Design Fiction
The Making of a Destiny
Niche Construction
SEN Architecture
Rather than design determinants such as artistic abstraction, as in Hadid’s work or Candela’s modernist structural expressionism, defining form, niche construction reestablishes the connection between environmental design and architecture with its roots: social factors.
The core meaning of being “social” in the SEN framework is that it fosters friendly interaction, community living, cooperation, and a sense of belonging among humans, nonhumans, and ecosystems alike.
Placing social factors at the center of social-ecological processes and treating them as key forces rather than external influences, the socio-ecological imagination explores how our actions ripple through the earth's living systems and delves into the dynamic relationships between humans, nonhumans, and ecosystems, revealing how each shapes the other as both social and biological forces.
Yet, much of this knowledge remains tucked away in technical journals and diagrams, inaccessible to the public in any meaningful way.
Niche construction, as envisioned here, urges environmental designers and architects to use socio-ecological data transformed into parametric algorithms to craft 3D spaces that describe coexistence.
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