The Cell, the Field, and the Tower: the spaces of ecological cybernetics
Goodbun, J. 2018. The Cell, the Field, and the Tower: the spaces of ecological cybernetics. in: Rumpfhuber, A. (ed.) Into the Great Wide Open Barcelona DPR Barcelona.
| Chapter title | The Cell, the Field, and the Tower: the spaces of ecological cybernetics |
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| Authors | Goodbun, J. |
| Editors | Rumpfhuber, A. |
| Abstract | Ecology and cybernetics, in their everyday folk meanings at least, might seem to be completely dissociated fields: the first suggesting the study of living organisms in their environments, and the other conjuring images of automation, machines, and their control and management. They share however a concern with understanding systems, and as even the most cursory study shows, the histories of these concepts are intimately intertwined with each other. In fact,, and have in fact I argue that they have, a common structure in a certain abstract spatial imaginary which determines thinking about systems in modernity. This spatial abstraction itself emerges through a new division of labour which transformed our production and thinking about bodies, machines, and buildings. This is the story of three architectural typologies – — the bounded cell, the networked field, and the observatory tower – —, a story which raises questions about the nature of architecture and its relationship to other forms of technical and scientific knowledge, and to systems theory in general. |
| Keywords | Architecture, Ecology, Cybernetics |
| Book title | Into the Great Wide Open |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publisher | DPR Barcelona |
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| Published | 2018 |
| Place of publication | Barcelona |
| ISBN | 9788494752315 |
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