ABSTRACT

This chapter argues that it is necessary to consider both the logic and the processes of operations, the mind, and the methods of physically interacting with the environment, the many bodies and focuses on the cybernetic logic designed to self-regulate and adapt. Historically, designs that function within the realm of ecological interventions have heavily gravitated toward attempting to gain full authority and control over the particular ecosystem in order to reform it. Series of design studies suggest utilizing tessellated folding surfaces as a potential method of pneumatically activating the agents. Through analyzing a series of structural glaciology principles, as well as different cycles in the dynamics of the cryosphere, a pattern of self-regulation among the ice masses emerges. This theme of self-regulation can be observed both at the minute scale of snow crystal composition, and the global scale of the overall glacier.