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Meso-Chaosmos: Situating Architectural Control
University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Department of Design, Interior Architecture and Visual Communication (DIV), Industrial Design. Göteborgs universitet.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5068-9350
2024 (English)In: Transpositiones, ISSN 2749-4128, Vol. 3, no 1, p. 55-80Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper describes architecture as a form of cosmotechnics (Hui) which currently manifests a Western-Christian worldview globally. This worldview is entangled with the assumption of a God-given right to control and subordinate nonhuman nature (anthropocentrism). The text looks at the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi - which itself is a cosmotechnical architectural-aesthetic concept embedded in a Zen Buddhist cosmology - and elaborates on its understanding of human-nonhuman control as an alternative example. Afterwards it zooms in on the notion of control and speculates where it is located on the spectrum between microcosm and macrocosm and to what degree it can be active or passive. The conceptual spectrumof microcosm-macrocosm is used to locate control. The qualitative spectrum of chaos-cosmos is used to define its magnitude and directionality. The paper argues for an architectural cosmotechnological understanding of control which is located partially in the physical and partially in the metaphysical world and which is partially active and partially passive - between chaos and cosmos. This conceptual intersection of both spectrums is defined as a point of continuous active negotiation between the human and the nonhuman world. Awareness of this intersectional control point affords a thinking of post-Christian, postcolonial and posthuman architectural cosmotechnics.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024. Vol. 3, no 1, p. 55-80
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Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
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URN: urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-9634DOI: 10.14220/trns.2024.3.1.55OAI: oai:DiVA.org:konstfack-9634DiVA, id: diva2:1856239
Available from: 2024-05-06 Created: 2024-05-06 Last updated: 2025-11-05Bibliographically approved
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1. Transmundane Architecture: Architectural Control Relationships Through the Lens of More-than-Human Onto-Epistemologies, Degrowth Practices and Occulture
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Transmundane Architecture: Architectural Control Relationships Through the Lens of More-than-Human Onto-Epistemologies, Degrowth Practices and Occulture
2024 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic) [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]

Architecture has traditionally focused on human-centred practices, emphasising control over construction processes and creating internal environments that separate humans from their external surroundings. The growing interest in posthuman theories introduces the concept of nonhuman agency into this predominantly human-centric field. This research seeks to explore the potential tensions between traditional design practices, such as architecture, and the impacts of nonhuman agency on associated design and construction processes. Building on experimental design research at the intersection of art, design and architecture, this research seeks to contribute to posthuman design discourse by critically examining the implications of occultural and degrowth themes through the design of a specific building located in the woods of Småland. The building is a method to explore the emerging design program of the research: human-nonhuman control relationships.[Bokinfo]

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Stockholm: Konstfack, 2024. p. 366
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Konstfack Dissertation Collection ; 9
Keywords
Architecture, Artistic Research, Posthumanism, Nonhuman, Agency, Degrowth, Occulture, Control, Care, Adaptation
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Architecture
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urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-10058 (URN)9789185549634 (ISBN)
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2024-12-17, Svarta havet, Konstfack, LM Ericssons väg 14, Stockholm, 10:30 (English)
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Available from: 2024-12-03 Created: 2024-12-03 Last updated: 2025-11-05Bibliographically approved

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