Ecologies Design

Taylor & Francis

The notion of ecology has become central to contemporary design discourse. This reflects contemporary concerns for our planet and a new understanding of the primary entanglement of the human species with the rest of the world.\n\nThe use of the term \u2018ecology\u2019 with design tends to refer to how to integrate ecologies into design and cities and be understood in a biologically-scientific and technical sense. In practice, this scientific-technical knowledge tends to be only loosely employed. The notion of ecology is also often used metaphorically in relation to the social use of space and cities. This book argues that what it calls the \u2018biological\u2019 and \u2018social\u2019 senses of ecology are both important and require distinctly different types of knowledge and practice. It proposes that science needs to be taken much more seriously in \u2018biological ecologies\u2019, and that \u2018social ecologies\u2019 can now be understood non-metaphorically as assemblages. Furth.