Marie Davidova
Universität Stuttgart, IntCDC, Faculty Member
- systemic approach to architectural performance, Collaborative Design, Eco-Systemic Approach, Responsive Design, Systems Oriented Design, time-based design, and 13 moreDigital Architecture, Performative Design, Parametric Design, performance oriented design, Architecture, Wood Science, Wood Anatomy, Wood science and technology, Forest products, wood science, biocomposite products, Wood Anatomy, Tree-Ring Analysis, Performative Design, Renewable Energy, Agricultural Engineering, Bioenergy Systems, and Wood Technologyedit
- Dr Marie Davidová is a junior research group leader at IntCDC University of Stuttgart. She is a founding member and c... moreDr Marie Davidová is a junior research group leader at IntCDC University of Stuttgart. She is a founding member and chair of Collaborative Collective practice design-research network NGO, a founding, and a board member of Systemic Design Association, and a founding member and auditor of Creative Systemic Research Platform Institute. Marie founded the Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance research by co-design field.edit
By using Systems Oriented Design, designers can learn how to better deal with very complex issues. The approach offers a designerly way of dealing with systems towards social and environmental sustainability. It also addresses ethical... more
By using Systems Oriented Design, designers can learn how to better deal with very complex issues. The approach offers a designerly way of dealing with systems towards social and environmental sustainability. It also addresses ethical concerns in practice by considering multiple perspectives in co-design processes.
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The research's main objective is to explore and encourage modes of architectural practice that can foster multispecies co-living to reduce biodiversity loss and increase the quality of life for both human and nonhuman inhabitants of... more
The research's main objective is to explore and encourage modes of architectural practice that can foster multispecies co-living to reduce biodiversity loss and increase the quality of life for both human and nonhuman inhabitants of architecture. This is achieved through conceptual discussions, comprehensive architectural case studies and work-based design explorations that support cross-species co-living in the context of Eastern Norway (Østlandet)-a geographical region of southeastern Norway consisting of the counties Vestfold, Telemark, Viken, Oslo and Innlandet. A pluralistic method builds on analytical, critical and work-based explorative studies consisting of two parts: (a) historical and contemporary case studies in Norway that support modes of crossspecies co-living and (b) design explorations by the second author investigating the operational potential of kindness in architecture. The notion of kindness in this research is built upon an understanding of the amalgam of concepts: solidarity, kinship and being kind, explained in the article's introduction. The potential for designing with and for nonhumans to reinvigorate modes of co-living and support existing habitats is investigated, focusing on the ways three bird species relate to a specific building in Eastern Norway due to their habitat needs in the region: Cyanistes caeruleus, Eurasian blue tit (blåmeis in Norwegian); Passer montanus, Eurasian tree sparrow (pilfink in Norwegian); and Delichon urbicum, northern or common house martin (taksvale in Norwegian). The research contributes to ongoing discussions within architectural discourse regarding multispecies inhabitation and architecture's role in the current biodiversity crisis and provides insight into both historical and contemporary/ongoing design solutions for multispecies co-living.
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The paper focuses on several systemic research-by-design case studies relating ecological, technological and social systems with a more-than-human perspective. The complexity of the real requires methods that leverage digital tools and... more
The paper focuses on several systemic research-by-design case studies relating ecological, technological and social systems with a more-than-human perspective. The complexity of the real requires methods that leverage digital tools and processes proposed to enable the design of more ecological, dynamic, interrelated posthuman environments. We argue that to achieve social justice, we must also reach environmental justice and become in synergy with the planet, with Gaia. This ethos is presented in multiple case studies demonstrating the relationships between designed and existing socio and environmental systems, evaluating whether our actions on the Earth and use of non-renewable resources are sustainably innovative and what this means for more inclusive practice, the academy and our pedagogical foci and design methods. KEYWORDS post-Antropocene, prospettiva 'non solo umana', architettura non antropocentrica, design sistemico, cibernetica post-Anthropocene, more-than-human, non-anthropocentric architecture, systemic design, cybernetics
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Rapid urbanization has led some Chinese cities to extend to hillside sites with recurrent patterns of flattening sloping terrain to erect high rise buildings. This approach usually results in disturbing local ecosystems which protection... more
Rapid urbanization has led some Chinese cities to extend to hillside sites with recurrent patterns of flattening sloping terrain to erect high rise buildings. This approach usually results in disturbing local ecosystems which protection is an important requirement towards achieving the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Studies examining the special patterns of urban extensions onto hills and the driving forces of behind the deterioration of environmental quality in cities are scarce. This paper aims to answer two questions; “What are the definitions and goals for sustainable landscape design for hillside urban extensions?” and “What are the real causes for the unsustainability of current urban hillside housing developments?” These questions will be approached, first through a literature review, and second through considering the case study of Chongqing Yue Lai eco-city and examining the limitation and remediation through the whole process of the land construction loop within th...
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While many studies were done about green facades’ thermal performance, limited studies were done about green facades for productive farming. Most focused only on one facade or building. According to that, this research questioned what the... more
While many studies were done about green facades’ thermal performance, limited studies were done about green facades for productive farming. Most focused only on one facade or building. According to that, this research questioned what the potentials of farming on facades and roofs in an entire neighbourhood are and what could such a farming system looks like, and what it costs. To address these questions, a literature review about urban farming and possible crops was done. A neighbourhood of 22 multi-floor residential buildings in Nablus\Palestine, was chosen as a case study, and two parametric tools, one for analysis (AGRI|gen\Analysis) and another for design (AGRI|gen\design) were developed and implemented. The study found that in the chosen neighbourhood, existing facades can provide about 28,500 m2 of farming area, but only half of the facades and all of the roofs were suitable for daylight-based farming. Tomatoes and cucumbers can be farmed on 25% and 33% of the facades, respec...
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While many studies were done about green facades’ thermal performance, limited studies were done about green facades for productive farming. Most focused only on one facade or building. According to that, this research questioned what the... more
While many studies were done about green facades’ thermal performance, limited studies were done about green facades for productive farming. Most focused only on one facade or building. According to that, this research questioned what the potentials of farming on facades and roofs in an entire neighbourhood are and what could such a farming system looks like, and what it costs. To address these questions, a literature review about urban farming and possible crops was done. A neighbourhood of 22 multi-floor residential buildings in NablusnPalestine, was chosen as a case study, and two parametric tools, one for analysis (AGRI|gennAnalysis) and another for design (AGRI|genndesign) were developed and implemented. The study found that in the chosen neighbourhood, existing facades can provide about 28,500 m2 of farming area, but only half of the facades and all of the roofs were suitable for daylight-based farming. Tomatoes and cucumbers can be farmed on 25% and 33% of the facades, respectively, to fulfil about 350% and 237% of tomatoes and cucumbers consumption by the same neighbourhood simultaneously. Roofs were found to be more suitable for high DLI-requiring plants like sweet peppers as they can produce more than 315 times the local consumption. In terms of design, a modular adaptive facade system was designed to fit
the neighbourhood to enhance the farming possibilities. The facade system needed about 40,824 modular units of which 73.3%, 10.1%, 8.7%, and 8% of them were LED, PV, Sensor, and fan units respectively, with an average system cost of about $55.2nm2 and a total cost of $1.7M. Finally, a comparison between the system and a proposed vertical farm building in the same region was done, and then related recommendations by the researcher were suggested. This research highlights the potential for productive farming on facades and roofs, which could contribute to sustainable and resilient cities.
