Explore the intersection of architecture and systemic design, where innovative design thinking shapes sustainable, adaptive, and socially responsible built environments for the future.
Christopher Alexander (1936–2022), architect and theorist of pattern languages, shaped architecture, planning, and computer science through works including A Pattern Language and The Nature of Order, and through a lifelong commitment to living architecture.
This issue is dedicated to SDA founder and chair, Marie Davidová, who passed away on April 10. Please contribute to an article about Marie’s influence on systemic design by adding your remembrance in the comments section.
Elena Porqueddu, Marie Davidová, Hanane Behnam, and María Claudia Valverde explore synergies between different mapping approaches—the multi-scale atlas and gigamapping—in this project funded by the German Research Foundation.
Marie Davidová, Hanane Behnam, María Claudia Valverde Rojas, and Kateřina Lagner Zímová collaborate on a pioneering project focused on creating sustainable urban habitats through the development of biocorridors.
Marie Davidova, Leonie K Fischer, and Martha Teye relate ecosystems with socio-technological systems in urban environments, “more-than-human architecture are necessary to counteract biodiversity loss.”
Marie Davidová reports on a prototypical urban intervention. The BioDiveIn and GoCOLIFE gigamaps serve as a process tool for co-designing with multiple actors, and linking social systems and technology to the ecosystem.
Danjian Wang and Marie Davidová explore how to generate urban bio-corridors within the framework of the Synergetic Landscapes Project. The paper proposes a prototype called Possible Fabrication as one of the more possible leverage points for the urban proposal.
Marie Davidová and Kateřina Zímová’s introduce COLreg, a synergistic post-Anthropocene model, generating a bioregion for and with all.
Maria Davidová presents the Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance and concludes with their integration and synergy in a Real Life Co-Design Laboratory.
Maria Davidová relates human, social, and biotic behaviour with climatic and geographical data, addressing interactions in the performance of architectures and urban design.
Maria Davidová’s maps express different ranges and intensities of behaviour or performance in relation to placement or designs that are represented by informational layer of images. These thematic gigamaps are exemplars of ZIP‐analysis, zooming in a problem within the area of study.
This book is for researchers and educators, and practitioners working to understand and achieve a better hybrid environment and who have been working in or with different types of boundaries, including technological, cultural, and physical boundaries in built environments.