Coexistence Journal by Andrew MacKinnon

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Andrew MacKinnon Winter 2021

Coexistence Winter 2021 Editor: Andrew MacKinnon 836149 Supervising Academic: Dr AnnMarie Brennan Architecture and Media Master of Architecture Semester 1, 2021 The University of Melbourne Melbourne School of Design © Copyright 2021 We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners and custodians of this land on which this work was created, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation and pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging. 2

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Contributors BC Architects & Studies Rosi Braidotti Carolyn Briggs Donna Haraway Indy Johar Anupama Kundoo Neri Oxman Peg Rawes Merlin Sheldrake Anne Tsing

Front cover: Neri Oxman and The Mediated Matter Group. Silkworms Spinning Structure. 2013. Photograph. Coexistence

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Architecture has always found a way to become embroiled in contemporary affairs; social, cultural and political. Today, the industry is under increasing pressure from all sides of the profession to tackle its environmental and social impact. This journal issue will explore the theme of Coexistence to interrogate compelling practical and speculative ways architects and multidisciplinary intellectuals are reframing architecture and humanity’s position within the world to inspire change. The chosen collaborators exemplify intellectual, conceptual, material, architectural, industry and regulatory change that could redefine contemporary architecture. This journal is a provocation to encourage curiosity and ongoing passion for challenging the conventions of architecture and integrating exciting knowledge and innovation.

A New Normal normalise.it

Synthetic Apiary for Bees Neri Oxman

Silent Spring Rachel Carson

Living Sea Wall Alex Goad 4

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It is very easy to get caught up in the nihilism and melancholy that surrounds an impending climate catastrophe and mass extinction. The extent of our damage to planet earth is overwhelming and the statistics make most solutions seem nigh on impossible. In fact, it is often easier to ignore the news all together and immerse ourselves into fictional dystopic futures. It had become clear as early as the 1960’s that Enlightenment thinking, and the technologies of the Industrial Revolution were negatively affecting global environments.1 The effects were only exasperated by the swift and prolific spread of Neoliberalism through globalisation and the efficiencies and monocultures of the Green Revolution.2,3,4- 5 The failure of Modernity to recognise regional, ecological, and cultural nuances led to the first historical efforts at reframing our position in the ecology of the world such as Superstudio’s Supersurface, Stewart Brand’s The Whole Earth Catalog and Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto.6,7-8 These each questioned the status quo, establishing projections as to where technology, cybernetics and a global community would take us. Humans became ‘connected’ through telecommunications, internet, and popular culture, but divisions grew larger as neoliberal thought became entrenched in all aspects of our existence.9-10 We lost a shared mythology and purpose, and an anthropocentric individualism became our guiding force. Now, we live with the consequences of our reckless capitalism; climate change and a sixth mass extinction. It is now clear that extractivism, urbanisation and pollution are not only affecting natural ecosystems, but the whole planets homeostasis. Our worldview has been humancentric and ironically enough, it is the proposal of a new geological epoch, the

Whole Earth Catalog Stewart Brand

Whole Earth Catalog Sample Page

Anthropocene, that has alerted us to this destructive perspective.11 We now understand that we share the planet, in ecosystems that are maintained by symbiotic relationships. Even our individual bodies are balanced by complex microbial symbiosis.12 The interrelation and complexity of our world cannot be rationalised, simplified, or comprehended by single fields of study but must be understood holistically.13 An accumulation of scientific, Indigenous, and academic knowledge including new materialism, environmental humanities, and posthumanities, is now beginning to be pieced together, forging a new multidisciplinary approach to design that could enable coexistence with earth’s other inhabitants. Seemingly disparate concepts and places are beginning to collide, and our simplistic taxonomies and categories will not be enough to reconcile their complexities. The only way to enable systematic change and find solutions to the wicked problem of climate change is to collaborate with professionals, governments, the public, minorities, and our non-human neighbours.

