The Routledge Companion to Ecological Design Thinking: Healthful Ecotopian Visions for Architecture and Urbanism

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Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Foreword
Prologue
Ecological Perspective Domain One: Design Manifestos and Theories in Ecological Domains—Symbiotic Trajectories Between Ecological Organisms and Creative Design Thinking: Critical Design Idealisms on Ecotopian Design Trajectories in Bio-Socio-Techno Integrative Processes
	1.1 Designs for a Rapidly Transforming Human Culture
	1.2 Design with Nature Reconsidered: Then, Now, and Later
	1.3 Ecological Prototypes for Green Construction: Linking Architecture and Ecological Engineering for Integrated Urban, Agricultural, and Ecological Land Use
	1.4 From Evo-Devo Strategies to a Way Forward With Eco-social Evo-Devo for Generative Design Processes: Toward Extending the Polymorphism of Metabolic Architecture and the Integration of Diversities
	1.5 Digitalism in Morphogenetic Practices for Human Centric Design Thinking—Towards an Eco Animated Performative Gestalt Through Parametricism
	1.6 Systems of Systems: Architectural Atmosphere, Neuromorphic Architecture, and the Well-Being of Humans and Ecospheres
	1.7 Architecture Design in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: The Latent Ontology of Architectural Features
	1.8 Spatial Entities of the Future: Design Through the Lens of Neuroscience
Ecological Perspective Domain Two: Anthropocentric Transformative Design Concepts—Anthropocentric Non-Utilitarian Economics of Wellbeing and Resilience: Habitat, Community, Human Settlements, Movement, Transportation, and Diaspora, as Socio-Organisms for Livability
	2.1 Ecological Urbanism for Health, Well-Being, and Inclusivity: Engaging—Culture, Consciousness, and Nature
	2.2 Dimensions of Urban Infill for Cities in the Global South: The Case of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
	2.3 Design of the Future Neighborhood—Neighborhoods Back to the Future—In Resolving the Housing Crisis and Affordability
	2.4 Urban Heat Mitigation: Current and Future Trends
	2.5 Sustainability Within a Market-Based Ecological Order
	2.6 Future of Urban Design Through Generative Design Tools: New Data Sources and Analysis Practices in Urban Mobility and Environmental Studies
	2.7 Green Urban Futures: Regreening Cities to Enhance Health, Resilience, and the Urban Microclimate
	2.8 Urban Design in Search for Equilibrium: The Evolving Urban Metabolism of Sustainable Cities—Towards an Ethical and Sustainable Approach to City Building
Ecological Perspective Domain Three: The Design Connectivity Domain—Design Hybridity and Performativity in Non-Utilitarian/Utilitarianist Approaches and Views Toward Eco-Centric Environmental Behavior Transactions: Materiality, Biodiversity, Biomimetics, Energy Resiliency, and the Role of Technology
	3.1 Design Resiliency, Curbing Climate Change, and Temporal Trajectories for the Anthropocene
	3.2 Biomorphic Intelligence: Deploying Biotechnology in Architecture for Human Health and Wellbeing
	3.3 Material Ecology 1—Four Ecologies of Engineered Living Materials Research
	3.4 Materials Ecology 2—Optimization of Daylighting Performance and Solar Heat Gain Through Adaptive Kinetic Envelopes
	3.5 Environment-Aware Behavioral Envelopes: Design Ecologies, Adaptive Geometries, and Technologies for Climate Interaction
	3.6 Material Ecology 3—Smart Materials Essay One: Smart Materials for Thermo-Responsive Architectural Applications
	3.6 Material Ecology 3—Smart Materials Essay Two: Towards Passively Responsive Biomimetic Architecture
	3.6 Material Ecology 3—Smart Materials Essay Three: Macro Affects from Nano Assemblies in Bacteria-Based Hygromorphs
	3.7 Visionary Engineered Biotopes in Bringing Nature to High Levels: Towards Bioclimatic Skyscrapers—Achieving High-Comfort Low-Energy Sustainable Tall Buildings in Different Climate Zones