the neighbourhood to enhance the farming possibilities. The facade system needed about 40,824 modular units of which 73.3%, 10.1%, 8.7%, and 8% of them were LED, PV, Sensor, and fan units respectively, with an average system cost of about $55.2nm2 and a total cost of $1.7M. Finally, a comparison between the system and a proposed vertical farm building in the same region was done, and then related recommendations by the researcher were suggested. This research highlights the potential for productive farming on facades and roofs, which could contribute to sustainable and resilient cities.
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Rapid urbanization has led some Chinese cities to extend to hillside sites with recurrent patterns of flattening sloping terrain to erect high rise buildings. This approach usually results in disturbing local ecosystems which protection... more
Rapid urbanization has led some Chinese cities to extend to hillside sites with recurrent patterns of flattening sloping terrain to erect high rise buildings. This approach usually results in disturbing local ecosystems which protection is an important requirement towards achieving the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Studies examining the special patterns of urban extensions onto hills and the driving forces of behind the deterioration of environmental quality in cities are scarce. This paper aims to answer two questions; "What are the definitions and goals for sustainable landscape design for hillside urban extensions?" and "What are the real causes for the unsustainability of current urban hillside housing developments?" These questions will be approached, first through a literature review, and second through considering the case study of Chongqing Yue Lai ecocity and examining the limitation and remediation through the whole process of the land construction loop within the systemic approach. This article illustrates how sustainable urban hillside landscape design and planning can be achieved by balancing the priorities of four key stakeholders (government, developers, city dwellers, and local ecosystem). This calls for shifting from the central planning system dominated by local governments by including the equally important priorities of its citizens (human actors) and non-human actors (ecosystem).
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By studying Aboriginal maps, this speculative research discusses world heritage concepts about land and merges them into western urban contexts. Assumptions concerning spatial allocation and demarcation such as boundaries, divisions and... more
By studying Aboriginal maps, this speculative research discusses world heritage concepts about land and merges them into western urban contexts. Assumptions concerning spatial allocation and demarcation such as boundaries, divisions and geometric patterns are being contested by ideas pertaining to Indigenous narratives expressing holistic views about community, and the ecosystem as integrated components of broader organisations. First, this paper introduces principles of the Indigenous culture spurring viable land management by shared, equal and inclusive schemes as ones that also respond to global socio-environmental challenges. Alternative strategies are being considered relating to the soft demarcation of distinct areas understood as malleable aggregates merging with each other and with the landscape’s topological features, with reference to the Aboriginal culture. The techniques being proposed are further compared with original approaches in architecture and urban design develop...
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The work-in-progress project relates ecosystems with socio-technological systems (STS) in urban environments. It focuses on the development of more-than-human cities of the post-Anthropocene. Through a prototypical urban intervention... more
The work-in-progress project relates ecosystems with socio-technological
systems (STS) in urban environments. It focuses on the development of
more-than-human cities of the post-Anthropocene. Through a prototypical urban intervention POL-AI built from responsive wood, we aim to support
more-than-human edible and habitable landscapes on existing buildings, thus supporting urban connectivity for wild nature elements such as insects. The prototype covers elements that are often used in so-called insect hotels, pollinator gardens and artificial intelligence (AI) monitoring systems for pollination, garden ecosystems and responsive wood performance of habitats. Further on, this prototype will include QR codes, leading to its own Do-it-Yourself (DIY) recipe and a citizen-science mobile application, Spot-a-Bee', that informs the AI image recognition database when the pollinators are pollinating. Therefore, the project becomes generative. The prototype has been developed through gigamapping, which is a Systems Oriented Design tool for synergising the multi-centred perspective of related stakeholders. It is being robotically fabricated. However, making its iterations in makers' labs or even on a mitre saw
should be easy. We have recently faced high extinction rates in wild species and their habitats. The "Planetary Boundaries" model clearly points to biodiversity loss as one of the most alarming global issues. Yet, for some species, urban environments can offer better habitats than poisoned agricultural land; however, the connectivity between urban habitats is often low. Therefore, urban adaptations for more-than-human architecture are necessary to counteract biodiversity loss.
systems (STS) in urban environments. It focuses on the development of
more-than-human cities of the post-Anthropocene. Through a prototypical urban intervention POL-AI built from responsive wood, we aim to support
more-than-human edible and habitable landscapes on existing buildings, thus supporting urban connectivity for wild nature elements such as insects. The prototype covers elements that are often used in so-called insect hotels, pollinator gardens and artificial intelligence (AI) monitoring systems for pollination, garden ecosystems and responsive wood performance of habitats. Further on, this prototype will include QR codes, leading to its own Do-it-Yourself (DIY) recipe and a citizen-science mobile application, Spot-a-Bee', that informs the AI image recognition database when the pollinators are pollinating. Therefore, the project becomes generative. The prototype has been developed through gigamapping, which is a Systems Oriented Design tool for synergising the multi-centred perspective of related stakeholders. It is being robotically fabricated. However, making its iterations in makers' labs or even on a mitre saw
should be easy. We have recently faced high extinction rates in wild species and their habitats. The "Planetary Boundaries" model clearly points to biodiversity loss as one of the most alarming global issues. Yet, for some species, urban environments can offer better habitats than poisoned agricultural land; however, the connectivity between urban habitats is often low. Therefore, urban adaptations for more-than-human architecture are necessary to counteract biodiversity loss.
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By studying Aboriginal maps, this speculative research discusses world heritage concepts about land and merges them into western urban contexts. Assumptions concerning spatial allocation and demarcation such as boundaries, divisions and... more
By studying Aboriginal maps, this speculative research discusses world heritage concepts about land and merges them into western urban contexts. Assumptions concerning spatial allocation and demarcation such as boundaries, divisions and geometric patterns are being contested by ideas pertaining to Indigenous narratives expressing holistic views about community, and the ecosystem as integrated components of broader organisations. First, this paper introduces principles of the Indigenous culture spurring viable land management by shared, equal and inclusive schemes as ones that also respond to global socio-environmental challenges. Alternative strategies are being considered relating to the soft demarcation of distinct areas understood as malleable aggregates merging with each other and with the landscape's topological features, with reference to the Aboriginal culture. The techniques being proposed are further compared with original approaches in architecture and urban design developed since late modernism, challenging enduring practices. Seen next to each other, these models of thought are suggestive of a paradigm shift by which architecture reinforces deeper connections with the intellectual, sociocultural, and natural resources of the greater cosmos. Furthermore, as these ideas are propelled by computing, they lead towards the dynamic linking of analysis with the design results producing all-sustainable structures that are widely applicable, as architecture's contribution to the current socio-scientific discourse on holistic approaches with a more-than-human perspective.
