The Cluster of Excellence IntCDC warmly welcomes our third Junior Research Group Leader Dr. Marie Davidová.
Dr. Marie Davidová joined IntCDC in September 2021 as a Junior Research Group Leader. She is a registered architect in the UK and Norway, a founding member and chair of Collaborative Collective practice design-research network NGO, a founding member of Systemic Design Association, and a founding member and auditor of Creative Systemic Research Platform Institute.
Before starting her position in Stuttgart, Marie had been a lecturer (assistant professor UK equivalent in teaching & research) at the Welsh School of Architecture (WSA) and an affiliate of the Sustainable Places Research Institute at the Cardiff University. At the same university, she is a member of the Biodiversity and Resilience Action Plan Committee. Marie gained her master degree in architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and her Ph.D. in architecture and urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University in Prague.
Marie founded the Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance research by co-design field. This field discusses the question of cities’ adaptation to climate change and biodiversity loss. Current environmental ecology research shows that species that have adapted to agricultural land hundreds of years ago are recently adapting to life within the cities. Our agricultural land has become so toxic, due to pesticides, etc., that the built environment now offers them better living conditions. Our cities, therefore, need to adapt to such coliving situation if we are not to face complete extinction. The research demonstrates such adaptations through full-scale ecosystemic prototypical urban interventions, their and the ecosystem’s tokenization, and the prototypes’ historical context studies. It considers not only the prototypes’ design and creation process but also their performance within the ‘real-life’ environment. The research covers observations of prototypes’ generative codesigning agency across the ecosystem and speculations of their futures. The agency is including human and non-human, living and non-living communities. Further on, the work reaches a larger scale and layer through spreading its parametric DIY recipes and codes for prototypes’ locally adapted iterations for communities across the world. Her role in the cluster will codesign this field for existing building adaptations and the new building industry for the 21st century.
You can find more information on Dr. Marie Davidová here.
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