Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment: Design Between Nature and Technology
Zhang, Zihao
- 出版商: Routledge
- 出版日期: 2024-07-25
- 售價: $5,680
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $5,396
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 276
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 1032341742
- ISBN-13: 9781032341743
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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.
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根植於當代景觀建築理論與實踐,《Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment》融合了藝術、設計和工程的範例,並結合了控制論和後人類主義的概念,提供了一個跨學科的檢視,探討控制論對建構環境的影響。控制論,即動物和機器中的通信與控制研究,距今已有近80年的歷史,隨著時間的推移,其相關性愈加凸顯。網路物理系統、感測網絡和空間計算——算法和智能機器——與人類及非人類行為者之間創造了無盡的反饋循環,共同產生了一個控制論環境。然而,當一個生態系統被智能機器精心管理時,我們還能稱之為野生自然嗎?後人類主義的理念,如新物質主義、行為者網絡理論和物件導向本體論,已在設計領域中變得越來越受歡迎,包括景觀建築,並可能提供了理解這種錯綜複雜現實的變革性框架。然而,設計仍然涉及一種意圖感和控制的衝動。我們該如何處理設計者的意圖與在控制論環境中多於人類的行為者共同產生的現實之間的緊張關係?後人類主義是否足以發展出一個框架,以超越我們過於人性化的思維方式?對於環境設計和工程學科的研究者、學者、從業者和學生而言,本書描繪了一個根植於非通信和不可控性的環保主義和生態設計範式,並對控制論進行了推測性的轉向。
本書的第8章和第9章可在 http://www.taylorfrancis.com 以可下載的開放存取PDF形式免費獲得,並遵循創用CC署名-非商業性-禁止改作(CC-BY-NC-ND)4.0許可證。
作者簡介
Zihao Zhang is a designer, educator, and scholar in landscape architecture. He currently serves as an assistant professor and interim director of the landscape architecture program at the City College of New York.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Zihao Zhang 是一位景觀建築的設計師、教育者和學者。他目前擔任紐約市立大學景觀建築課程的助理教授及臨時主任。