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The Paresite-The Environmental Summer Pavilion designed for reSITE festival, is a möbius shaped structure, built from torsed pine wood planks in triangular grid with half cm thin pine wood triangular sheets that provide shadow and... more
The Paresite-The Environmental Summer Pavilion designed for reSITE festival, is a möbius shaped structure, built from torsed pine wood planks in triangular grid with half cm thin pine wood triangular sheets that provide shadow and evaporate moisture in dry weather. The sheets, cut in a tangential section, interact with humidity by warping themselves, allowing air circulation for the evaporation in arid conditions.The design was accomplished in Grasshopper for Rhino in combination with Rhino and afterwards digitally fabricated.This interdisciplinary project involved students from the Architectural Institute in Prague (ARCHIP) and the students of the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (FLD CZU). The goal was to design and build a pavilion from a solid pine wood in order to analyse its material properties and reactions to the environment and to accommodate functions for reSITE festival. The design was prepared within half term studio c...
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SpiralTreeHouse is built from rest trees in the forest as a place for meditation. It consists of stone base, untreated pine trees' logs' spiral fastened by rope netting (and local ivy in the future), inside hanged canvas and... more
SpiralTreeHouse is built from rest trees in the forest as a place for meditation. It consists of stone base, untreated pine trees' logs' spiral fastened by rope netting (and local ivy in the future), inside hanged canvas and central fire place. It is a structure constructed from local materials, which is in harmony with the dynamics of the tree and its responses to the environment that will develop over time due to its own growth and the growth of ivy. SpiralTreeHouse grows and ripples in the wind together with the tree, to which adjoins, but does not generate any load it since it is self-supporting. Thanks to the geometric principle of the design, shrinking of the wood is not in conflict. By tilt cloak hung only in the time of stay of visitors, it does not overshadow the oak tree leaves. It explored traditional use of natural ventilation in contemporary architecture. Ventilation directs the smoke from the fire over the crown and its leaves are not affected. Mining of constr...
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The EnviroCity 2014 festival was organised for a responsive wood research pavilion Loop. It was following and fulfilling the needs of the partial research goals, gained through observing and questioning an interaction with the pavilion... more
The EnviroCity 2014 festival was organised for a responsive wood research pavilion Loop. It was following and fulfilling the needs of the partial research goals, gained through observing and questioning an interaction with the pavilion and public space by performers from different disciplines, as well as by the visitors. Many were really targeting the connection and were getting attached to the object and its closest environment as close as possible by all their senses. The dancers were eager to explore its materiality and form in relation to the ground by laying under it or climbing it while expressively touching and smelling it or receiving its energy. The landscape architects were impressed by the humidity and fresh, wood smelling, air circulation inside of the prototype. Musicians were exploring its shape-material acoustics. The city gamers used its space for room division or board for notes, while the architectural historians used it as a meeting point for their city walks. Two...
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COLridor II has been built as an architectural solution by Collaborative Collective for Czech National Heritage Association’s exhibition on wood building constructors’ lineage Herzan (Davidová, Zímová, & HorákGoryczka, 2019). The project... more
COLridor II has been built as an architectural solution by Collaborative Collective for Czech National Heritage Association’s exhibition on wood building constructors’ lineage Herzan (Davidová, Zímová, & HorákGoryczka, 2019). The project is to support bio-corridorial relations of an adjacent park and city’s eco-system. Constructed and kept updated with local scouts,the structure holds, insulate and hydrates onions of blossoming plants to feed pollinators in very early spring’s very first sun and holds local specific seeds for birds. The interior part will invade the gallery space with an indoor eco-system and offer bird food to visitors for dissemination
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The paper unfolds a work of Synergetic Landscapes unit of Master of Architectural Design at the Welsh School of Architecture. This collaborative design unit focuses on generating potentials for coperforming landscape of human and... more
The paper unfolds a work of Synergetic Landscapes unit of Master of Architectural Design at the Welsh School of Architecture. This collaborative design unit focuses on generating potentials for coperforming landscape of human and non-human, living and non-living, natural and artificial participants of Grangetown community, Cardiff, Wales, UK. The term community in this project is extended from what used to be understood in anthropocentric culture. In 21 st century, i.e. rivers (such as Whanganui River) and others are reclaiming their legal personhood. This work aims to integrate variety of living and non-living agents within the community in codesigning flourishing environment with and for All. It aims for transition towards the era of Post-Anthropocene where living and non-living beings and systems coexist together in synergy. The methodology of Systems Oriented Design and full-scale prototyping has been implemented into a real life codesign laboratory that is performing in real life and real time.
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The gigamaps series is presenting work of students from Synergetic Landscapes unit of Master of Architectural Design at the Welsh School of Architecture. This collaborative design unit focuses on generating potentials for coperforming... more
The gigamaps series is presenting work of students from Synergetic Landscapes unit of Master of Architectural Design at the Welsh School of Architecture. This collaborative design unit focuses on generating potentials for coperforming landscape of human and non-human, living and non-living, natural and artificial participants of Grangetown community, Cardiff, Wales, UK. The term community in this project is extended from what used to be understood in anthropocentric culture. In 21st century, i.e. rivers (such as Whanganui River) and others are reclaiming their legal personhood with social, cultural, economic and environmental interests (Argyrou & Hummels, 2019). This work in progress aims to integrate variety of living and non-living agents within the community in codesigning flourishing environment with and for All. The preoccupation with defining the legal person in anthropocentric terms highlights what is of value to an [Anthropocene] society. The fact that the environment in most legal systems does not have legal personhood status, but that corporations do, is indicative of the fact that contemporary western societies see the natural world as being for profit (Hutchison, 2014). The project aims for transition towards the era of Post-Anthropocene where living and non-living beings and systems coexist together in synergy
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The paper presents a practice-based systemic design project regenerating former gardening colony of Prague 22 district. Codesigned with local and transdisciplinary stakeholders, COLreg is integrating human and non-human communities,... more
The paper presents a practice-based systemic design project regenerating former gardening colony of Prague 22 district. Codesigned with local and transdisciplinary stakeholders, COLreg is integrating human and non-human communities, generating a bioregion for-and with-all. Our regions and economies are dependent on the overall ecosystem. However, recent models are not good at equally integrating other species and beings. The COLreg project is aiming at introducing a new, 21st century, model of symbiotic synergy of Post-Anthropocene. Introduction:
Research Interests: Environmental Resource Management, Systems Oriented Design, Token Economy, Codesign, Anthropocene, and 11 moreBiotope Mapping, Regenerative Design, Circular Economy, Systemic Design, Non-anthropocentric Design, Token economy systems, Cross Species, Bioregion, systemic approach to architectural performance, gigamapping, and biocorridor
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Atelier byl veden mnou (Marií Davidovou), Šimonem Prokopem a Martinem Klodou a zaměřoval se na můj výzkum v oblasti materiálové performance masivního dřeva. Šimon prokop měl na zodpovědnost parametrické navrhování v Grasshopperu pro Rhino... more
Atelier byl veden mnou (Marií Davidovou), Šimonem Prokopem a Martinem Klodou a zaměřoval se na můj výzkum v oblasti materiálové performance masivního dřeva. Šimon prokop měl na zodpovědnost parametrické navrhování v Grasshopperu pro Rhino 5 a jím vytvořené výrobní výkresy pro digitální výrobu a Martin Kloda měl na zodpovědnost konstrukci, spoje a realizaci. Studenti se zapojili do mého výzkumu ve zmíněném oboru, tedy konkrétně do interakce dřeva s relativní vlhkostí vzduchu a teploty. Výsledek je prací celého teamu, tedy i vedoucích ateliéru, kteří se na designu podíleli. Myslím si, že zapojovat studenty do současného výzkumu by mělo být prioritou našeho školství. Projekt byl veden v Mezioborové spolupráci mezi Fakultou umění a architektury na Technické univerzitě v Liberci a Fakultou lesnickou a dřevařskou na České zemědělské univerzitě v Praze. Atelier měl jasnou metodiku: Systems Oriented Design, Research by Design s prototypováním v měřítku 1:1, Parametrický design, File to Fabr...
