Ecologies Design Transforming Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism

1. Introduction: Towards an ecologies design practice

Peter Connolly, Maibritt Pedersen Zari, Mark Southcombe

Section 1: Biological Ecologies Design and Regeneration

2. Introduction: a shifting paradigm in ecologically focused design

Maibritt Pedersen Zari

3. Engaging with life: the developmental practice of regenerative development and design

Bill Reed and Ben Haggard

4. Designing for living environments using regenerative development: a case study of The Paddock

Dominique Hes and Judy Bush

5. The paradox of metrics: setting goals for regenerative design and development

Richard Graves

6. Ecological design as the biointegration of a set of ‘infrastructures’: the ‘quatrobrid’ constructed ecosystem

Ken Yeang

7. Creating and restoring urban ecologies: case studies in China

Kongjian Yu

8. Towards wildlife-supportive green space design in metropolitan areas: lessons from an experimental study

Amin Rastandeh

9. The new design with nature

Nan Ellin

10. Biomimicry: an opportunity for buildings to relate to place

Dayna Baumeister, Maibritt Pedersen Zari, and Samantha Hayes

11. The emergence of biophilic design and planning: re-envisioning cities and city life

Timothy Beatley

Section 2: Documenting Social Ecologies

12. Introduction: How to Document Urban / Landscape Assemblages

Peter Connolly

13. City boids: diagramming molecular urbanism

Sabine Müller and Andreus Quednau

14. Why would we spend time drawing people doing their washing in a Chinese village?

Nigel Bertram and Marika Neustupny

15. Object-led interview: documenting geographical ideas

Victoria Marshall

16. Mapping informal settlements: a process for action

Diego Ramírez-Lovering, Daša Spasojević, and Michaela F. Prescott

17. Ethnographic drawings and the benefits of using a sketchbook for fieldwork

Karina Kuschnir

18. A landscape architectural anthropology of green: Bahrain

Gareth Doherty

19. Valparaiso Publico: graphic inventory of urban spaces in a Chilean city

Marie Combette, Thomas Batzenschlager, and Clémence Pybaro

20. Being with Hellersdorf: performative counter-mapping as a reflexive practice between architecture and anthropology

Diana Lucas-Drogan and Holger Braun-Thürmann

21. The happy city. An actor-network-theory manifesto

Albena Yaneva

22. The aesthetics of documenting urban and landscape assemblages

Peter Connolly

Section 3: Ecologies Design Practices

23. Introduction: on the need for and potentials of ecological design practice

Mark Southcombe

24. Indigenous ecological design

Rebecca Kiddle

25. Ngāi Tūhoe’s Te Kura Whare: our living building

Jerome Partington and Maibritt Pedersen Zari

26. Design in relationship with an ecological entity: case study design with Te Awa Te Puna

Bridget Buxton

27. On the Rise: case study of a hybrid coastal adaptation strategy

Keiran Ibell

28. There are no sustainable buildings without sustainable people

Fabricio Chicca

29. Labour ecology and architecture

Peggy Deamer

30. Integrating design teaching and practices

Rainer Hirth, Mark Southcombe, and Roseangela Tenorio

31. Stranded assets

Daniel Barber

32. (Hybrid) architecture in and over time

Sofie Pelsmakers, Jenni Poutanen, and Sini Saarimaa

Conclusion

33. A call to ecologies design action

Peter Connolly, Maibritt Pedersen Zari, Mark Southcombe

Biography

Maibritt Pedersen Zari is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Architecture and Interior Architecture in the School of Architecture at Victoria University, New Zealand. Peter Connolly is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture at Victoria University, New Zealand. Mark Southcombe is the Associate Dean of Postgraduate Research and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture at Victoria University, New Zealand.