	3.8 Robots in the Room, Robots Are the Room: The Future of Robotics, Architectural Design, and Domestic Routine
	3.9 Sublimating Tectonics of Architecture: Innovations in Creative Structural Engineering
	3.10 Enabling Circular Economy in the AEC Industry Through Digitalization
	3.11 Ecotopian Visions for the Purification and Healing of Ailing Ecologies Impacted by the Anthropocene
	3.12 Architectural Computing and Design Optimization for Healthful Ecotopian Built Environments?
	3.13 Holocene to Anthropocene, Architectural Practice, Biomimetics in the Built Environment—Innovation in Architectural Firms Practices
Ecological Perspective Domain Four: The Climatic Design Domain—Methodologists’ Epistemological Views of Ecological Design: Ecosystem Climatic Organisms and Actions; Utilizing Elements of Water, Air/Space, and Soil/Land as Concepts, Opportunities, and Challenges for Design Thinking
	4.1 Innovative Design Solutions for Climatic Challenges of Sea Level Rise—Flooding and Ocean City Designs: Salty Urbanism: Towards an Adaptive Coastal Design Framework to Address Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
	4.2 Amphibious Buoyant Architecture—Designs for Living With Water: Floating Futures
	4.3 Design for Wildfire: Architecture as Catalyst for Virtuous Not Vicious Wildfire Activity
	4.4 Architecture That Bridges and Merges the Human-Made With Nature Essay One: Towards a Biometeorological Design—Architectures of the Planetary Invironment
	4.4 Architecture That Bridges and Merges the Human-Made With Nature Essay Two: Groundscapes—The Merger of Architecture and Ecology
	4.5 Embedded Architectures: Charting Its Traits en Route to Architecture and Environment Integration
	4.6 Climate-Friendly Green Infrastructure Planning and Design: The Promises, Vulnerabilities, and Remediation Design Practices for Environmental Contaminants
	4.7 Design for Air in the Urban Micro-Environments—How’s the Air on Your Block? The Outdoor Environmental Inequality in Cities
	4.8 The Future of Architecture on Earth and in Space: Lessons and Synergies: Essay One: The Evolution of Space Architecture and Its Potential to Inspire New Paradigms for Inhabiting Earth
	4.8 Futures of Architecture on Earth and in Space: Lessons and Synergies: Essay Two: A Space Architecture Primer for 21st-Century Civil Architects and Future City Evolution
Ecological Perspective Domain Five: The Social Design Domain—The Domain of Social Ecology in Using Design Tools: Equity, Diversity, Embodiment, Sustenance, Health, and Human Resiliency in Design Practices as Design Concepts
	5.1 Healthful Spatial Entities: The New Meaning of Healthful Measures for Building Occupants: Designers, Design, and Infection Control
	5.2 Social Performativity in Transformative Building Typologies: Architecture’s Contribution to the Societal Well-Being
	5.3 Socio-Material Capacities for Ecotopian Designs: Placing Architecture at the Nexus of Materiality, Neurodiversity and Social Behavior—Shifting Design Agency to Activate Neurodiversity
	5.4 Active Assisted Living Technology in the Context of the Built Environment
	5.5 Architectural Practice Exploring Scientific Eco-Centric Approaches for Healthful Anthropomorphic Environments—Innovation in Architectural Practice and Research: A Design Research Philosophy of Practice Informing Sustainability, Health, and Well-Being
	5.6 Therapeutic Spaces for Healthy Aging: Integrating Biophilic Design for Human and Environmental Wellbeing
	5.7 Biotic Jurisdictions: Transboundary Ecologies in the U.S.-Mexico Borderland
	5.8 Ecologically Performative Design Principles for Achieving Just Cities
	Epilogue: Architects, Artilects and Climate Change
Contributors’ Bios
Index