Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Deep Green. investigates the potential. of nature-based technology for shaping. the evolution of contemporary architecture. and design. It takes on the now pervasive. topic of design intelligence, extending its. definition to encompass both biological. and digital realms. As in their first title, Systemic Architecture: Operating Manual for the Self-Organizing City. , the authors engage the topic through. the specific lens of their innovative design. practice, ecoLogicStudio, and their research. at the University of Innsbruck and at the. Bartlett, UCL. Part One of the book, entitled. PhotoSynthetica™, illustrates design. solutions that engage the urban microbiome. and seek to achieve an immediate. impact, while Part Two, entitled Deep. Green, includes synthetic landscapes and. operates within a much larger spatio-temporal. frame, going beyond human perception. and life span to envision design as a. geographical and geological force. In the age of catastrophic climate change,. such perceptual expansion helps to clarify. that change cannot simply be stopped. or rolled back. We must instead establish. more positive dynamics of change within. the living world. To this end, this book proposes. to engage with design and architecture. as an extended cognitive interface, a. sentient being that is co-evolutionary and. symbiotic with the living planet, contributing. to its beauty and to our continued enjoyment of it.