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Research Interests: Business, Food Security, Na, GE, Production economics, and 9 moreAnthropocene, HT, Circular Economy, AMPs, HS, Sb, S, Sustainability, and GF
Thematic GIGA-mapping (Sevaldson 2011; Sevaldson 2012; Sevaldson 2015) was used as an analysing tool for systemic relations of collected registered data, as well as existing information, merging hard data with tacit knowledge. The map... more
Thematic GIGA-mapping (Sevaldson 2011; Sevaldson 2012; Sevaldson 2015) was used as an analysing tool for systemic relations of collected registered data, as well as existing information, merging hard data with tacit knowledge. The map shows air flow passing through different layers of spaces as the most important factor of the climatic conditions, depth and height location as a second one. This is all interrelated in co-existence to the use of the spaces. Here it seems that symbiosis of humans and other species can play a crucial role in climate comfortand both mentioned vary over time. Therefore, we believe, that due to recent fast climate and society change, with expected weather extremes (Czech Republic Ministry of the Environment and Czech Hydrometeorological Institute 2015; Republic of Turkey Ministry of Environment and Urbanization 2012; Flaete et al. 2010; Richardson 2010), transformative adaptive architecture should be investigated with the use of biology: re configuration a...
2 In order to understand present conditions and the complexities, a review of past thinking that links us to a range of future, emergent possibilities may be necessary. Financial, digital and social landscapes are seldom static and those... more
2 In order to understand present conditions and the complexities, a review of past thinking that links us to a range of future, emergent possibilities may be necessary. Financial, digital and social landscapes are seldom static and those with the responsibility of maintaining and striving for natural-socioeconomic equilibrium, have a never-ending task of sweeping back a dynamic, systemic tide. The undesirable impacts of an unbalanced ICT (information, communication technology) focus based progress was voiced almost two decades ago by Huesing and Selhofer (2002), an argument that was reflected in the term “info-exclusion”. Observations regarding the digital age being “not so much as exclusion from information but rather by information” (ibid). This discussion relates purely to humans, not consider other species and other impacts. Fast-forwarding to current experiences and observations, and we see how the close links between societal structures, financial landscapes and individuals cu...
Research Interests: Transdisciplinarity, Inclusion, GE, HT, BD, and 8 moreBj, HB, JV, S, H, Systemics Cybernetics and Informatics, GF, and socio-environmental systems
This article introduces Gigamapping as a toolkit to help architects undertake analysis and design. Due to globalization, many architectural design companies have expanded into the international market. Gigamapping is a beneficial tool for... more
This article introduces Gigamapping as a toolkit to help architects undertake analysis and design. Due to globalization, many architectural design companies have expanded into the international market. Gigamapping is a beneficial tool for analysis and design, since it can help designers to display the relationships that affect designs in-context, thereby helping architects to analyse problems and settings. At the same time, it can be used for the integration of all parts of a project through the coherent connection of conceptual ideas and responses to the context. Additionally, it constitutes a powerful tool for supporting teamwork. MA AD is the design research Masters of the Welsh School of Architecture (WSA) of Cardiff University, and Analysis of Precedents is one of the core modules of it. The authors will use training from the Analysis of Precedent module and design-led research in MA AD to illustrate the role of Gigamapping for analysis and design.
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Ray 2 is wooden environment responsive screen system that reacts to changes in relative humidity. Based on the material properties of wood, cut in the tangential section, the system opens in dry weather thus airing the construction.... more
Ray 2 is wooden environment responsive screen system that reacts to changes in relative humidity. Based on the material properties of wood, cut in the tangential section, the system opens in dry weather thus airing the construction. Whilst in the humid conditions it closes, not allowing the moisture into the structure. The research method is Systems Oriented Design that is mapping complex interdisciplinary data into so called GIGA-maps all the way through the design process.
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This paper focuses on how to generate urban bio-corridors within the framework of the Synergetic Landscapes Project. The project is set up to deal with the problematique of the relationship between human and urban wildlife in Grangetown,... more
This paper focuses on how to generate urban bio-corridors within the framework of the Synergetic Landscapes Project. The project is set up to deal with the problematique of the relationship between human and urban wildlife in Grangetown, Cardiff, Wales, UK. The paper discusses the research on the context of the bio-corridor on a more general level. Based on this, the urban proposal for Grangetown is pointed out, and potential bio-corridors in Grangetown are suggested. Lastly, the paper proposes a prototype called Possible Fabrication as one of more possible leverage points for the urban proposal. Gigamapping is used as a tool for the whole design and research process.
