TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zhang,Zihao
AU  - Zhang,Zihao
TI  - Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment: Design Between Nature and Technology
SN  - 9781003320852
PY  - 2024///
PB  - Taylor & Francis, Routledge [Imprint]
KW  - Architecture
KW  - thema
KW  - Biochemical engineering
KW  - Biotechnology
KW  - City and town planning: architectural aspects
KW  - Cybernetics and systems theory
KW  - Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning
KW  - Environmental science, engineering and technology
KW  - Information theory
KW  - Landscape architecture and design
KW  - Non-graphic art forms
KW  - Performance art
KW  - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
KW  - Regional and area planning
KW  - Research and information: general
KW  - Social groups, communities and identities
KW  - Society and culture: general
KW  - Society and Social Sciences
KW  - Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes
KW  - The Arts: art forms
KW  - The Arts
KW  - Urban and municipal planning and policy
KW  - Urban communities
KW  - AI
KW  - anthropocene
KW  - artificial intelligence
KW  - assemblage
KW  - co-production
KW  - coding
KW  - constructed environment
KW  - cultivated wildness
KW  - cybernetics
KW  - design
KW  - ecology
KW  - environment
KW  - landscape
KW  - machine learning
KW  - model
KW  - nature
KW  - nonhuman agency
KW  - posthumanism
KW  - sensing
KW  - speculative
KW  - speculative ecology
KW  - technology
KW  - transformation
KW  - wildness
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - Grounded in contemporary landscape architecture theory and practice, Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment blends examples from art, design, and engineering with concepts from cybernetics and posthumanism, offering a transdisciplinary examination of the ramifications of cybernetics on the constructed environment. Cybernetics, or the study of communication and control in animals and machines, has grown increasingly relevant nearly 80 years after its inception. Cyber-physical systems, sensing networks, and spatial computing-algorithms and intelligent machines-create endless feedback loops with human and non-human actors, co-producing a cybernetic environment. Yet, when an ecosystem is meticulously managed by intelligent machines, can we still call it wild nature? Posthumanism ideas, such as new materialism, actor-network theory, and object-oriented ontology, have become increasingly popular among design disciplines, including landscape architecture, and may have provided transformative frameworks to understand this entangled reality. However, design still entails a sense of intentionality and an urge to control. How do we, then, address the tension between the designer's intentionality and the co-produced reality of more-than-human agents in the cybernetic environment? Is posthumanism enough to develop a framework to think beyond our all-too-human ways of thinking? For researchers, scholars, practitioners, and students in environmental design and engineering disciplines, this book maps out a paradigm of environmentalism and ecological design rooted in non-communication and uncontrollability, and puts a speculative turn on cybernetics. Chapters 8 and 9 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92373
ER  -