Abstract:
If we view things as connected (a whole)... not as static, but as a dynamic (living) system, we can begin to see where each "agent" or thing acts on and responds to other things in its environment and across many scales. Then we could begin to see the connections between how the behavior of the material, the behavior of the building, the community and ideas support (or negate) a kind of "ecology of mind and nature."This book is a compilation of a semester's worth of research and development that ended in a architectural design that was meant to encompass some evolutionary principles that are found in nature everyday, but are very seldom implemented in the profession of architecture.The final product is a digital urban exhibition gallery in downtown Chicago that portrays some of these evolutionary principles in a more abstract manner. The issues that are primary in my study are not meant to be literal interpretations of "natural kinetics" but more of a contemporary interpretation of what kinetics can mean in today's world of advanced technology.