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This paper aims to study the conflicts that arise from the ever-present need for housing and urban expansion, with a primary focus on creating an identity for these communities on the edge. It studies the shifting paradigm of the suburban... more
This paper aims to study the conflicts that arise from the ever-present need for housing and urban expansion, with a primary focus on creating an identity for these communities on the edge. It studies the shifting paradigm of the suburban community and proposes to reimagine the image of suburbia to balance out urban encroachment on rural landscapes through foodscaping the architecture. Concepts of communal living and communal food growing are explored spatially using design as a research tool to better understand how foodscaping can create a sense of place and social cohesion. The capacity of design to bring people together and increase social cohesion is explored through architecture that encourages communal food growing. These ideas form a preface to help broaden views of sustainable suburban living. These hypotheses are explored at different scales: from the urban scale to the building fabric scale. This study reflects on how to make in-between spaces into places; thereby giving them an identity and further exploring the way people would interact within these places using food production as a mediator. Thereby reflecting on how design at the urban scale affects the architecture of a building and vice versa. Conclusively, communal living could provide the necessary platform where the boundaries between the urban form and the building create opportune spaces to harmoniously manoeuvre the hierarchy of the private-semi-public-communal spaces while addressing food security of its citizens. INTRODUCTION While this study is not primarily focused on urban design and the form of settlements per se; it still attempts to understand the wider city context and the dynamics of its relation to the way people live in communities on the edge and the reciprocal impact it makes as a whole on the city itself. Focusing on suburban farming in semi-public spaces ranging from urban design to architectural design level, the spatial definitions of social relations, identity and quality of life of citizens within those spaces are analysed. Thereby using food production as a mediator, the Research Question to be explored is as follows: How can Communal food growing increase social cohesion and help to reimagine the image of 'Suburbia'?
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The article explores how the quality of life within a deprived urban environment might be improved through the ‘gamification’ of and interaction with, more-than-human elements within the environment. It argues that such quality may be... more
The article explores how the quality of life within a deprived urban environment might be improved through the ‘gamification’ of and interaction with, more-than-human elements within the environment. It argues that such quality may be achieved through the community’s multicentered value from the bottom up. This is shown through the case study of the Co-De|GT urban mobile application that was developed in the Synergetic Landscapes unit through real-life research by design experimental studio teaching. Complimentary experimentation took place during the Relating Systems Thinking and Design 10 symposium in the Co-De|BP workshop, where experts were able to be collocated for interactive real-time data gathering. This application addresses the need for collective action towards more-than-human synergy across an urban ecosystem through gamification, community collaboration and DIY culture. It intends to generate a sustainable, scalable token economy where humans and non-humans play equal r...
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Ray 3 is a fully functional envelope that reacts to relative humidity and temperature of air. Based on the material properties of pine wood, it is allowing dry air into semi-interior, while closing in humid weather. This is due to the... more
Ray 3 is a fully functional envelope that reacts to relative humidity and temperature of air. Based on the material properties of pine wood, it is allowing dry air into semi-interior, while closing in humid weather. This is due to the tangential section of the panelling that warps based on the different fibre density on the left and right side of the plate in low relative humidity percentage and high temperature. The envelope is meant for non-discrete architectural spaces, the spaces between exterior and interior. This design is a continuation of proposal Ray 2, The Performative Screen. Compare to the previous prototype of Ray 2, Ray 3 is a fully solving the performance, durability and is equipped with solved joinery and thermal, humidity permeable solution. Recent samples observations are leading to currently produced prototype that will close its panels at 75% relative humidity level, will be treated by salt water against biological decay and fastened by plugs attached at lower mo...
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The research on performative wood is held with great results at RCAT, Oslo School of Architecture and Design and ICD, Universitey of Stuttgart. Our project focused on the material performance of solid wood cut in tangential section with... more
The research on performative wood is held with great results at RCAT, Oslo School of Architecture and Design and ICD, Universitey of Stuttgart. Our project focused on the material performance of solid wood cut in tangential section with the use of graphical algoritm editor Grasshopper for Rhino and digital fabrication techniques as the design tools. PareSITE: The Environmental Summer Pavilion serves as a prototype to further research on material-environmental interaction of industrialy produced performative screens. The pavilion designed for reSITE festival, is a mobius shaped structure, built from torsed pine wood planks in triangular grid with half cm thin pine wood triangular sheets that provide shadow and evaporate moisture in dry weather. The sheets, cut in a tangential section, interact with humidity by warping themselves, allowing air circulation for the evaporation in arid conditions.
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The paper exemplifies possible traces of transition towards Post-Anthropocene that is envisioned as non hierarchical system. It is taking Morton’s discussion on ‘hyperobjectivity’ further into multi-layered codesign performed in real time... more
The paper exemplifies possible traces of transition towards Post-Anthropocene that is envisioned as non hierarchical system. It is taking Morton’s discussion on ‘hyperobjectivity’ further into multi-layered codesign performed in real time and real life across bio-digital agents, including humans. Though our planet might be recently experiencing drastic times and one catastrophic scenario follows the other, a natural succession often comes after most disasters.
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This short paper is a summary of Mapping and Methodology session abstracts, presentations and discussions of the Relating Systems Thinking and Design 8 symposium (RSD8) held at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of... more
This short paper is a summary of Mapping and Methodology session abstracts, presentations and discussions of the Relating Systems Thinking and Design 8 symposium (RSD8) held at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, organised by the Systemic Design Association (Systemic Design, 2018). The topic of the conference was ‘Systems Change + Design for Governance’ (“RSD8,” 2019). The all work in progress (WIP) presentations in this session were touching the topic of systems change and governance through discussing design of mapping and tools when the ‘product’ design process could be given out of the hands of the designers. Ryan Murphy, who is co-authoring with Jennifer DeCoste and Heather Laird presented an online accessible real time participatory modelling for social systems that is editable and open to multiple kinds and number of stakeholders who map themselves. The tool called ‘Open Social Mapping’ was discussed in relation to Systemic Design based o...
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Kapitola pojednava o procesu navrhovani a výroby objektů pro výstavu Herzan: Stavitelský rod z Třebice, kterou pořada Narodni pamatkový ustavu, Muzeum Vysociny Ttřebic a Městske kulturni středisko Třebic. Architektonicke řeseni výstavy se... more
Kapitola pojednava o procesu navrhovani a výroby objektů pro výstavu Herzan: Stavitelský rod z Třebice, kterou pořada Narodni pamatkový ustavu, Muzeum Vysociny Ttřebic a Městske kulturni středisko Třebic. Architektonicke řeseni výstavy se nazýva COLridor II a bylo vypracovano Collaborative Collective, z.s. jako pokracovani konceptu „jedle krajiny“. Hlavni organizator výstavy, Narodni pamatkový ustav, si kladl za cil vytvořit taborakovou branu, ktera bude ctit tesařske, stavitelske, architektonicke a volnocasove uspěchy vsech clenů rodiny Herzanů. Volnocasove taborakove aktivity maji na Třebicsku dlouhou a silnou tradici, tendence pracovat s mladeži se nejsilněji projevovala u Jiřiho Herzana, jehož taborakove brany jsou v projektu COLridor II významnou inspiraci. Soucasti zadani bylo vytvořit instalace kolaborativnim způsobem tak, že se na jejich výrobě budou podilet mistni spolky a uskupeni. Symbol brany je stylizovan do venkovniho objektu, který je zamýslený jako poutac k výstavě. ...
