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Biological Life: The Pedagogy of an Architectural Concept
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Loo, S, Biological Life: The Pedagogy of an Architectural Concept, Techniques and Technologies, Transfers and Transformations, 27-29 September 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp. 144-149. ISBN 978-0-9802840-4-1 (2007) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Abstract
This paper analyses the techniques and technologies mobilized under the imprimatur of
biological life in architectural production beyond their manifestations as (bio)mimetic processes.
The arguments do not take 'life' as a priori to architectural thinking, but as immanent to each
enactment of technique or application of technology within the biological paradigm. Using the
work of Roger Caillois on pyschasthenia as the collapse of space between an organism and its
milieu, the analysis avoids elevating biological life to a transcendent concept. Biological life in
architecture instigates the pragmatic concern for whether a philosophical or scientific concept
works, or matters, regardless of whether it fits within an ontology or metaphysics. Thus,
architectural production using biological life subscribes to a Deleuzo-Guattarian "pedagogy of a
concept" - the creation of perceptual and affective habits that are self-jeopardising and highly
idiosyncratic to ensure further concept formation.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
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Keywords: | Biological life, pedagogy, biomimicry, Deleuze, Immanence, Caillois |
Research Division: | Built Environment and Design |
Research Group: | Architecture |
Research Field: | Architectural design |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in built environment and design |
UTAS Author: | Loo, S (Professor Stephen Loo) |
ID Code: | 61303 |
Year Published: | 2007 |
Deposited By: | Architecture |
Deposited On: | 2010-03-02 |
Last Modified: | 2012-03-20 |
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