COLife: More-Than-Human Perspective to Co-Design

Research Project 29-1 (RP 29-1)

IntCDC Research Project 29-1 - COLife
COLIFE: MORE-THAN-HUMAN PERSPECTIVE TO CO-DESIGN

The aim this research project is to develop, test and evaluate the below listed co-design methodologies aimed at social and environmental change for the new envisioned Post-Anthropocene era where humans and other species live together in synergy. This will be developed for urban environments through architectural building adaptations. With a more-than-human approach, we will real-life participate in co-design of an urban ecosystem through architectural prototypical urban interventions. These interventions will be both, prototyped and tested in a ‘real-life co-design laboratory’. The prototype means a design artefact that will be tested for its performance. In this case, our prototypes’ performance will focus on the creation of more-than-human habitats and edible landscapes. The real-life co-design laboratory is a non-reductionist laboratory, that integrates the complexity of real-life rather than reducing the environment into separated particles and enclosed sterile environments. The methodologies of co-designing the real-life environment will consist of:

  1. Gigamapping - a co-creation tool for multicentred perspective with related stakeholders and community;
  2. Small size full-scale prototyping – realisation of the co-created prototypes and its placement into the real-life situations on architectural buildings;
  3. Community events and DIY recipes for the community engagement, thus the project becomes generative. It reproduces and thus cocreates connectivity (biocorridors) across the city;
  4. Evaluation – the social and the ecosystem performance – the public engagement data statistics analysis based on social media as well as DIY recipes reproduction as well as the healthy biotopes ecosystem data (an annual ecological study). We are recently experiencing the 6th Mass Extinction.

The urban environment plays a critical role in its mitigation. Many species are recently adapting to life in cities, offering them better conditions than by pesticides, herbicides, etc. poisoned agricultural land. For many species, cities are located on crucial migration paths, as they are typically founded on the rivers. Therefore, the urban ecosystem is critical to the overall biodiversity of the planet. However, our cities were not designed for such coliving situation. For generating environmental change, one needs to achieve social change and vice versa. Therefore, new approaches need to be developed in this field.

 

INDEPENDENT JUNIOR RESEARCH GROUP LEADER

Dr. Marie Davidová
Institute of Social Sciences (SOWI), University of Stuttgart

TEAM

Maria-Claudia Valverde (SOWI)
Hanane Behnam (SOWI)

 

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

  1. 2024

    1. Davidová, M., Valverde Rocha, M. C., & Behnam, H. (2024). BioDiveIn: Leveraging the ecosystem through social and environmental systems. In C. May & E. Barba (Eds.), Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD12) 2023 Symposium (pp. 1–17). Systemic Design Association. https://rsdsymposium.org/biodivein-leveraging-ecosystem/

  2. 2023

    1. Davidová, M. (2023). COLife—More-Than-Human Community Codesign: Cocreating Synergetic Post-Anthropocene Within Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance (A. Rubbo, J. Du, M. Ramsgaard Thomsen, & M. Tamke, Eds.; pp. 373–388). Springer. https://doi.org/P8. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36640-6_26
    2. Davidová, M. (2023). Designerly dancing with the systems: What design can give to systems thinking and systems practice. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 32(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.32.4.20
    3. Davidová, M., Barath, S., & Dickinson, S. (2023). Cultural Environments with More-than-Human Perspectives: Prototyping through research and training. AGATHÓN | International Journal of Architecture, Art and Design, 13, Article 13. https://doi.org/10.19229/2464-9309/13142023
    4. Ghazal, I., Mansour, R., & Davidová, M. (2023). AGRI|gen: Analysis and Design of a Parametric Modular System for Vertical Urban Agriculture. Sustainability, 15(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/SU15065284
    5. Saeidi, S., Anderson, M. D., & Davidová, M. (2023). Kindness in Architecture: The Multispecies Co-Living and Co-Design. Buildings, 13(1931), Article 1931. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13081931
    6. Saeidi, S., Andersson, M., & Davidová, M. (2023). Kindness in Architecture: The Multispecies Co-Living and Co-Design’. Buildings, 13, 1/21. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13081931
    7. Zavoleas, Y., Stevens, P. R., Johnstone, J., & Davidová, M. (2023). More-Than-Human Perspective in Indigenous Cultures: Holistic Systems Informing Computational Models in Architecture, Urban and Landscape Design towards the Post-Anthropocene Epoch. Buildings, 13(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/buildings13010236

