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Ecologies Design challenges professionals and academics to expand the concept of applying and understanding ecologies, both biological and social, in multi-disciplinary spatial design contexts.
This book will be of great interest to academics and professionals within ecology and design.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Towards an ecologies design practice
Section 1: Biological Ecologies Design and Regeneration
2. Introduction: a shifting paradigm in ecologically focused design
3. Engaging with life: the developmental practice of regenerative development and design
4. Designing for living environments using regenerative development: a case study of The Paddock
5. The paradox of metrics: setting goals for regenerative design and development
6. Ecological design as the biointegration of a set of ‘infrastructures’: the ‘quatrobrid’ constructed ecosystem
7. Creating and restoring urban ecologies: case studies in China
8. Towards wildlife-supportive green space design in metropolitan areas: lessons from an experimental study
9. The new design with nature
10. Biomimicry: an opportunity for buildings to relate to place
11. The emergence of biophilic design and planning: re-envisioning cities and city life
Section 2: Documenting Social Ecologies
12. Introduction: How to Document Urban / Landscape Assemblages
13. City boids: diagramming molecular urbanism
14. Why would we spend time drawing people doing their washing in a Chinese village?
15. Object-led interview: documenting geographical ideas
16. Mapping informal settlements: a process for action
17. Ethnographic drawings and the benefits of using a sketchbook for fieldwork
18. A landscape architectural anthropology of green: Bahrain
19. Valparaiso Publico: graphic inventory of urban spaces in a Chilean city
20. Being with Hellersdorf: performative counter-mapping as a reflexive practice between architecture and anthropology
21. The happy city. An actor-network-theory manifesto
22. The aesthetics of documenting urban and landscape assemblages
Section 3: Ecologies Design Practices
23. Introduction: on the need for and potentials of ecological design practice
24. Indigenous ecological design
25. Ngāi Tūhoe’s Te Kura Whare: our living building
26. Design in relationship with an ecological entity: case study design with Te Awa Te Puna
27. On the Rise: case study of a hybrid coastal adaptation strategy
28. There are no sustainable buildings without sustainable people
29. Labour ecology and architecture
30. Integrating design teaching and practices
31. Stranded assets
32. (Hybrid) architecture in and over time
Conclusion
33. A call to ecologies design action
About the author
Maibritt Pedersen Zari is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Architecture and Interior Architecture in the School of Architecture at Victoria University, New Zealand.
Peter Connolly is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture at Victoria University, New Zealand.
Mark Southcombe is the Associate Dean of Postgraduate Research and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture at Victoria University, New Zealand.
Summary
Ecologies Design challenges professionals and academics to expand the concept of applying and understanding ecologies, both biological and social, in multi-disciplinary spatial design contexts. This book will be of great interest to academics and professionals within ecology and design.
