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COLife—More-Than-Human Community Codesign: Cocreating Synergetic Post-Anthropocene Within Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance
Marie Davidová, Maria Claudia Valverde Rojas, and Hanane Behnam
The Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance (SAAP) looks at an ecosystem as a more-than-human community and searches for its synergy. It integrates Systems Oriented Design (SOD) and its tool gigamapping methodology for multi-stakeholders and multidisciplinary cocreation amongst humans, a ‘real-life codesign laboratory’ with more-than-human stakeholders and reflection. These appear in feedback loops. SAAP focuses on more-than-human edible and habitable landscapes in urban environments and their social and generative agendas. Therefore, it is using tools such as prototypical urban interventions such as insect hotels, their DIY recipes and mobile applications to introduce a more-than-human economy, bridging the interventions, their DIY recipes and more-than-human social engagement. Therefore, a community member can be paid for reproducing a DIY recipe of an insect hotel, as well as the insect can be paid for its ecosystemic performance, such as pollination. Artificial intelligence is being used to recognise such performance for associating value. This should generate resilient communities of Post-Anthropocene where humans and nonhumans coperform in synergy. We are all dependent on the overall ecosystem. However, recent economic models and our urban environments do not reflect it. Therefore, we are facing Anthropocene Extinction which is, of course, also destructive to humans. This paper mainly reflects on an ongoing project COLife.
Originally published at Springer
