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BESSERUD, Keith; SARKISIAN, Mark; ENQUIST, Phil; HARTMAN, Craig (2013): Scales of metabolic flows. Regional, Urban and Building Systems Design at SOM, Architectural Design, London 87 (…) This biological process coordinating interactions between all the physiological systems of the body via the reading, processing and transformation of chemical molecules is what is commonly referred to as ‘Metabolism’. Metabolic systems are essentially information-processing systems, regulating the flows of biological information and instructions. Pharmaceutical scientists are also very interested in metabolic processes. The drugs they develop are doses of molecular chemical information that get absorbed into the body’s metabolic flows. Ideally, the drugs are designed to address very specific cells and to communicate very specific instructions (…) Within this framework there are two related but discrete modes: diagnosis and intervention. Procedures like blood tests provide important diagnosti...

BERNTSEN, Duncan (2013): Pastoral manouvres. Ecologies of city, nature & practice; Architectural Design, London 135 (…) The opportunities and profits that planted open public spaces offer investors are actually the 21 st century’s green ‘elephant in the room’; it cannot be seen due to its vast and intangible nature and hence remains unarticulated. 136 Developments in industry and business have generally taught us the importance of the continuous improvement at the heart of conventional industrial processes, education, architecture and research. It is holism, however, that favours creativity and adaptability. 137 Ecologies of everyday practice The ecology of the city, architecture and the approach to green and public space can, and needs to, be richly layered and highly original to satisfy the intangible returns upon private investment being sought today (…) it needs a framework of research and practice within which a growing body of evidence, tools, methods and...

ALING, Mike (2013): Digital Cottage Industries, Architectural Design 3 A global renaissance in cottage industries is currently underway, fuelled by a wide spectrum of digital communications –from Smart phones to the Internet and, increasingly, the technologies of virtuality (…) A growing number of products –digital or otherwise- floating on the pervasive cybermarket are being developed and distributed form the home. (…) Up until the digital age, cottage industries were located on sites disconnected from industrial and urban centres. Today, however, following William Gibson’s recent identification of the ‘ageographical and largely unrecognized meta city that is the Internet’, it is increasingly difficult to identify spaces that are outside of the urban process. With the city/country antinomy ever blurring (a dialectic that the city has come to dominate), the Digital Cottage Industries project concentrates on the rural side of the blur as a site for small-scale cottage-industr...