RELATED TERMS: World-building The name of the architectural practice, Terreform, was derived from the combination of “terre”, meaning earth or soil, and “reform”, meaning to rebuild, reconstruct or recreate. The founders sought to differentiate their practice from that of “terraforming”. In planetary engineering, terraforming is a process of transforming an alien atmosphere to create a habitableContinue reading “Terraforming”
Category Archives: Design and Governance
Heterarchy
RELATED TERMS: Actantiality; Affordances; Tangled Hierarchy and Strange Loop; Within the understanding that socio-genesis and techno-genesis are inherently interwoven, each as an original supplement of the other, designs can be said to form strange loops: tangled hierarchies that articulate a heterarchy of values. In part, they do so through the deictic framings and cross-referencing which theyContinue reading “Heterarchy”
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