Morphogenetic Landscapes
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Morphogenetic Landscapes
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Author : Daniel Glenn Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Morphogenetic Landscapes written by Daniel Glenn Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
This thesis is concerned with the creation of systems that respond to selective environmental conditions in extreme environments resulting in varying levels of habitation. The development of these morphogenetic landscapes was arrived at through two parts. The first was a rigorous analysis of the role that biology, ecology, genetics and evolutionary development play in current architectural discourse. The second part consisted of discarding this current trend and developing a new methodology that instead of taking architecture as a given and applying a biological thread, attempted to work within current biological research and find the architectural thread. This methodology begins with a fundamental shift in the perception of the relationship between organism and environment. In traditional Darwinian evolution, the environment presents problems and the organism attempts to answer them by adaptation. However, the organism is no longer thought to be a simple set of closed physiological systems that simply buffer the external environment to maintain life and thus maximize the chance at reproduction. Rather, the organism and it's constructed environment form an immediate and co-evolutionary continuum that is based on fluctuating, but specific, information flows. This phenomenon is best exhibited in extreme habitats where a few harsh climactic parameters take precedence. In such situations, many phylogenetically diverse species utilize the same climate conditions which make the entire ecosystem interdependent on many scales. One example of such a habitat is the Namib Desert in southwest Africa. It is not only one of the hottest and driest places or Earth, it is also the geologically oldest desert in the world at 55 million years. These parameters converge to create one of the most evolutionary excited environments in the world. Thus, the goal is to develop an architecture within this specific continuum of environmental flows that could foster scientific study in the relation between organism and its effective environment. The environmenta parameters consist of extreme heat, high wind levels and the Namib's unique moisture rich fog. Through this biological and ecological analysis, the thesis became the creation of an architectural organism that selectively utilizes natural parameters to construct its own environmental continuum. Thus, the intervention was conceived as fostering no supporting [human] habitation while at the same time creating multiple microhabitats by its very existence. It is simultaneously a vehicle for study and an object of study.
European Rural Landscapes
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Author : Hannes Palang
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2004-05-31
European Rural Landscapes written by Hannes Palang and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-31 with Business & Economics categories.
This book, a compendium of 28 papers selected from two recent conferences on the topic, focuses on aspects of rural landscape, broadly related to issues of language, representation and power. These are issues that have not been addressed on a pan-European landscape level before.The aim is to offer a deeper interdisciplinary understanding of historical and contemporary processes in European landscapes.
Dwelling In Political Landscapes
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Author : Anu Lounela
language : en
Publisher: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Release Date : 2019-05-22
Dwelling In Political Landscapes written by Anu Lounela and has been published by Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-22 with Social Science categories.
People all over the globe are experiencing unprecedented and often hazardous situations as environments change at speeds never before experienced. This edited collection proposes that anthropological perspectives on landscape have great potential to address the resulting conundrums. The contributions build on broadly phenomenological, structuralist and multi-species approaches to environmental perception and experience, but they also argue for incorporating political power into analysis alongside dwelling, cosmology and everyday practice. The book’s 13 ethnographically rich chapters explore how the material and the conceptual are entangled in and as landscapes, but it also looks at how these processes unfold at many scales in time and space, involving different actors with different powers. Thus it reaches towards new methodologies and new ways of using anthropology to engage with the sense of crisis concerning environment, movements of people, climate change and other planetary transformations. Dwelling in political landscapes: contemporary anthropological perspectives builds substantially upon anthropological work by Tim Ingold, Anna Tsing and Philippe Descola and on related work beyond, which emphasises the ongoing and open-ended, yet historically conditioned ways in which humans and nonhumans produce the environments they inhabit. In such work, landscapes are understood as the medium and outcome of meaningful life activities, where humans, like other animals, dwell. This means that landscapes are neither social/cultural nor natural, but socio-natural. Protesting against and moving on from the proverbial dualisms of modern, Western and maybe capitalist thought, is only the first step in renewing anthropology’s methodology for the current epoch, however. The contributions ask how seemingly disconnected temporal, representational, economic and other systemic dynamics