Insect Hotel, Systems Garden University of Melbourne

Cyborg Manifesto Donna Haraway

Supersurface Superstudio

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Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene feralatlas.org

Intellectual and conceptual change to our conservative and destructive building practices is paramount if we are to survive a climate catastrophe. Anna Tsing and her colleagues’ Feral Atlas explores the chain of repercussions set in motion by our global disruption of ecosystems.14 The website explores the anthropological side of what Peg Rawes explains more architecturally in relation architectural ecologies. Simply put, everything is interconnected and related, all actions have consequences, and our colonisation, extractivism and industrialisation has created a damaged planet that we must learn to mend or live with. Human infrastructures have caused damage and unleashed ‘monsters’, while natural infrastructures are delicate and lifegiving.15 Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life highlights the complexity of just one kingdom of life, fungi.16 While fungi is microscopic, it is also the largest organism on Earth, with much of the world’s ecosystems dependent on their connection to mycelium networks.17 Sheldrake elaborates on the multitude of uses for fungi within our current predicament

Co-Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth Buckminster Fuller Institute

including medicinal, material, and environmental.18 The Living’s Hy-Fi Pavilion at MoMA is an example of fungi’s application in architecture where mycelium blocks are grown to form renewable building material.19 Fungi not only provide new materials but can also change our perception, by ingestion or through comprehension.20 For fungi offer a different notion of time, one which is not linear, but endless, circular, and slow.21 While our entanglement with these more-than-human actors highlights the urgency for action, it also asks us to slow down, observe, and question. Reframing our pedagogies, epistemologies and ontologies may redefine the role of the architect and provide exciting opportunity for discovery of new materials and building typologies.22 Entangled Life Merlin Sheldrake 6 Coexistence

Hy-Fi Pavilion. 2014. Photograph. Kris Graves. The Living

Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times Alexis Shotwell

Architects are complicit in the disruption of ecosystems, displacing materials through extractivism, destroying habitat by building, and contributing to large amounts of landfill waste and CO2 production. While architects operate within a larger system of negligence and destruction, a neoliberal free market economy, they can change their practice by introducing new design knowledge to guide thoughtful architecture.23 The current process of greenwashing imbues the modernist ideology of buildings as fetishised objects, disconnected from context, and does not address fundamental issues of embodied energy, energy usage, land use and human exceptionalism.24 Rather, it fuels green capitalism and a technological hubris.25 Anupama Kundoo, Francis Kéré and BC Architect’s architecture exemplifies a collision of vernacular and environmental architecture with material reverence.26,27-28 BC Architect’s work with earth blocks can be considered a New Materialist approach. 29 They follow the material from extraction out of the ground, through to the final product as it is assembled onto the building. The Regional House in Edeghem comprises

Radically Simple Architekturmuseum der TU München, Kéré Architecture

Botanical Pavilion NGV Triennial, 2021 Kengo Kuma + Geoff Nees

Site Specific Air Dried Compressed Earth Bricks BC Architects Coexistence

Rock Print Pavilion Gewerbe Museum Gergana Rusenova

Silk Pavilion Neri Oxman

photo.Synthetica ecologicstudio.com

BUGA Fibre Pavilion 2019 achimmenges.net

Volontariat Homes for Homeless Children. 2010. Anupama Kundoo 8

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air dried compressed earth block that the architects and volunteers dug, formed, and assembled by hand. This process makes the architects aware of the materials full journey from origin to building and reduces extraction, transportation, manufacturing costs and emissions.30 Designers such as ecoLogicStudio, Achim Menges and Neri Oxman are approaching a similar material ethos through high-tech solutions.31,32-33 Oxman coined the term ‘Material Ecologies’ to define her research where design, technology and biology meet. Her research of natural materials such as pectin, mycelium, silk and chitin aims to establish a new material palette for designers and architects that can benefit nature and humanity. Her multidisciplinary practice designs clothes, objects, art, pavilions and tests new biomaterials and robotics. The Silk Pavilion was an exciting project that used silkworms as biological printers to create a second structure for the pavilion, while still allowing the worms to metamorphosise and live their full natural life cycle, exemplifying a material process where both human and non-human parties mutually benefit.34 These examples speculate three futures for architecture; one that is earthy, vernacular, and low-tech, one that follows technological and scientific advancement, and another that perhaps finds a balance and fusion of the two.35 For no impact through extractivism and construction,

