option 4. Circularities: Technical Nutrients, Hyperobjects, and Rooms PART III: AUTHORSHIP 5. Rasura Tabulae: From Formats to Media 6. Ecologies of Suspension: Potentiality without Intentions/Relations 7. Exaptive Design: Radical Coauthorship as Method 8. Authorship vs. Withdrawal: OOO and Architecture 9. Conclusion Bibliography Index

About the author

Simone Ferracina is the founding director of Exaptive Design Office (EDO) and a Lecturer in Architectural Design/Detail at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), The University of Edinburgh.

Summary

Ecologies of Inception will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, educators, and professional architects and designers interested in sustainable design and seeking to develop conceptual and design tools commensurate with the magnitude and urgency of the climate emergency.

Product details

• Authors: Simone Ferracina, Simone (University of Edinburgh Ferracina, Ferracina Simone
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780367858766
• ISBN: 978-0-367-85876-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Theory of architecture, Architecture: professional practice, Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design