Zihao Zhang

Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment

Design Between Nature and Technology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Grounded in contemporary landscape architecture theory and practice, this book 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9781032341743
• ISBN-10: 1032341742
• Artikelnr.: 70149046

Autorenporträt

Zihao Zhang is a designer, educator, and scholar in landscape architecture. He currently serves as an assistant professor and interim director of the landscape architecture program at the City College of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Upscaling of the Cybernetic Imagination Part 1: The New
Machine in the New Garden 1. A Transformation Formula 2. The
Technology-Nature Edge: From Pastoralism to Anthropocene 3. The
Human-Technology Edge: From Ready-made Artefacts to Dematerialized Humans
4. The Human-Nature Edge: The Three Waves of "Nature Study" 5.
Posthumanism, Co-Production, and Assemblage Part 2: Posthumanism, the
Environment and Intelligent Machines 6. Searching for Nonhuman Agency
7. From Nonhuman Agency to Speculative Ontology 8. Coproductive
Intelligence Part 3: The Cybernetic Environment 9. Cybernetics and
Landscape: From Uncertainty to Opportunity 10. Reframing Cybernetics 11.
Sensing as Coding: The Episteme of the Digital Age 12. The Rise of
Intelligent Agents: A Non-Model-Centric Paradigm 13. Actuating Leads to
Attuning: Cultivated Wildness 14. Cultivated Wildness and Speculative
Ecology Conclusion: Design and Cybernetic Environment