How to design with the animal: Constructing posthumanist environments

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dc.contributor.advisorLally, Sean
dc.contributor.advisorFranch, Eva
dc.creatorDodington, Edward M.
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-25T01:39:07Z
dc.date.available2011-07-25T01:39:07Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractWorking with and designing with other, non-human, biological species is one of the deepest challenges facing architecture today and human development in general. Rather than to preserve, or cater to outside species "How to Design with the Animal" demonstrates that Architecture can actively participate in the life around it. By directing, responding and intervening in the sensorial (audible, olfactory, or haptic) ranges of individual species, architecture and infrastructure can become redefined as animal players in a much larger system. As a sensorial device architecture would become part attractor, part program container and part animal/architecture interface. Animals and ecosystems would then begin to influence the siting and design of individual buildings and they in turn would attract individual species while also being subject to larger migratory, or environmental patterns. And, more than providing a space for program, a new posthumanist architecture could offer the visitor with the experience of participating in a conversation with another animal.
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.
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dc.format.extent93 pp
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 2009 DODINGTON
dc.identifier.citationDodington, Edward M.. "How to design with the animal: Constructing posthumanist environments." (2009) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/61887">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/61887</a>.
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2638
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/61887
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectPhilosophy
dc.subjectAgriculture
dc.subjectForestry
dc.subjectWildlife
dc.subjectArchitecture
dc.subjectUrban planning
dc.subjectRegional planning
dc.subjectSociology
dc.subjectArts
dc.titleHow to design with the animal: Constructing posthumanist environments
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitecture
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitecture
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architecture
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