fold back on lived experience that are materialised in landscapes. Foremost through studying how socially valued landscapes become irreversibly disturbed, commodified or subjected to wilful markings or erasures, the book explores a number of approaches to how landscapes are entangled in the ways people gather and organise themselves. Mindful of troubling changes in Earth Systems, all the authors argue from empirics. They show that processes of landscape change are always both habitual and laden with choices. That is, landscape change is political. Undoubtedly, landscape politics is bound up not just in how nature has been imagined, but in long histories of consumption. Today, an alarming quest for raw materials and energy continues to change both political and geological formations. Meanwhile dominant socio-political aspirations mean the exploitation of staggering volumes of cheap resources like fossil fuels in order to sustain economic processes that are as taken-for-granted as they are unsustainable. Like anthropology generally, this book attends to the contextual details buried in such planet-scale pictures. Building on traditional anthropological strengths, many authors consider the details of how the past is brought into the present – or erased from it – in material flows and sensory awareness, as well as in narratives that are explicitly linked to particular landscapes. Colonial identity formation and the different ways that it links with how landscape is viewed and managed (for instance for resource development for a global market), whether in Southern Africa, Israel/Palestine, the Canadian arctic or Indonesia, is a particularly striking example of how to talk about landscape is also to talk about past, present and future. And as the idea that we inhabit the Anthropocene becomes commonplace, the discipline can meaningfully discuss the current era as one of disavowed ruins as well as of poorly understood multispecies relations. To think of landscape as historically produced across multiple scales, does not mean ignoring its sensuous qualities let alone its role in cosmological systems. On the contrary, the analyses in the collection attend to the ways people’s movements through the landscape produce it as a material and conceptual resource. Taken together, the book’s ethnographic analyses take on board the unprecedented conditions under which people everywhere are having to make sense and forge relationships to the worlds they inhabit. Since landscapes are not what they used to be, neither can anthropology be.
The Archaeology And Anthropology Of Landscape
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Author : Robert Layton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
The Archaeology And Anthropology Of Landscape written by Robert Layton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Social Science categories.
The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape contributes to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, provides new and varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents, and raises important policy issues concerning development and the management of heritage.
Soil Resource Inventories And Development Planning
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Soil Resource Inventories And Development Planning written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Soil surveys categories.
The Sage Handbook Of Geomorphology
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Author : Kenneth J Gregory
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2011-06-13
The Sage Handbook Of Geomorphology written by Kenneth J Gregory and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-13 with Science categories.
Geomorphology is the study of the Earth′s diverse physical land-surface features and the dynamic processes that shape these features. Examining natural and anthropogenic processes, The SAGE Handbook of Geomorphology is a comprehensive exposition of the fundamentals of geomorphology that examines form, process, and applications of the discipline. Organized into five substantive sections, the Handbook is an overview of: • Foundations and Relevance: including the nature and scope of geomorphology; the origins and development of geomorphology; the role and character of theory in geomorphology; geomorphology and environmental management; and geomorphology and society • Techniques and Approaches: including observations and experiments; geomorphological mapping; the significance of models; process and form; dating surfaces and sediment; remote sensing in geomorphology; GIS in geomorphology; biogeomorphology; human activity • Process and Environment: including the evolution of regolith; weathering; fluids, flows and fluxes; sediment transport and deposition; hill slopes; riverine environments; glacial geomorphology; periglacial environments; coastal environments; aeolian environments; tropical environments; karst and karst processes • Environmental Change: including landscape evolution and tectonics; interpreting quaternary environments; environmental change; disturbance and responses to geomorphic systems • Conclusion: including challenges and perspectives; and a concluding review The Handbook has contributions from 48 international authors and was initially organized by the International Association of Geomorphologists. This will be a much-used and much-cited reference for researchers in Geomorphology, Physical Geography and the Environmental Sciences.
Analytical Tools For Simulating Morphogenetic Processes Of The Landscape Of Power
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Author : Armando De Guio
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Analytical Tools For Simulating Morphogenetic Processes Of The Landscape Of Power written by Armando De Guio and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with categories.
