ABSTRACT
This companion investigates the ways in which designers, architects, and planners address ecology through the built environment by integrating ecological ideas and ecological thinking into discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design.
Exploring the innovation of materials, habitats, landscapes, and infrastructures, it furthers novel ecotopian ideas and ways of living, including human-made settings on water, in outer space, and in extreme environments and climatic conditions. Chapters of this extensive collection on ecotopian design are grouped under five different ecological perspectives: design manifestos and ecological theories, anthropocentric transformative design concepts, design connectivity, climatic design, and social design. Contributors provide plausible, sustainable design ideas that promote resiliency, health, and well-being for all living things, while taking our changing lifestyles into consideration. This volume encourages creative thinking in the face of ongoing environmental damage, with a view to making design decisions in the interest of the planet and its inhabitants.
With contributions from over 79 expert practitioners, educators, scientists, researchers, and theoreticians, as well as planners, architects, and engineers from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, this book engages theory, history, technology, engineering, and science, as well as the human aspects of ecotopian design thinking and its implications for the outlook of the planet.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Ecological Perspective Domain One|103 pages
Design Manifestos and Theories in Ecological Domains
chapter 1.3|12 pages
Ecological Prototypes for Green Construction
chapter 1.4|13 pages
From Evo-Devo Strategies to a Way Forward With Eco-social Evo-Devo for Generative Design Processes 1
chapter 1.5|13 pages
Digitalism in Morphogenetic Practices for Human Centric Design Thinking
chapter 1.6|11 pages
Systems of Systems
chapter 1.7|17 pages
Architecture Design in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
part Ecological Perspective Domain OneEcological Perspective Domain Two|105 pages
Anthropocentric Transformative Design Concepts
chapter 2.1|13 pages
Ecological Urbanism for Health, Well-Being, and Inclusivity
chapter 2.6|13 pages
Future of Urban Design Through Generative Design Tools
chapter 2.7|14 pages
Green Urban Futures
chapter 2.8|12 pages
Urban Design in Search for Equilibrium
part Ecological Perspective Domain Three|186 pages
The Design Connectivity Domain
chapter 3.2|15 pages
Biomorphic Intelligence
chapter 3.4|12 pages
Materials Ecology 2— Optimization of Daylighting Performance and Solar Heat Gain
chapter 3.5|13 pages
Environment-Aware Behavioral Envelopes
chapter 3.6|9 pages
Material Ecology 3—Smart Materials
chapter 3.6|8 pages
Material Ecology 3—Smart Materials
chapter 3.6|6 pages
Material Ecology 3—Smart Materials
chapter 3.7|17 pages
Visionary Engineered Biotopes in Bringing Nature to High Levels
chapter 3.8|12 pages
Robots in the Room, Robots Are the Room
chapter 3.9|11 pages
Sublimating Tectonics of Architecture
part Ecological Perspective Domain Four|118 pages
The Climatic Design Domain
chapter 4.1|14 pages
Innovative Design Solutions for Climatic Challenges of Sea Level Rise—Flooding and Ocean City Designs
chapter 4.3|13 pages
Design for Wildfire
chapter 4.4|11 pages
Architecture That Bridges and Merges the Human-Made With Nature
chapter 4.4|12 pages
Architecture That Bridges and Merges the Human-Made With Nature
chapter 4.5|11 pages
Embedded Architectures
chapter 4.6|10 pages
Climate-Friendly Green Infrastructure Planning and Design
chapter 4.7|10 pages
Design for Air in the Urban Micro-Environments—How's the Air on Your Block?
chapter 4.8|10 pages
The Future of Architecture on Earth and in Space: Lessons and Synergies:
chapter 4.8|13 pages
Futures of Architecture on Earth and in Space: Lessons and Synergies:
part Ecological Perspective Domain Five|111 pages
The Social Design Domain