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This article argues that whilst our recent economic models are dependent on the overall ecosystem, they do not reflect this fact. As a result of this, we are facing Anthropocene mass extinction. The paper presents a collaborative... more
This article argues that whilst our recent economic models are dependent on the overall ecosystem, they do not reflect this fact. As a result of this, we are facing Anthropocene mass extinction. The paper presents a collaborative regenerative region (COLreg) co-creation and tokenisation, involving multiple human and non-human, living and non-living stakeholders. It unfolds different stages of multicentred, systemic co-design via collaborative gigamapping. In the first steps, certain stakeholders are present and certain are represented, whilst in the final stages of generative development, all stakeholders, even those who were previously just potential stakeholders, take an active role. The ‘COLreg’ project represents a holistic approach that reflects today’s most burning issues, such as biodiversity decrease, unsustainable food production, unsustainable economic models, and social systems. It combines top-down and bottom-up approaches to co-create to achieve regional social and envi...
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This article seeks the qualitative synthesis of schools of thought from extreme climate regions that could support urban biodiversity and climate change adaptation through architectural design. It proposes that climate comfort and... more
This article seeks the qualitative synthesis of schools of thought from extreme climate regions that could support urban biodiversity and climate change adaptation through architectural design. It proposes that climate comfort and biodiversity are closely related. This article suggests a possible systemic urban metabolism within a built environment that can support a transition to post-Anthropocene, where humans and other species live together in synergy. This article exemplifies and seeks systemic relations and reflections of gathered field studies documentation of case studies of breathing walls, envelopes, and screens generating bioclimatic layers in the cultural landscape, selected for their penetrability and performance. The samples from diverse study journeys that were codesigned through vernacular cultures and the author’s research by design speculations on the responsive screen ‘Ray’ are investigated and speculated upon through gigamapping (visual complexity mapping). This g...
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This article integrates a series of diverse projects that together exemplify and interpret the Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance (SAAP) that has been developed by the author. SAAP is a fusion of several process-based fields... more
This article integrates a series of diverse projects that together exemplify and interpret the Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance (SAAP) that has been developed by the author. SAAP is a fusion of several process-based fields and their media and agency, namely: a) Systems oriented design; b) Performance oriented architecture; 3) Prototypical urban interventions; d) Time-based design; e) Service design; and f) Co-design, co-creation and DIY. The article presents SAAP’s relations to these fields and concludes with their integration and synergy in a ‘Real Life Co-Design Laboratory’, where collaborative and collective processes are seen as the resulting design objects or rather, objectives.
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This special issue of FormAkademisk comprises a selection of articles developed from presentations at the seventh Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD7) symposium, held at Politecnico di Torino, Turin, 23th-26th October 2018... more
This special issue of FormAkademisk comprises a selection of articles developed from presentations at the seventh Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD7) symposium, held at Politecnico di Torino, Turin, 23th-26th October 2018 (Barbero, 2018). A second collection from RSD7 is also planned to be published in FormAkademisk during 2020, continuing the close relationship between the journal and the RSD conference series (Forlizzi, Sevaldson, & Ryan, 2017; Hensel, Hensel, & Sevaldson, 2019; Jones, 2014; Sevaldson, 2018; Sevaldson & Ryan, 2014). The occasion of the RSD7 conference was especially important in the development of systemic design, being the occasion of the launch and founding meeting of the Systemic Design Association (SDA). The SDA will act as a membership organisation for the expanding community of practitioners and researchers that has developed through the RSD conferences.
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The mission of the present trans-disciplinary community environmental project COLridor (Davidová, 2017b) is to generate a situation of eco-systemic co-living across local species’ and abiotic agency in an urban environment through their... more
The mission of the present trans-disciplinary community environmental project COLridor (Davidová, 2017b) is to generate a situation of eco-systemic co-living across local species’ and abiotic agency in an urban environment through their co-design. Located in the city centre of Prague, the case study bio-tope is a part of larger bio-corridor that has evolved namely thanks to the adjacent railway and water stream. Though the prevailing opinion of European urbanists stays that cities should remain dense and separate from the rest of nature, landscape ecologists and biologists tend to disagree. There is no nature on Earth without human beings and these together evolved reflecting each other’s impact and interaction. A great variety of species have adapted and evolved for the urban environment that, at the moment for many, offers safer and more habitable living environment than agricultural land full of herbicides, pests, antibiotics and antibiotics resistant bacteria. Through systematic...
The research claims that traditions are not static. They develop and adapt based on the present situation. Due to the recent climate extremes coming to formally mild climate locations, their architectures can learn from traditional ones... more
The research claims that traditions are not static. They develop and adapt based on the present situation. Due to the recent climate extremes coming to formally mild climate locations, their architectures can learn from traditional ones from more climate extreme locations. The present systemic design study on semi-interior, ‘non-discrete spaces’ (Hensel, 2013; Hensel & Turko, 2015), of Norwegian traditional architectures, so called ‘svalgangs’ and ‘skuts’ examine its reuse for today climate change adaptation and support of biodiversity that is currently decreasing. Our agricultural land become so toxic, that its species are recently moving and adapting for life in the cities. The discussed traditional spaces offer various boundary penetration of its surrounding environment while providing mediation of its biotic and abiotic agency. These do not cover only anthropocentric benefits for its users such as light and climate comfort but also offer opportunities of communication with other...
First-hand experiences in several design projects that were based on media richness and collaboration are described in this article. Although complex design processes are merely considered as socio-technical systems, they are deeply... more
First-hand experiences in several design projects that were based on media richness and collaboration are described in this article. Although complex design processes are merely considered as socio-technical systems, they are deeply involved with natural systems. My collaborative research in the field of performance-oriented design combines digital and physical conceptual sketches, simulations and prototyping. GIGA-mapping - is applied to organise the data. The design process uses the most suitable tools, for the subtasks at hand, and the use of media is mixed according to particular requirements. These tools include digital and physical GIGA-mapping, parametric computer aided design (CAD), digital simulation of analyses, as well as sampling and 1:1 prototyping. Also discussed in this article are the methodologies used in several design projects to strategize these tools and the developments and trends in the tools employed. The paper argues that the digital tools tend to produce s...
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The article explores how the quality of life within a deprived urban environment might be improved through the ‘gamification’ of and interaction with, more-than-human elements within the environment. It argues that such quality may be... more
The article explores how the quality of life within a deprived urban environment might be improved through the ‘gamification’ of and interaction with, more-than-human elements within the environment. It argues that such quality may be achieved through the community’s multicentered value from the bottom up. This is shown through the case study of the Co-De|GT urban mobile application that was developed in the Synergetic Landscapes unit through real-life research by design experimental studio teaching. Complimentary experimentation took place during the Relating Systems Thinking and Design 10 symposium in the Co-De|BP workshop, where experts were able to be collocated for interactive real-time data gathering. This application addresses the need for collective action towards more-than-human synergy across an urban ecosystem through gamification, community collaboration and DIY culture. It intends to generate a sustainable, scalable token economy where humans and non-humans play equal roles, earning, trading and being paid for goods and services to test such potentials for future economies underpinned by blockchain. This work diverges from dominant economic models that do not recognise the performance of and the limits to, material extraction from the ecosystem. The current economic model has led to the global financial crisis (GFC). Furthermore, it is based on the unsustainable perpetual consumption of services and goods, which may lead to the untangling and critical failure of the market system globally. Therefore, this work investigates how gamification and tokenization may support a complementary and parallel economic market that sustains and grows urban ecosystems. While the research does not speculate on policy implications, it posits how such markets may ameliorate some of the brittleness apparent in the global economic model. It demonstrates a systemic approach to urban ecosystem performance for the future post-Anthropocene communities and economies.
