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_id	ecaade2020_436
id	ecaade2020_436
authors	Pasquero, Claudia, Poletto, Marco and Greskova, Terezia
year	2020
title	Photosynthetic Architecture in times of Climate Change and other global disruptions.
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2020.1.583
source	Werner, L and Koering, D (eds.), Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age - Proceedings of the 38th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 16-18 September 2020, pp. 583-592
summary	This paper discusses architectural experimentation's shift from a carefully designed spatial practice into a distributed set of dynamic processes unfolding in time. When linearity shifts into a convoluted set of feedback loops, circularity emerges as a fundamental paradigm. The paper discusses a set of project descriptions and recent case studies from the work of the PhotoSynthetica venture, bringing together the experimental practice of ecoLogicStudio and the pioneering research of the Urban Morphogenesis Lab at UCL and the Synthetic Landscape Lab at UIBK. These projects demonstrate how the practice of architecture constitutes a distributed form of emergent collective intelligence.
keywords	digital fabrication; computation; cyber-gardens; cognition; bio-digital architecture
series	eCAADe
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_id	acadia20_668
id	acadia20_668
authors	Pasquero, Claudia; Poletto, Marco
year	2020
title	Deep Green
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.1.668
source	ACADIA 2020: Distributed Proximities / Volume I: Technical Papers [Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-578-95213-0]. Online and Global. 24-30 October 2020. edited by B. Slocum, V. Ago, S. Doyle, A. Marcus, M. Yablonina, and M. del Campo. 668-677.
summary	Ubiquitous computing enables us to decipher the biosphere’s anthropogenic dimension, what we call the Urbansphere (Pasquero and Poletto 2020). This machinic perspective unveils a new postanthropocentric reality, where the impact of artificial systems on the natural biosphere is indeed global, but their agency is no longer entirely human. This paper explores a protocol to design the Urbansphere, or what we may call the urbanization of the nonhuman, titled DeepGreen. With the development of DeepGreen, we are testing the potential to bring the interdependence of digital and biological intelligence to the core of architectural and urban design research. This is achieved by developing a new biocomputational design workflow that enables the pairing of what is algorithmically drawn with what is biologically grown (Pasquero and Poletto 2016). In other words, and more in detail, the paper will illustrate how generative adversarial network (GAN) algorithms (Radford, Metz, and Soumith 2015) can be trained to “behave” like a Physarum polycephalum, a unicellular organism endowed with surprising computational abilities and self-organizing behaviors that have made it popular among scientist and engineers alike (Adamatzky 2010) (Fig. 1). The trained GAN_Physarum is deployed as an urban design technique to test the potential of polycephalum intelligence in solving problems of urban remetabolization and in computing scenarios of urban morphogenesis within a nonhuman conceptual framework.
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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_id	ijac202018202
id	ijac202018202
authors	Pasquero, Claudia and Marco Poletto
year	2020
title	Bio-digital aesthetics as value system of post-Anthropocene architecture
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 18 - no. 2, 120-140
summary	It is timely within the Anthropocene era, more than ever before, to search for a non-anthropocentric mode of reasoning, and consequently designing. The PhotoSynthetica Consortium, established in 2018 and including London-based ecoLogicStudio, the Urban Morphogenesis Lab (Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London) and the Synthetic Landscape Lab (University of Innsbruck, Austria), has therefore been pursuing architecture as a research-based practice, exploring the interdependence of digital and biological intelligence in design by working directly with non-human living organisms. The research focuses on the diagrammatic capacity of these organisms in the process of growing and becoming part of complex bio-digital architectures. A key remit is training architects’ sensibility at recognising patterns of reasoning across disciplines, materialities and technological regimes, thus expanding the practice’s repertoire of aesthetic qualities. Recent developments in evolutionary psychology demonstrate that the human sense of beauty and pleasure is part of a co-evolutionary system of mind and surrounding environment. In these terms, human senses of beauty and pleasure have evolved as selection mechanisms. Cultivating and enhancing them compensate and integrate the functions of logical thinking to gain a systemic view on the planet Earth and the dramatic changes it is currently undergoing. This article seeks to illustrate, through a series of recent research projects, how a renewed appreciation of beauty in architecture has evolved into an operational tool to design and measure its actual ecological intelligence.
keywords	Bio-digital, bio-computation, bio-city, effectiveness, empathy, impact, sensing
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