Designing the Urban Microbiome | The Landscape Institute

ecoLogicStudio’s biodigital architectures promote a new urban aesthetic centred on a novel appreciation for the microscale of bacteria.

by Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto
published in Journal of Landscape Architecture UK, commissioned by Paul Lincoln, Issue3 2020, p. 51-53

Dark Ecology. The current rush of many cities to develop blue-green plans dealing with future threats of climate change is a testament to the obsession of searching for ‘true’ answers within a problem-solving framework. The experience in practice illustrated in this article highlights the urgent need for a new design method capable of engaging the systemic nature of urban landscapes and their architecture.