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Ecologies Design: Transforming Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism

Ecologies Design: Transforming Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism

Connolly, Peter
Southcombe, Mark
Pedersen Zari, Maibritt

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Sustainable Urbanism

Environmental StudiesGeneral Design

ISBN10: 0367234475
ISBN13: 9780367234478
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 8 2020
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The notion of ecology has become central to contemporary design discourse. This reflects contemporary concerns for our planet and a new understanding of the primary entanglement of the human species with the rest of the world.

The use of the term 'ecology' with design tends to refer to how to integrate ecologies into design and cities and be understood in a biologically-scientific and technical sense. In practice, this scientific-technical knowledge tends to be only loosely employed. The notion of ecology is also often used metaphorically in relation to the social use of space and cities. This book argues that what it calls the 'biological' and 'social' senses of ecology are both important and require distinctly different types of knowledge and practice. It proposes that science needs to be taken much more seriously in 'biological ecologies', and that 'social ecologies' can now be understood non-metaphorically as assemblages. Furthermore, this book argues that design practice itself can be understood much more rigorously, productively and relevantly if understood ecologically. The plural term 'ecologies design' refers to these three types of ecological design. This book is unique in bringing these three perspectives on ecological design together in one place. It is significant in proposing that a strong sense of ecologies design practice will only follow from the interconnection of these three types of practice.

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