Ecology, Complexity, and Metaphor

Proctor, James D.; Larson, Brendon M. H.

doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[1065:ecam]2.0.co;2

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“…In this sense, 'carbon compounds' may manifest a 'double resonance' (Weingart & Maasen, 1997) arising from the interplay of scientific and popular metaphoric meanings (Proctor & Larson, 2005 In line with previous research, focusing on the role of communicative devices for making sense of issues, this article studies frames used in web-based discourses on the management of climate change and global warming, which we believe can be 'indexed' by carbon compounds. As compounds provide more opportunities for variation and change on the combinatorial and semantic level, compared to single words or single metaphors, we propose using them to track the dynamics of the climate change debate (see the next section).…”

Section: In Online Discourses On Climate Change Mitigation Introductionmentioning

confidence: 71%

From Carbon Markets to Carbon Morality: Creative Compounds as Framing Devices in Online Discourses on Climate Change Mitigation

Koteyko

Thelwall

Nerlich

2009

Science Communication

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Lexical combinations of at least two roots around 'carbon' as the lexical hub, such as 'carbon finance' or 'carbon footprint', have recently become ubiquitous in discourses on climate change in English speaking science, politics, and mass media. They are part of a new language evolving around the issue of climate change that can reveal how it is framed as a public issue by various stakeholders, how public attitudes and perceptions are shaped and which solutions to climate change and global warming are being proposed, contested and debated. In this article, we study the role of some of these 'carbon compounds' as tools of communication in different online discourses dealing with issues of climate change mitigation. By combining a quantitative diachronic analysis of their occurrences with a qualitative analysis of the contexts in which the compounds were used, we identify three clusters of compounds focused on finance, lifestyle, and attitudes, and then elucidate the different communicative purposes to which they were put between the 1990s and the early 21st century, reflecting a temporal shift in the debate. This approach may open up new ways of analyzing the different framings of climate change mitigation initiatives in the public sphere.

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Section: In Online Discourses On Climate Change Mitigation Introductionmentioning

confidence: 71%

From Carbon Markets to Carbon Morality: Creative Compounds as Framing Devices in Online Discourses on Climate Change Mitigation

Koteyko

Thelwall

Nerlich

2009

Science Communication

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“…Relation and interaction imply connectivity among parts or elements which together constructing the system. As illustrated in Figure 1, there is an issue about the relationship between parts and wholes that is central in ecology (Proctor and Larson, 2005). How parts construct wholes then generate complexity.…”

Section: Ecology and Complexitymentioning

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Ecology: Creative Tool in Understanding Interrelated System

Saginatari

Atmodiwirjo

2018

SHS Web Conf.

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Abstract. Moving towards a world with higher environmental awareness, the concept of 'ecology' has become particularly relevant for current architectural discourses. Studies about ecology sometimes are directly translated to sustainability because of its focus on efficiency of material and energy process. This paper argues that understanding ecology requires an ability to reveal the intro/interrelationship within the complex yet flexible ecological system. Demonstrating how 'ecology' is incorporated in the first year of architectural education, this paper aims to explore how ecology could be the basis of in developing an analytical tool towards the grounded understanding particular issue of the ecological system and its role as input in creative processing architectural education. The result of this study suggests how ecology has the potential as an analytical tool for reading the interrelated system.

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“…Much of cultural change arises from the introduction of new metaphorical concepts and the loss of old ones." 9 In preliminary phases of the architectural design process, the merit of a conceptual organizational idea is evaluated in terms of how it makes explicit those aspects of the project deemed critically important while at the same time accommodating -although not necessarily highlighting -a host of other concerns. As G.Z.…”

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“…8 Metaphors "as nomadic terms that link disparate discourses" not only draw connections between a condition we are seeking to explain and another, more familiar entity, they draw connections between the (problematic) condition and a world of associations corresponding to that new entity. 9 As such metaphors expand possibilities for working through the condition we may be struggling to explain, offering new trajectories of conceptualization that unbind us from sedimented understandings. Despite access to this new world of potential insight, however, not all characteristics we associate with the source domain tend to transfer, rather only those that are resonant (however unexpectedly).…”

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Metaphor, Architectural Design, and Environmental Response

Muller¹

2007

ENQ

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Value-laden articulations of the task of the architect guide manners of working - the concerns, inspirations and procedures given priority. Architectural practices in turn determine the nature of the physical constructs that result. If architects are contributing to environmental degradation by designing buildings that are inefficient and unhealthy, and a pressing need exists to advance more life enhancing, sustaining practices, then perhaps environmentally concerned architects ought not only work towards the creation of better performing, more resourceful building assemblies, but also to engage in basic reflection as to how design problems are expressed and the environmental receptivity such expressions reveal. By tracing the lineage binding utterance to practice to making, we might come to recognize that even subtle shifts in articulation can alter outcomes dramatically. Through such newfound awareness, we are open and encouraged to reexamine the architect’s role, to new descriptions of architecture, and to the possibility of deeper attunement and constructive engagement with our world. In their recent edited anthology on sustainable architectures, Simon Guy and Steven Moore suggest “while we might support and even encourage critical engagement with abstract theory about environmentalism, we are not interested in simply playing language games.” Although word play should not be the sole focus of our efforts, in a profession so reliant on effective communication, we should not underestimate the facility of language as constitutive of meaning. This paper explores metaphors as one potentially transformative means by which designers come to understand and describe the works they undertake. It examines the role of metaphors as agents of innovation, capable of heightening awareness of attributes often overlooked or undervalued, yet perhaps of critical significance given the particularities of a design problem seeking explication. This paper summarizes research into the process by which architects “respatialize” metaphors, how novel metaphorical insights have affected thought and practice in the past, and in our era of environmental crises how new categories of metaphor are reshaping and expanding our visions. The paper concludes with a consideration of what makes “green” metaphors effective and how awareness of such characteristics provides the impetus for future research in identifying and utilizing new metaphorical schemas in architectural design.

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Ecology, Complexity, and Metaphor

Cited by 44 publications

References 14 publications

From Carbon Markets to Carbon Morality: Creative Compounds as Framing Devices in Online Discourses on Climate Change Mitigation

From Carbon Markets to Carbon Morality: Creative Compounds as Framing Devices in Online Discourses on Climate Change Mitigation

Ecology: Creative Tool in Understanding Interrelated System

Metaphor, Architectural Design, and Environmental Response

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