and highest output of natural space, a fourth future reveals itself, one that Superstudio attempted to pursue; an architecture of no architecture, paper architecture, anti-architecture.36 Industry and regulatory reform are necessary for coexistence to become a reality in our built environment. The process of rewilding is becoming increasingly relevant as urbanisation extends beyond our cities, and agricultural industries increase their reach on once wild ecosystems.37 Creating biodiverse urban habitat could become essential for the survival of humans, animals, and insects. It is important however, to separate affective rewilding through public spaces and integrated researched proposals from typical greenwashed urbanism often used by organisations as a subtext for top-down urban renewal and privatised spaces. The best urban fabrics for human coexistence are generated through negotiation between locals, professional, NGOs, and formal and informal governance.38 The question is how we extend this to more-than-human coexistence. Anupama Kundoo’s research, environmental, and humanitarian work, exemplified by the 2010 project for NGO Volontariat, Homes for Homeless Children, challenges the top-down approach to implementing social housing. The community

The Melbourne Donut Regen Melbourne

“We need a new spatial contract. In the context of widening political divides and growing economic inequalities, we call on architects to imagine spaces in which we can generously live together” Hashim Sarkis La Biennale Di Venezia, 2021

Tree-Infrastructure Dark Matter Labs

was involved in the building process and educated during construction allowing locals to upskill to replicate and renovate in the future. An emphasis on collaboration led to a design that maximised outdoor areas and gardens. Dark Matter Labs, founded by Indy Johar, has been researching urban responses to our 21st century problems.39 Johar argues that ‘form follows contracts’, not function, and that contracts, regulations and laws must fundamentally change for our implementation of new thinking to succeed.40 Dark Matter Labs proposes long term strategies, biodiversity, indigenous consultation, rewilding and most importantly, a new framework for understanding land ownership and capital.41 Elsternwick Park Nature Reserve is an upcoming Melbourne example of rewilding where Boon Wurrung Elder Carolyn Briggs, landscape architects, urban planners and engineers have come together to reinstate original swamps and creeks on a

#notmyAIA The Architecture Lobby

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Donna Haraway

failed golf course.42 Consultation with the Boon Wurrung has allowed for careful selection of native plants to best re-establish how the conditions would have been before colonisation.43 Bayside Council believe the projects will help mitigate flooding and urban heat that greatly affects the suburb of Elwood, while also increasing native bird, marsupial, amphibian, and insect populations.44 Rewilding is specific for each city and requires assemblage thinking, cooperation and an integration of Indigenous Knowledge to ensure all inhabitants of the ecosystem are equally considered.45-46

For The Wild Podcast

Elsternwick Park McGregor Coxall

Repair, Australian Pavilion, Venice, 2018 Baracco + Wright

A Mad Hatter-esque installation by London studio Superflux for the Venice Biennale invites non-human species to the table. Superflux, 2021

Opposite: Co-Fabricated Systems Neri Oxman 10

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Our survival on earth is dependent on our ability to coexist with our cohabitants. ‘Staying with the Trouble’ or die trying is our only way of living well and positively in such unprecedented times.47 In exploring the relationships of architecture, humans, materials, plants, and animals, we can perhaps shape a new design movement that embodies themes of entangled design, collaborative survival, and coexistence. Let this journal inspire you to challenge your employer, take risks at university and collaborate with your peers.

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Contributors BC Architects BC Architects and Studies consists of a team of four partners who deliver full architectural services and study local materials and building processes.48 Their title Brussels Cooperation (BC), alludes to their central ethos of designing for place and people, however recent research by academic Pauline Lefevre highlights their respect to materiality and process too. Lefevre followed their project Regional House in Edeghem where they used soil from the site to create air dried compressed earth blocks.49 In 5 weeks, with over 150 volunteers, they created 19000 blocks and installed 312 m2 of hempcrete for insulation. BC Architects are a relatively young firm, and it will be fascinating to see where their meticulous material methodology will be applied next. Algae Infused Tiles Bio-ID Lab Bartlett School of Architecture

Noceto, Thomas. Regional House Edeghem. BC Architects. 2015.

