Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment: Design Between Nature and Technology [Paperback]

Introduction: The Upscaling of the Cybernetic Imagination??Part 1: The New Machine in the New Garden? 1.?A Transformation Formula? 2.?The Technology-Nature Edge: From Pastoralism to Anthropocene? 3.?The Human-Technology Edge: From Ready-made Artefacts to Dematerialized Humans? 4.?The Human-Nature Edge: The Three Waves of Nature Study? 5. Posthumanism, Co-Production, and Assemblage??Part 2: Posthumanism, the Environment and Intelligent Machines??6.?Searching for Nonhuman Agency? 7. From Nonhuman Agency to Speculative Ontology? 8. Coproductive Intelligence??Part 3: The Cybernetic Environment??9.?Cybernetics and Landscape: From Uncertainty to Opportunity? 10. Reframing Cybernetics? 11. Sensing as Coding: The Episteme of the Digital Age? 12. The Rise of Intelligent Agents: A Non-Model-Centric Paradigm? 13. Actuating Leads to Attuning: Cultivated Wildness? 14. Cultivated Wildness and Speculative Ecology? Conclusion: Design and Cybernetic Environment

Grounded in contemporary landscape architecture theory and practice, this book?blends examples from art, design, and engineering with concepts from cybernetics and posthumanism, offering a transdisciplinary examination of the ramifications of cybernetics on the constructed environment.?

Zihao Zhang is a designer, educator, and scholar in landscape architecture. He currently serves as an assistant professor and interim director of the landscape architecture program at the City College of New York.

Grounded in contemporary landscape architecture theory and practice, Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment blends examples from art, design, and engineering with concepts from cybernetics and posthumanism, offering a transdisciplinary examination of the ramifications of cybernetics on the constructed environment. Cybernetics, or the study of communicatlc"