  3. 2022

    1. Davidová, M., Fischer, L. K., & Teye, M. (2022). POL– AI: Leveraging Urban EcoSystem. In B. Sweeting (Ed.), Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD11) 2022 Symposium (pp. 1–11). Systemic Design Association.
    2. Davidová, M., Nousala, S., & Marlowe, T. J. (2022). Editorial Introduction – Sustainable, Smart and Systemic Design Post-Anthropocene: Through a Transdisciplinary Lens. Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 20(7), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.54808/JSCI.20.07.1
    3. Davidová, M., Sharma, S., McMeel, D., & Loizides, F. (2022). Co-De|GT: The Gamification and Tokenisation of More-Than-Human Qualities and Values. Sustainability, 14(3787), Article 3787. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.3390/su14073787
    4. Hu, X., Sibley, M., & Davidová, M. (2022). Applying a Systemic Approach for Sustainable Urban Hillside Landscape Design and Planning: The Case Study City of Chongqing in China. Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 20(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.54808/JSCI.20.07.121

  4. 2021

    1. Davidová, M. (2021). Breathing Artifacts of Urban BioClimatic Layers for Post-Anthropocene Urban Environment. Sustainability, 13(20), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132011307
    2. Davidová, M., Sharma, S., McMeel, D., & Loizides, F. (2021). CO-DE|GT BETA: The 21st Century Economy App for CrossSpecies CoLiving. In M. van der Bijl-Brouwer (Ed.), Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD10) 2021 Symposium (pp. 1–10). Systemic Design Association. https://rsdsymposium.org/co-degt-beta-the-21st-century-economy-app-for-crossspecies-coliving/

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

    DATA SETS

    1. 2024

      1. Davidova, M., Behnam, H., Valverde Rojas, M. C., Guerriero, C., Yeh, H., Huang, J., & Köse, M. (2024). COLife_02 - Gigamap and Game Design. DaRUS. https://doi.org/10.18419/darus-3985
      2. Davidova, M., Behnam, H., Valverde Rojas, M. C., Juarez, D., Grgurovic, N., Herlevi, L., Zinder, D., Bortone, L., Belli, F. S., & Gado, N. (2024). COLife_03 - Gigamap and DIY. DaRUS. https://doi.org/10.18419/darus-3986
      3. Davidova, M., Porqueddu, E., Behnam, H., Valverde Rojas, M. C., Zímová, K., Gazdová, K., Sweeting, B., Goodbun, J., Perera, D., Sadler, S., & Huthöfer, S. (2024). COLife_04 - Multi-Scale More-than-Human Atlas Gigamaping, Ecosystem Mapping and CoDesigning. DaRUS. https://doi.org/10.18419/darus-4123
      4. Davidova, M., Prokop, Š., Zímová, K., Goryczka, K., Michálek, O., Psaras, M., Konatzii, P., Kyprianou, S., Vučić, M., Hanzlík, K., Trgala, K., & Oberhofnerová, E. (2024). COLridor - Responsive Wood Insect Hotels. DaRUS. https://doi.org/10.18419/darus-4117
      5. Davidova, M., Teye, M. T., Fischer, L. K., Valverde Rojas, M. C., Behnam, H., Guimaraez di Stasi, M., He, M., Hildebrandt, H., Chau, W. M., Pittiglio, A., Asa, P., Kuo, C. C., Blagojevic, E., Hillebrecht, R., Hillemanns, T., Schaal, M., Spielvogel, M., Sweeting, B., Goodbun, J., & Perera, D. (2024). COLife_00 - Gigamap and Fabrication Data. DaRUS. https://doi.org/10.18419/darus-3981
      6. Davidova, M., Valverde Rojas, M. C., Behnam, H., Fischer, L. K., Fadini, T., Haueise, J., Hauke, A., Florescu, M., Ferrari, V., Ros, A. P., Vujovic, N., Knutelsky, S., Wosiak, O., & Candìa, M. (2024). COLife_01 - Gigamap and DIY Files. DaRUS. https://doi.org/10.18419/darus-3983

        

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