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This paper discusses a wider range of agents in responsive wood performance problematique. This is done through an example of prototyped envelope Ray (see Figure 1) that circulates air in dry warm settings and encloses itself in humid and... more
This paper discusses a wider range of agents in responsive wood performance problematique. This is done through an example of prototyped envelope Ray (see Figure 1) that circulates air in dry warm settings and encloses itself in humid and cold micro-climatic conditions (see Figure 2). The envelope is to be applied on semi-interior or unclimatised spaces of a built environment while securing home to various residents (see Figure 3, Figure 7 and Figure 8). The commonly known factors of wood warping are its ambient air relative humidity and temperature. This research claims that the situation can be more complex and that the performance can be co-habited, co-lived, co-designed and co-created with more abiotic and biotic agents. This involves life preferences and social agendas across the species of the biotic part. This co-creative design process that has over-evolving results leads me to ratification of a new design field: Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance. Keywords. syst...
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Kapitola pojednává o procesu navrhování a výroby objektů pro výstavu Herzan: Stavitelský rod z Třebíče, kterou pořádá Národní památkový ústavu, Muzeum Vysočiny Ttřebíč a Městské kulturní středisko Třebíč. Architektonické řešení výstavy se... more
Kapitola pojednává o procesu navrhování a výroby objektů pro výstavu Herzan: Stavitelský rod z Třebíče, kterou pořádá Národní památkový ústavu, Muzeum Vysočiny Ttřebíč a Městské kulturní středisko Třebíč. Architektonické řešení výstavy se nazývá COLridor II a bylo vypracováno Collaborative Collective, z.s. jako pokračování konceptu „jedlé krajiny“. Hlavní organizátor výstavy, Národní památkový ústav, si kladl za cíl vytvořit táborákovou bránu, která bude ctít tesařské, stavitelské, architektonické a volnočasové úspěchy všech členů rodiny Herzánů. Volnočasové táborákové aktivity mají na Třebíčsku dlouhou a silnou tradici, tendence pracovat s mládeží se nejsilněji projevovala u Jiřího Herzána, jehož táborákové brány jsou v projektu COLridor II významnou inspirací. Součástí zadání bylo vytvořit instalace kolaborativním způsobem tak, že se na jejich výrobě budou podílet místní spolky a uskupení. Symbol brány je stylizován do venkovního objektu, který je zamýšlený jako poutač k výstavě. Cílem projektu COLridor II je navázání na dřevařskou tradici třebíčského rodu Herzánů, která je na zámku Třebíč prezentována veřejnosti prostřednictvím lineární retrospektivní výstavy, a zároveň poskytnutí eko-systemických služeb místu.
COLridor II navazuje na environmentální a sociální charakter této tvorby a dále rozvíjí principy našich předchozích environmentálních staveb SpiralTreeHouse (Davidová, 2013, 2014, 2016a, 2017a) a Co-oCo-oNest (Davidová & Neshevets, 2018). Vzhledem k současným trendům se nabízí možnost a potřeba reflektovat tyto tendence a vytvořit tak objekty z responsivního dřeva a tím podpořit městské společenské a eko-systemické služby. Proto geometrická konstrukce z kulatiny nabízí jak místo k odpočinku a socializaci napříč eko-systémem, tak i koncept „jedlé krajiny“ (Creasy, 2004; Davidová, Zatloukal, & Zímová, 2017). Lanové výplety nabízí posezení pro lidi, zatímco geometrická konstrukce se zeminou nabízí místní cibulovité medonosné rostliny a semínka pro ptáky v období zimy. Jak dřevo, tak rostliny budou příznivě moderovat okolní klima.
COLridor II navazuje na environmentální a sociální charakter této tvorby a dále rozvíjí principy našich předchozích environmentálních staveb SpiralTreeHouse (Davidová, 2013, 2014, 2016a, 2017a) a Co-oCo-oNest (Davidová & Neshevets, 2018). Vzhledem k současným trendům se nabízí možnost a potřeba reflektovat tyto tendence a vytvořit tak objekty z responsivního dřeva a tím podpořit městské společenské a eko-systemické služby. Proto geometrická konstrukce z kulatiny nabízí jak místo k odpočinku a socializaci napříč eko-systémem, tak i koncept „jedlé krajiny“ (Creasy, 2004; Davidová, Zatloukal, & Zímová, 2017). Lanové výplety nabízí posezení pro lidi, zatímco geometrická konstrukce se zeminou nabízí místní cibulovité medonosné rostliny a semínka pro ptáky v období zimy. Jak dřevo, tak rostliny budou příznivě moderovat okolní klima.
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The Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance (SAAP) looks at an ecosystem as a more-than-human community and searches for its synergy. It integrates Systems Oriented Design (SOD) and its tool gigamapping methodology for... more
The Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance (SAAP) looks at an ecosystem as a more-than-human community and searches for its synergy. It integrates Systems Oriented Design (SOD) and its tool gigamapping methodology for multi-stakeholders and multidisciplinary cocreation amongst humans, a ‘real-life codesign laboratory’ with more-than-human stakeholders and reflection. These appear in feedback loops. SAAP focuses on more-than-human edible and habitable landscapes in urban environments and their social and generative agendas. Therefore, it is using tools such as prototypical urban interventions such as insect hotels, etc., their DIY recipes and mobile applications to introduce a more-than-human economy, bridging the interventions, their DIY recipes and more-than-human social engagement. Therefore, a community member can be paid for reproducing a DIY recipe of an insect hotel, as well as the insect can be paid for its ecosystemic performance, such as pollination. Artificial intelligence is being used to recognise such performance for associating value. This should generate resilient communities of Post-Anthropocene where humans and nonhumans coperform in synergy. We are all dependent on the overall ecosystem. However, recent economic models and our urban environments do not reflect it. Therefore, we are facing Anthropocene Extinction, which is, of course, also destructive to humans. This paper mainly reflects on an ongoing project COLife.
