Titlebook: Design for Rethinking Resources; Proceedings of the U Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen,Carlo Ratti,Martin Tamke Conference proceedings 2024 The Edit

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Post-extractive Material Practice: The Case of Quarried Stonentensity, and violence of current practices are theorized as ‘extractivism’, and as a number of recent publications and exhibitions have made clear, a post-extractive future is urgently needed. How and under what conditions can we address such an imperative? Is it possible to aim toward a pre-modern

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Towards a Bacterially-Induced Textile Architecture In the emerging field of biodesigned architecture, bacteria are involved in the visual expression as well as the structural performance of buildings. In this visual essay, we reflect on the results of a curriculum-based workshop focused on the biocalcification of textiles, a rigidification process

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Synthetic Naturesured for centuries, has become blurred. So, what is natural and what is artificial in the Anthropocene? The human struggle to contain systems running out of control, species going extinct, and catastrophic effects impacting our safety, has thrown our idea of ‘home’ into a fundamental crisis. Accordi

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Hardware Stories. DIY Practices as More-than-Human Material Activismrnist hygienist standardization. It is a set of diegetic prototypes of construction elements, with relative manufacturing and maintenance tools, and is showcased through a floor component. This work questions how much the mechanism of production of architectural construction materials, with its qual

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From Traditional (Vernacular) to Contemporary (New) Architecture: A Lesson from Southwest Nigeriahis paper looks at the vernacular architecture of the Southwestern Nigeria as practices by the indigenous Yorubas who have a peculiar climatic and socio-cultural and religious practice. The approach to architecture by this ethnic group was looked into with the intention of finding positive values in

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Making a Beam Social—In Search of a Localised Production Paradigment wasteful wood practice being single use in the construction sector, there is a need to reconsider discarded wood’s potential. This research project seeks an alternative to relying on uniform traits and economies of scale, proposing novel, high value applications for waste wood. A full-scale load