At Biotoop Dijksgracht we connect creators with the public, in order to create a habitat for creative experimentation, research, cooperation and shared…
*Toward a Living Architecture?* examines the emerging field of generative architecture and its nexus with computation, biology, and complexity. Based on Christina Cogdell’s field research in architecture studios and biological labs, this book critiques generative architecture by evaluating its scientific rhetoric and disjunction from actual scientific theory and practice, definitively explaining the role of the natural sciences within contemporary architecture.
That fine FAM fellow is back, this time nosing around after some seeping stumps. At this time of year, please watch where you are going in the woods. Strange fluids are oozing, such as this orange paste, seeping from cut hardwood tree trunks, where gnomes with chainsaws were once busy. Get this stuff on your fur, and no one will know what to...
Anthropocenic rhetoric calls out “Man” as the agent of his own demise and simultaneously vaults him into position as the only viable saviour of the planet. Anthropocene thinking is so obsessed with Man’s independence that it forgets that there are other forces and powers among us. Plants are the world-makers we need to heed if we hope to grow liveable worlds. And our worlds will only be liveable worlds when people learn how to conspire with the plants.