05471namaa2201177uu 4500 oapen92373 oapen 20251217011848.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240724s2024a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 9781003320852 9781032341743 9781032341750 10.4324/9781003320852 doi oapen oapen eng dc A thema AF thema AFK thema AFKP thema AM thema AMV thema AMVD thema G thema GP thema GPF thema GPFC thema J thema JB thema JBS thema JBSD thema R thema RP thema RPC thema T thema TC thema TCB thema TQ thema Zhang, Zihao edt Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment Design Between Nature and Technology Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2024 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star 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. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Architecture thema Biochemical engineering thema Biotechnology thema City and town planning: architectural aspects thema Cybernetics and systems theory thema Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning thema Environmental science, engineering and technology thema Information theory thema Landscape architecture and design thema Non-graphic art forms thema Performance art thema Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects thema Regional and area planning thema Research and information: general thema Social groups, communities and identities thema Society and culture: general thema Society and Social Sciences thema Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes thema The Arts: art forms thema The Arts thema Urban and municipal planning and policy thema Urban communities thema AI anthropocene artificial intelligence assemblage co-production coding constructed environment cultivated wildness cybernetics design ecology environment landscape machine learning model nature nonhuman agency posthumanism sensing speculative speculative ecology technology transformation wildness Zhang, Zihao aut OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92373 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 36993 36993