Gaps and futures in working between ecology and design for constructed ecologies

Grose, Margaret

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.08.011

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“…When practiced from an ecological worldview, design has the potential to shift thinking, practices, and lifestyles to more sustainable ones [19,26,[28][29][30][31][32][33]]. An ecological worldview inherently calls on design to integrate scientific, social, cultural, and metaphysical perspectives, knowledge, and intentions in artefacts, institutions, and processes that promote the sustainability of landscapes [18,19,31,[33][34][35][36]. Henceforth, we will refer to this approach as regenerative design, which can change current conditions to more sustainable ones by utilizing systems thinking and abductive logic.…”

Section: Design As An Integrative Transformational Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sustainability scientists, practitioners, ecologists, and designers increasingly recognize the demand to co-create more sustainable social-ecological systems [1,3,[5][6][7]11,31,35,40,[44][45][46][47][48][49][50]. It is imperative that ecological and sustainability theory and knowledge be integrated with design [29,51].…”

Section: Integrating Sustainability Ecology and Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Regenerative Development as an Integrative Paradigm and Methodology for Landscape Sustainability

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Although the integration of sustainability, ecology, and design has been recognized as necessary by scientists and practitioners, most transdisciplinary frameworks are not inclusive of the worldviews, paradigms, aims, processes, and components necessary for sustainability. Landscape sustainability science helps to focus scientist, scholar, practitioner, and stakeholder efforts toward sustainability at a pivotal level; however, collaboration and progress have been slow. Significant potential exists for design to be an integrative and transformational methodology toward landscape sustainability, yet it has not fulfilled this ambitious role. In this paper, we first build a case for regenerative development, a development and design methodology based on an ecological worldview, as an integrative platform for a new paradigm. This new paradigm, which we call regenerative landscape development, has the potential to thoroughly catalyze a shift toward regenerative sustainability. We then detail this new paradigm as a process that could continually enhance the capacities of living systems to increase health, well-being, and happiness. Next, to illustrate regenerative development in practice, we provide brief case studies of projects in Viña del Mar, Chile and Juluchuca, Guerrero, Mexico. Finally, we propose future recommendations and precautions in the construction of regenerative landscape development as a new paradigm. If fully understood, embraced, and realized, regenerative development holds incredible potential for a sustainable future.

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Section: Design As An Integrative Transformational Methodologymentioning

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Section: Integrating Sustainability Ecology and Designmentioning

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Regenerative Development as an Integrative Paradigm and Methodology for Landscape Sustainability

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“…Creating better links between the disciplines of urban design and ecology, as well as thinking in terms of an 'ecology for cities' in an integrated and systemic manner, is essential if we are to move toward a more sustainable future [5]. In ecological science, this insight has led to a growing interest in cities, where ecologists are beginning to revisit their role in relation to the urban design discipline [6,7]. From an earlier position that concentrated almost solely on ecological systems in non-urban areas (and in line with the previous "Balance of Nature" paradigm), ecology has begun to move towards a more dynamic, non-linear, and complex understanding of the interconnectedness of ecological and social systems [8][9][10].…”

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Towards a Social-Ecological Urbanism: Co-Producing Knowledge through Design in the Albano Resilient Campus Project in Stockholm

2018

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If we are to promote urban sustainability and resilience, social-ecological knowledge must be better integrated in urban planning and design projects. Due to gaps in the two cultures of thinking that are associated with the disciplines of ecology and design, such integration has, however, proven to be challenging. In mainstream practice, ecologists often act as sub-consultants; they are seldom engaged in the creative and conceptual phases of the process. Conversely, research aiming to bridge the gap between design and ecology has tended to be dominated by a relatively static and linear outlook on what the design process is, and what it could be. Further, few concrete examples of the co-production of ecological and design knowledge exist. In this paper, we give an account of a transdisciplinary design proposal for Albano Resilient Campus in Stockholm, discussing how design-seen as a process and an assemblage of artifacts-can act as a framework for co-producing knowledge and operationalizing concepts of resilience and ecosystem services. Through a design-based and action-oriented approach, we discuss how such a collaborative design process may integrate ecological knowledge into urban design through three concrete practices: (a) iterative prototyping; (b) generative matrix models; and, (c) legible, open-ended, comprehensive narratives. In the conclusion, we sketch the contours of a social-ecological urbanism, speculating on possible broader and changed roles for ecologists, designers, and the associated actors within this framework.

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“…However, they are consistently affected and changed by human activities, such as dam construction and urbanisation, where they have been called "constructed ecologies" (Grose, 2014). Due to complex gradients of disturbance, especially humancaused flow alteration (Mortenson & Weisberg, 2010), riparian land becomes periodically exposed when water recedes and thus are prone to colonisation by exotic species which are tolerant of disturbance and have rapid recovery strategies (Hood & Naiman, 2000;Magee, Ringold, & Bollman, 2008;Nilsson, Reidy, Dynesius, & Revenga, 2005;Rood, Braatne, & Goater, 2010).…”

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Effects of local and landscape factors on exotic vegetation in the riparian zone of a regulated river: Implications for reservoir conservation

Chen

Meurk

et al. 2017

Landscape and Urban Planning

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Gaps and futures in working between ecology and design for constructed ecologies

Cited by 39 publications

References 46 publications

Regenerative Development as an Integrative Paradigm and Methodology for Landscape Sustainability

Regenerative Development as an Integrative Paradigm and Methodology for Landscape Sustainability

Towards a Social-Ecological Urbanism: Co-Producing Knowledge through Design in the Albano Resilient Campus Project in Stockholm

Effects of local and landscape factors on exotic vegetation in the riparian zone of a regulated river: Implications for reservoir conservation

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