Kindness in Architecture: The Multispecies Co-Living and Co-Design

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COLreg: The Collective Regenerative Region

The paper presents a practice-based systemic design project regenerating the former gardening colony of Prague 22 district. Codesigned with local and transdisciplinary stakeholders, COLreg is integrating human and non-human communities, generating a bioregion for and with all. Our regions and economies are dependent on the overall ecosystem. However, recent models are not good at equally integrating other species and beings. The COLreg project is aiming at introducing a new, 21st century, model of the symbiotic synergy of Post-Anthropocene

Post-anthropocene: the design after the human centered design age

The paper exemplifies possible traces of transition towards Post-Anthropocene that is envisioned as non hierarchical system. It is taking Morton’s discussion on ‘hyperobjectivity’ further into multi-layered codesign performed in real time and real life across bio-digital agents, including humans. Though our planet might be recently experiencing drastic times and one catastrophic scenario follows the other, a natural succession often comes after most disasters

COLreg: the tokenised cross-species multicentred regenerative region co-creation

The article argues that whilst our recent economic models are dependent on the overall ecosystem, they do not reflect this fact. As a result of this, we are facing Anthropocene mass extinction. The paper presents a collaborative regenerative region (COLreg) cocreation and tokenisation, involving multiple human and non-human, living and non-living stakeholders. It is unfolding different stages of multi-centered systemic codesign via collaborative gigamapping. In the first steps, certain stakeholders are present, and certain stakeholders represented, whilst they are all, even the previously just potential ones, taking an active role in the final stages of generative development. The 'COLreg’ project represents a holistic approach that reflects today’s most burning questions, such as biodiversity decrease, unsustainable food production, unsustainable economic models, and social systems. It combines top-down and bottom-up approaches to cocreation to reach regional social and environmental justice of the coming symbiotic era of Post-Anthropocene

Applying a systemic approach for sustainable urban hillside landscape design and planning: The case study City of Chongqing in China

Rapid urbanization has led some Chinese cities to extend to hillside sites with recurrent patterns of flattening sloping terrain to erect high rise buildings. This approach usually results in disturbing local ecosystems which protection is an important requirement towards achieving the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Studies examining the special patterns of urban extensions onto hills and the driving forces of behind the deterioration of environmental quality in cities are scarce. This paper aims to answer two questions; “What are the definitions and goals for sustainable landscape design for hillside urban extensions?” and “What are the real causes for the unsustainability of current urban hillside housing developments?” These questions will be approached, first through a literature review, and second through considering the case study of Chongqing Yue Lai eco-city and examining the limitation and remediation through the whole process of the land construction loop within the systemic approach. This article illustrates how sustainable urban hillside landscape design and planning can be achieved by balancing the priorities of four key stakeholders (government, developers, city dwellers, and local ecosystem). This calls for shifting from the central planning system dominated by local governments by including the equally important priorities of its citizens (human actors) and non-human actors (ecosystem)

The role of university libraries in educational processes

Práce se zabývá vývojovými trendy uplatňovanými ve službách knihoven vysokých škol v ČR. Na základě vývojových trendů a provedené analýzy současného stavu je stanovena úloha knihovnických a informačních pracovišť ve vzdělávacím procesu. Moderní služby vysokoškolské knihovny reagují na společenské proměny, směřují ke znalostní společnosti a podporují transformaci vysokoškolského vzdělávání. Rovněž technologické možnosti zpřístupňování informačních zdrojů a automatizace činností zásadně ovlivňují knihovnické a informační procesy. Reflexe vývojových trendů vede nejen ke zkvalitnění činností a služeb, ale také ke zvýšení prestiže a společenského postavení vysokoškolských knihoven