Synergy in the systemic approach to architectural performance

Davidová, Marie

doi:10.7577/formakademisk.3387

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“…A critical part of the COLreg project is the 'real-life co-design laboratory' developed by the first author [52]. Rittel and Weber made it clear that the planning problem is a wicked problem.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

COLreg: The Tokenised Cross-Species Multicentred Regenerative Region Co-Creation

Davidová

Zímová²

2021

Sustainability

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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 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 environmental justice for the coming symbiotic post-Anthropocene era.

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COLreg: The Tokenised Cross-Species Multicentred Regenerative Region Co-Creation

Davidová

Zímová²

2021

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“…The author discussed the importance of combining gigamapping and prototyping in other publications [56,61]. The gigamaps map the complexity related to the prototype whilst the real-life prototypes test the complexity within the 'real-life codesign laboratory', which means that the prototypes are tested in the complexity of real-life environment [62][63][64]. The research analyses existing examples from the past because such prototypes were tested over generations through real life.…”

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Breathing Artifacts of Urban BioClimatic Layers for Post-Anthropocene Urban Environment

Davidová

2021

Sustainability

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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 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 gigamapping is not to present any hard data model but to relate, inform and speculate on the investigated field that is grounded in research by design on cross-species coliving. This is approached through possible architectures and architectural and urban design parasites, transitioning towards synergetic landscapes of our envisioned colived and cocreated futures.

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“…The vernacular, or often indigenous, knowledge is an invaluable source that has been developed over generations and has performed well in different climates and modes of architecture before the rise of the Anthropocene. Therefore, we need to continuously reinvestigate vernacular and indigenous cultures [41][42][43].…”

Section: Svalgangs Skuts and Breathing Envelopes-norwaymentioning

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Kindness in Architecture: The Multispecies Co-Living and Co-Design

Saeidi,

Anderson,

Davidová

2023

Buildings

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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 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 south-eastern 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 cross-species 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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Synergy in the systemic approach to architectural performance

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

COLreg: The Tokenised Cross-Species Multicentred Regenerative Region Co-Creation

COLreg: The Tokenised Cross-Species Multicentred Regenerative Region Co-Creation

Breathing Artifacts of Urban BioClimatic Layers for Post-Anthropocene Urban Environment

Kindness in Architecture: The Multispecies Co-Living and Co-Design

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