生物数字城市的起源

On the Origin of the Bio-Digital City

在本文中,作者主要介绍了一些利用前沿的数字设计技术来进行的材料和生物运算实践,以及存这背后的新的思考是如何从根本上影响我们对当代城市的构想的。首先,在科学/技术层面上,对这些材料运算方法的研究可以使设计师突破传统数字设计过程中所常用的以描述为导向的运算方法;其次,从社会/文化的角度来看,这种能够参与到生命物质进化过程中的机会有助于增加我们与周围环境之间的互动程度;而其最终的潜力将会是把整个过程中的任何一个观察者变为这个过程的共同设计者。基于此,本文进而将会对当前生态危机背景下建筑所呈现的角色进行讨论,并以此呼吁人们对当前这种新的地质时代——科学家们称之为"人类世"——进行批判性的解读。

With this article, the authors introduce how new insights on processes of material and biological computation enabled by cutting edge digital design techniques will have radical effects in the way we conceive contemporary cities. On a scientific/technical level, the study of these process of material computation enables designers to go beyond descriptive computation, typical of conventional digital design; from the socio/cultural perspective the possibility to engage the evolving processes of living matter enables a deeper form of interaction with our surroundings; ultimately the potential is to turn any observer of a process into its codesigner. From these premises the article discusses the role of architecture in the context of the current ecological crisis and calls for a critical reading of the current new geological era, which scientists call the ＇Anthropocene＇.