Morphogenesis Of Symbolic Forms Meaning In Music Art Religion And Language
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Author : Wolfgang Wildgen
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-03-01
Morphogenesis Of Symbolic Forms Meaning In Music Art Religion And Language written by Wolfgang Wildgen and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
In the present book, the starting line is defined by a morphogenetic perspective on human communication and culture. The focus is on visual communication, music, religion (myth), and language, i.e., on the “symbolic forms” at the heart of human cultures (Ernst Cassirer). The term “morphogenesis” has more precisely the meaning given by René Thom (1923-2002) in his book “Morphogenesis and Structural Stability” (1972) and the notions of “self-organization” and cooperation of subsystems in the “Synergetics” of Hermann Haken (1927- ). The naturalization of communication and cultural phenomena is the favored strategy, but the major results of the involved disciplines (art history, music theory, religious science, and linguistics) are respected. Visual art from the Paleolithic to modernity stands for visual communication. The present book focuses on studies of classical painting and sculpture (e.g., Leonardo da Vinci, William Turner, and Henry Moore) and modern art (e.g., Jackson Pollock and Joseph Beuys). Musical morphogenesis embraces classical music (from J. S. Bach to Arnold Schönberg) and political songwriting (Bob Dylan, Leonhard Cohen). The myths of pre-literary societies show the effects of self-organization in the re-assembly (bricolage) of traditions. Classical polytheistic and monotheistic religions demonstrate the unfolding of basic germs (religious attractors) and their reduction in periods of crisis, the self-organization of complex religious networks, and rationalized macro-structures (in theologies). Significant tendencies are analyzed in the case of Buddhism and Christianism. Eventually, a holistic view of symbolic communication and human culture emerges based on state-of-the-art in evolutionary biology, cognitive science, linguistics, and semiotics (philosophy of symbolic forms).
Geomorphology Of Brazil Complexity Interscale And Landscape
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Author : Gisele Barbosa dos Santos
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-08-30
Geomorphology Of Brazil Complexity Interscale And Landscape written by Gisele Barbosa dos Santos and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-30 with Science categories.
This book presents the most relevant articles selected from the annals of the symposium. In the last few years, Brazilian Geomorphology has experienced a series of epistemological and methodological innovations expressed by the incorporation of the complexity paradigm, by the progressive break with the climate paradigm, by the emergency role of new theories, and by the advances in methodological fields favored by the adherence to geochronological techniques and in function of the increasingly widespread use of geotechnologies. Furthermore, the Anthropocene/Technogene emerge claims to be more than only a temporal cuts, but as conceptions of a science engaged with social and environmental issues. The National Symposium of Geomorphology, in the maturity of its 13th edition, constitutes a portrait and an important sample of Brazilian geomorphological production, aggregating works carried out in the most diverse types of landscapes of Brazil. The book provides an overview of the current scientific production of Brazilian Geomorphology, highlighting the diversity of landscapes and geoheritage in Brazil, the complexity of the morphogenetic and morphodynamic processes responsible for shaping its surface, and the various abundant methodologies used in geomorphological studies in tropical areas.
Landscapes Identities And Development
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Author : Zoran Roca
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Landscapes Identities And Development written by Zoran Roca and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Social Science categories.
Bringing together theoretical and empirical research from 22 countries in Europe, North America, Australia, South America and Japan, this book offers a state-of-the-art survey of conceptual and methodological research and planning issues relating to landscape, heritage, [and] development. It has 30 chapters grouped in four main thematic sections: landscapes as a constitutive dimension of territorial identities; landscape history and landscape heritage; landscapes as development assets and resources; and landscape research and development planning. The contributors are scholars from a wide range of cultural and professional backgrounds, experienced in fundamental and applied research, planning and policy design. They were invited by the co-editors to write chapters for this book on the basis of the theoretical frameworks, case-study research findings and related policy concerns they presented at the 23rd Session of PECSRL - The Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, organized by TERCUD - Territory, Culture and Development Research Centre, Universidade Lusófona, in Lisbon and Óbidos, Portugal, 1 - 5 September 2008. With such broad inter-disciplinary relevance and international scope, this book provides a valuable overview, highlighting recent findings and interpretations on historical, current and prospective linkages between changing landscapes and natural, economic, cultural and other identity features of places and regions; landscape-related identities as local and regional development assets and resources in the era of globalized economy and culture; the role of landscape history and heritage as platforms of landscape research and management in European contexts, including the implementation of The European Landscape Convention; and, the strengthening of the landscape perspective as a constitutive element of sustainable development.