Rosi Braidotti

Posthuman Knowledge Rosi Braidotti

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Rosi Braidotti is a contemporary continental philosopher whose research is centred around Feminist Posthumanities. She calls for a re-evaluation of the humanities in an era where the fourth industrial revolution meets the sixth mass extinction event.50 Influenced by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Braidotti outlines the historical and present restrictions of our anthropocentrism and the humanities when viewed through traditional knowledge and power structures.51-52 The questioning of what we accept as truths can reframe our whole understanding of human and non-human relations and allow us to discover new ways to understand our future. The architect creates buildings based on an overwhelming set of parameters, many established by Enlightenment and Modernist thinking. Feminist Posthumanism asks architects to envisage a new built environment that breaks the rules of conservative, misogynistic power structures.

Carolyn Briggs N’arweet Carolyn Briggs is a Boon Wurrung Elder and founder of the Boon Wurrung Foundation. She has dedicated her career to teaching language and history to the next generation and the wider community. She has taken on many roles in multi-disciplinary research during her time at RMIT, Melbourne and Monash universities. Her recent role as an Indigenous advisor for the Elsternwick Park Nature Reserve has ensured that the Boon Wurrung people were closely involved in the project.53 An interdisciplinary team of planners, engineers, and landscape architects have worked with the community and Boon Wurrung to transform a golf course into a reserve that reinstates the precolonial wetlands, native plants and animals.54 Embracing Indigenous knowledge is essential for 21st century urban planning if we intend to reduce flood risk, urban heat, increase rewilding and enhance placemaking.

Cap Ferret House Lacaton & Vassal atlasofplaces.com

Boon Wurrung Elder Carolyn Briggs

Donna Haraway Donna Haraway is a Professor Emerita and prominent scholar whose multidisciplinary work has become pertinent to many fields of study. Her famous Manifesto for Cyborgs in 1985 was an ‘ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism and materialism’ and paved the way for her subsequent works.55 Haraway’s latest book, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, looks to reframe our anthropocentric world view established by the Enlightenment, Modernism, Capitalism and the Anthropocene.56 The Chthulucene is an attempt to broaden our existence to one that is connected and respectful of other world beings and materials.57 She calls for care and curiosity. Her work finds a way to inspire enthusiasm, respect, and vitality in a time where pessimism and melancholy can get the better of us.

Staying with the Trouble Donna Haraway

Story Telling For Earthly Survival Donna Haraway Coexistence 13

Indy Johar

Dark Matter Labs darkmatterlabs.org

Indy Johar is an architect and founder of Dark Matter Labs.58 He has been influenced by Sikh philosophy and quantum physics and believes that design needs must move away from object and image towards objectives. Dark Matter Labs is a multi-disciplinary design and research team working on finding alternative ways to approach architecture and urban planning. Their research is categorised into cities, education, experiments, finance, and institutions, but they propose integrated solutions that increase agency and democracy. While they explore similar themes to other practitioners such as Indigenous knowledge, biodiversity, and rewilding, their point of difference is the emphasis on planning and regulatory frameworks. Johar and his colleagues believe that changing our historical understanding of property and land, that was based on Feudal rule, can transform how we generate value and undermine false binaries like public/private and nature/ culture.59

Dark Matter Labs Team

Anupama Kundoo

Art Biotop Water Garden Junya Ishigami

Volontariat Homes for Homeless Children. 2010. Anupama Kundoo 14

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Anupama Kundoo is an Indian architect who situates her practice within research, environmentalism, and humanitarianism. Her built architecture is all in India, mainly Auroville, a ‘new city’ that was established in the 60’s, and her research has taken her to the US, Australia and Europe.60 Her practice research experimental applications of common materials such as terracotta, recycled glass, rammed earth and ferrocement. The 2010 project Volontariat Homes for Homeless Children featured catenary shaped dome houses that were made from mud. The highly experimental project used bicycle wheels for formwork, glass bottles as structure and the houses themselves as kilns to fire the handmade mud bricks. By using local materials and labour, the community reduced money spent and learnt new skills to later add to or improve the housing. Kundoo’s approach exemplifies the possibilities of community driven, sustainable architecture that considers materials carefully.