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Nacházíme se v období silných sociálních změn kdy se životní prostředí a s ním související demokracie ocitají na tenkém ledě. Společnost ve světě je rozdělená na dva tábory, jeden volající po větší míře participace a udržitelnosti, druhý... more
Nacházíme se v období silných sociálních změn kdy se životní prostředí a s ním související demokracie ocitají na tenkém ledě. Společnost ve světě je rozdělená na dva tábory, jeden volající po větší míře participace a udržitelnosti, druhý tíhne k diktatuře a zneužívání přírodních zdrojů. Jejich krystalizace vede k následné migraci obyvatel, která tyto skupiny ještě více rozděluje. V komplexitě tohoto současného světa je pro architekty nevyhnutelné přehodnotit svoji roli. Transdisciplinární kolaborativní praxe se začínají stále více obracet k širšímu spektru zúčastněných stran, a to především k veřejnosti. Tím se tyto procesy mění v co‐design. To znamená spolunavrhování se zainteresovanými aktéry, především s koncovými uživateli (Sanders & Stappers, 2008). Podíváme‐li se na tyto aktéry v architektuře z ne‐antropocentrického pohledu (Hensel, 2013), musíme zahrnout i ostatní biotické a abiotické členy eko‐systému, jako jsou například rostliny, živočichové, či klimatičtí činitelé. Design už není o formě, ale o jejich performanci (Leatherbarrow, 2013), či interakci (Davidová, 2009). Jedná se tedy o tak zvaně časově založený design, definovaný počátkem milénia Sevaldsonem (Sevaldson, 2004). Časově založený design, či design v čase, je stále se vyvíjející proces bez konečného výsledku, kdy dílčí výsledky jsou vlastně prototypy v plném měřítku či v primárním obsahu, modifikované v čase. Ve veřejném prostoru můžou zásadnější pozitivní sociální změnu vyvolat spíše městské prototypické intervence (Davidová, 2004; Doherty, 2005), které svému okolí dávají možnost podílet se na jejich vývoji a vlastně realizaci, než shora definovaný master plan. I ty můžou mít svůj základ v co‐ designu. Co‐design, na rozdíl od participace umožňuje aktivní navrhování účastníků oproti pouhému se vyjádření k navrženým řešením (Sanders & Stappers, 2008).
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The present research considers wood as a study material for a wider question on architecture’s environmental interaction. It aims to explore its potential for eco-systemic performances and atmospheres as well as to broaden the... more
The present research considers wood as a study material for a wider question on architecture’s environmental interaction. It aims to explore its potential for eco-systemic performances and atmospheres as well as to broaden the discussion on this problem area by accessing the public space and professional practice calls. My project researches such interactions through practical experiments as well as theoretical reflections, including examinations of other scientific, design, artistic and crafts disciplines. It honestly discusses the successes as well as the failures and weak points to develop a strong background for eco-systemic collaborative design-research practice.
The methodology Research by Design while full scale prototyping is covered by the Systems Oriented Design to interpret and develop complex environmental relations. While doing so, this work also claims develop the methodology itself and to generate theory through experimental practice. The fusion of these process based fields led to the ratification of new design field: Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance .
This is an article based thesis , where the texts of the articles have been shortened of the parts mentioned elsewhere in the work and underwent through language check. These serve as an addendum covered with an exegesis. Most of the repeating images were removed from the articles. If there is an exception this is reasoned through its important relation to the present text.
All substantial contributions are mentioned within the text and/or summarized in the Thanks chapter. To mention the main institutions and practice/NGO’s respectively, this research has been collaboratively developed at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University of Liberec, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague, the Architectural Institute Prague, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, the Faculty of Civil Engineering the Czech Technical University in Prague, Collaborative Collective, Defio, Oximoron, re.code.nature, CooLAND, Experis SDKM and reSITE.
This work is a second, revised edition of the thesis, when the first, work in progress, publication called Wood as a Primary Medium to Architectural Performance: A Case Study in Performance Oriented Architecture Approached through Systems Oriented Design (Davidová, 2016m) served as a tool to receive broader feedback from its readers. The first publication was kindly supported by EEA and Norway Grants through the project Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance, was printed on paper with 100% of recycled fibre. This edition was reviewed by a gender equal team and is to be defended in front of a gender equal selection of opponents. The work itself is dedicated to our Biosphere.
The methodology Research by Design while full scale prototyping is covered by the Systems Oriented Design to interpret and develop complex environmental relations. While doing so, this work also claims develop the methodology itself and to generate theory through experimental practice. The fusion of these process based fields led to the ratification of new design field: Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance .
This is an article based thesis , where the texts of the articles have been shortened of the parts mentioned elsewhere in the work and underwent through language check. These serve as an addendum covered with an exegesis. Most of the repeating images were removed from the articles. If there is an exception this is reasoned through its important relation to the present text.
All substantial contributions are mentioned within the text and/or summarized in the Thanks chapter. To mention the main institutions and practice/NGO’s respectively, this research has been collaboratively developed at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University of Liberec, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague, the Architectural Institute Prague, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, the Faculty of Civil Engineering the Czech Technical University in Prague, Collaborative Collective, Defio, Oximoron, re.code.nature, CooLAND, Experis SDKM and reSITE.
This work is a second, revised edition of the thesis, when the first, work in progress, publication called Wood as a Primary Medium to Architectural Performance: A Case Study in Performance Oriented Architecture Approached through Systems Oriented Design (Davidová, 2016m) served as a tool to receive broader feedback from its readers. The first publication was kindly supported by EEA and Norway Grants through the project Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance, was printed on paper with 100% of recycled fibre. This edition was reviewed by a gender equal team and is to be defended in front of a gender equal selection of opponents. The work itself is dedicated to our Biosphere.
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BioDiveIn is one of several interventions developed by collaborative efforts. These are testing the transition towards Post-Anthropocene and ecological aesthetics. The intervention offers multiple species habitats, edible landscapes and... more
BioDiveIn is one of several interventions developed by collaborative efforts. These are testing the transition towards Post-Anthropocene and ecological aesthetics. The intervention offers multiple species habitats, edible landscapes and water pools for bats, swifts, small-sized birds, squirrels, insects and plants. The intervention (touch point) is also equipped with two QR codes—one leading to DIY recipes to multiply the installation and one to spot-a-bee application for joining the citizen science on pollinators. The intervention was codesigned through gigamapping and full-scale prototyping through an experimental systems oriented design studio course with students, invited experts and other stakeholders. It resulted in DIY events and a launch with a gardening party to accommodate the plants in the prototype.
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The presented gigamaps were cocreated within the two-studio course—”COLife: More-than-Human Perspective to CoDesign,” I and II—held winter and spring, respectively, in 2022 and 23. The first semester maps the development of a prototypical... more
The presented gigamaps were cocreated within the two-studio course—”COLife: More-than-Human Perspective to CoDesign,” I and II—held winter and spring, respectively, in 2022 and 23. The first semester maps the development of a prototypical urban intervention, BioDiveIn. The second semester was the codesign of an urban game, GoCOLife, around BioDiveIn intervention. Several types of codesign processes where related stakeholders and discipline representatives were involved. We were combining digital and analogue technics. The gigamaps led to urban interventions that integrated social, environmental and technological systems for extending ecosystems.