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dc.contributor.authorZhang, Zihao
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-17T09:53:59Z
dc.date.available2024-07-17T09:53:59Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92375
dc.description.abstractGrounded in contemporary landscape architecture theory and practice, Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment blends examples from art, design, and engineering with concepts from cybernetics and posthumanism, offering a transdisciplinary examination of the ramifications of cybernetics on the constructed environment. Cybernetics, or the study of communication and control in animals and machines, has grown increasingly relevant nearly 80 years after its inception. Cyber-physical systems, sensing networks, and spatial computing—algorithms and intelligent machines—create endless feedback loops with human and non-human actors, co-producing a cybernetic environment. Yet, when an ecosystem is meticulously managed by intelligent machines, can we still call it wild nature? Posthumanism ideas, such as new materialism, actor-network theory, and object-oriented ontology, have become increasingly popular among design disciplines, including landscape architecture, and may have provided transformative frameworks to understand this entangled reality. However, design still entails a sense of intentionality and an urge to control. How do we, then, address the tension between the designer’s intentionality and the co-produced reality of more-than-human agents in the cybernetic environment? Is posthumanism enough to develop a framework to think beyond our all-too-human ways of thinking? For researchers, scholars, practitioners, and students in environmental design and engineering disciplines, this book maps out a paradigm of environmentalism and ecological design rooted in non-communication and uncontrollability, and puts a speculative turn on cybernetics. Chapters 8 and 9 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape architecture and designen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape architecture and design::AMVD City and town planning: architectural aspectsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFK Non-graphic and electronic art forms::AFKP Performance arten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general::GPF Information theory::GPFC Cybernetics and systems theoryen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RP Regional and area planning::RPC Urban and municipal planning and policyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TC Biochemical engineering::TCB Biotechnologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communitiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technologyen_US
dc.subject.othercybernetics,constructed environment,environment,design,nature,technology,transformation,anthropocene,posthumanism,co-production,assemblage,artificial intelligence,AI,nonhuman agency,sensing,coding,model,wildness,cultivated wildness,ecology,speculative ecology,landscape,speculative,machine learningen_US
dc.titleChapter 9 Cybernetics and Landscapeen_US
dc.title.alternativeFrom Uncertainty to Opportunityen_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003320852-13en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isPartOfBookbef9f59c-6a1d-4ef3-877d-5aabc8f0946den_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032341743en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032341750en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages26en_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture


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