Ecosystems Workshop 10

Dates _ 20.09.2022 - 23.09.2022

Tutors _ Delphine Lewandwoski, Paul Nicholas, Nadja Gaudillière-Jami

Partners _ Terrestrial Ecology Group, University of Copenhagen

There is an urge to bring a response to climate change and biodiversity crisis with nature-based solutions. One key is to understand and to include ecosystems in the architectural and urban design to protect wildlife. The recent and interdisciplinary field of urban ecology studies the relationship between urbanisation and ecological processes, such as the impact of cities on living organisms. The workshop aims at introducing fundamental concepts of ecology, to build cross-disciplinary knowledge, and to explore the representation of ecosystems. Architecture is developed through its representations. Ecosystems are defined by a biological community of organisms, their physical environment, and their interactions. How can we represent ecosystems from an architectural perspective? How can we represent the dynamics of relations?