ABSTRACT
Chapter 4, The entanglement, explores the role of technology and how processes of remediation, bioengineering, and fabricated ecology have altered sensibilities about natural systems, which are increasingly evaluated in terms of performance and seen as “technological layers.” This chapter uses the precedent of Gas Works Park in Seattle to illustrate how remediation processes can be creatively integrated with site design, leading into the example of the New York High Line to explore the idea of “hypernature” as an intensified form of ecological performance. The exploration uses Gardens on the Bay in Singapore as an example of “techno-nature,” which is embedded, optimised, responsive, and performative, while demonstrating the potential for the hybridisation of technological and ecological systems and the future prospect of a fully synthetic “living technology.”