Neri Oxman Neri Oxman is a multi-disciplinary designer whose work synthesises biology, design, architecture, and art into high-tech, environmental objects. Her work with naturally occurring structural materials such as pectin, mycelium, silk, chitin and other biopolymers led her to coin the term ‘Material Ecology’.61 Oxman’s research has investigated ways of co-fabricating structures with insects and cells in a more reciprocal relationship with nature. While a lot of her work has used biomaterials removed of their origins, like Achim Menges, her more architectural work such as Silk Pavilion exemplifies a mutually beneficial arrangement where silkworms build architecture and survive to live a full life cycle. Oxman’s works are as beautiful as they are inventive. She offers a high-tech future that does not neglect nature but looks to learn from it.

Hybrid Living Materials Neri Oxman

Water-Based-DigitalFabrication Neri Oxman

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Peg Rawes Peg Rawes is a Professor of Architecture and Philosophy at the Bartlett School of Architecture. She defines herself as ‘an interdisciplinary architectural historian whose focuses on ‘relational architectural ecologies’.62 Rawes looks to architectural and ecological histories of the human and nonhuman to understand how they are interrelated. Through her feminist lens, she argues that as we are part of an ecology, we must take responsibility and care, for our future is reliant on the health of the whole ecosystem. These ecosystems are not restricted by scale or discipline. They can be microscopic and planetary and operate in biology, economies, politics, and society. The architect’s responsibility is to follow materials, understand their impact on the total ecosystem, and make decisions based on care and understanding for the impact on these relational architectural ecologies. How will materials be sourced? How is land treated? Who inhabits these architectures?

Harriet Harriss, Rory Hyde, Roberta Marcaccio

Relational Architectural Ecologies Peg Rawes

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Merlin Sheldrake

Under the Skin Podcast Russell Brand

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and author of the book Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Sheldrake’s Ph.D. on underground fungal networks draws attention to the complex and diverse mushroom kingdom that support entire ecosystems. His work challenges our perception time and individuality as he joins the dots between the ‘Wood Wide Web’, zombie insects, psychedelics, and the largest organism in the world, fungi.63 Plants are reliant on fungi, and animals, including humans, are dependent on plants. The symbiosis of planet earth depends on these close relationships functioning well. Can architects utilise mycelium as a building product and should they be designing buildings that can integrate into fungi’s pre-existing network?

Fungi Merlin Sheldrake

The Third Landscape Gilles Clement

Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury/URBANA Friendship Centre

Discovery Page feralatlas.org

Opposite: Hy-Fi Pavilion. 2014. Photograph. Kris Graves. The Living 16 Coexistence

Anna Tsing Anna Tsing is an anthropologist who researches human and non-human relationships through the Environmental Humanities and is a co-creator and editor of the Stanford University Press website Feral Atlas.64 Feral Atlas is a playful and slow to digest website that explores the Anthropocene through the complex entanglements of natural ecologies and human infrastructures. It is an attempt to break down traditional categories and negative associations with ‘feral’ to establish a more holistic and academic understanding of our climate predicament. Tsing and her collaborators look at specific case studies and draw from multidisciplinary resources to establish a comprehensive profile that touches on invasion, empire, capital and acceleration. This interrogation of a more-than human actor highlights unknowns, re-establishes forgotten connections, and bring to the fore the full extent of human interference in once balanced ecosystems. The Feral Atlas does not aim to cause despair, but to inspire ‘new kinds of research as well as informing action and deepening debate.’65

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