ABSTRACT
This book explores ecologies design, from holistic, multiple perspective notion of how Life works. To embrace the threshold, the shifting, the ecotone, permeability, and other aspects of how ecosystems work and function were all thought to be key in engaging with ecologies design. The need for interdisciplinarity and genuine exploration of multiple perspectives, needs, and drivers for design has been highlighted by Graves, and Reed and Haggard. The difference of time spent in field by designers, even more immersive ones, and ethnographers is significant. The advocacy for place based ecological communities of elements within design, and openness to accommodating connections and living fluctuations are key design tactics, with the designers acting as ‘aligned others’, and giving voice to ecological contexts. Design projects need to have a wider contextual responsibility than an immediate site, extending to a project’s material, energy, and water origins and uses, both as part of built environment assemblage, and over time as wider environment changes.
