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9.2
Low-Tech High-Impact Novelty in the Built Environment
As the act of envisioning future environments, design inherently involves innovation (Munigala et al. Citation2018;...
Low-Tech High-Impact Novelty in the Built Environment
9.2
The Act of Innovating and Ingenuity of Innovation: Rethinking Creative Approaches to Building Sustainable Environments
Innovation has been discussed in various contexts, with scholars describing it as both the act of inventing ideas...
The Act of Innovating and Ingenuity of Innovation: Rethinking Creative Approaches to Building Sustainable Environments
9.2
A Nexus of Ties and Networks of Transfiguration
While invention may remain in some circles the purview of the lone genius, innovation is undeniably social, political,...
A Nexus of Ties and Networks of Transfiguration
9.1
The Age of Autonomous Reproduction
It has been nearly a century since the publication of Walter Benjamin’s influential work The Work of Art in the...
The Age of Autonomous Reproduction
9.1
Ideal and Imperfect Generators
I’ll begin by paraphrasing a classical Greek metaphysical challenge: “What generates the generator?”1 The...
Ideal and Imperfect Generators
8.2
Translations from Coding to Reality 
Starting in the middle, maybe with the movie The Matrix (1999), coding became an everyday thought problem. The...
Translations from Coding to Reality 
8.2
Variegated Coding 
In her chapter section titled “Controlling Code,” media and communication scholar Wendy Chun offers a pithy...
Variegated Coding 
8.1
Climate: The Path Forward
Climate change is one of the most critical and complex challenges facing communities worldwide. Recent reports...
Climate: The Path Forward
8.1
Climate: From Critical Technologies to Active Agencies
Building technologies that approach climate issues are never objective, neutral, or isolated. Like most technological...
Climate: From Critical Technologies to Active Agencies
8.1
Climate Changes
Climate binds us. Our macroenvironment is now a legal and social contract in the form of the Paris Agreement, also...
Climate Changes