ECOLOGY

The third issue of Abstrakt is about ecology, defined as a circular and nonhierarchical mode of planet co-inhabitation. As a design approach, it foregrounds the aim to define the spatial conditions for multispecies’, coexistence, codependency and synchronicity, in an attempt to impede the increasing rate of climate interference, treating all constituents as equal stakeholders.

This issue aims to provide different perspectives and approaches and discusses the challenges of how to design non-anthropocentric environments by drawing on this deepened understanding of the systems that architecture is embedded in. The interviews conducted with Sean Lally, Lukas Allner, Elisa Iturbe and Stanley Cho (Outside Development), and Daniela Mitterberger and Tiziano Derme (MAEID) give an insight into their visions of the role of technology, materiality, cultural paradigms and future scenarios. These contributions are accompanied by a series of architectural designs gathered from students and alumni at the Institute of Architecture at the Angewandte that engage with this notion of ecology of the built environment.