Proseminar in ECOLOGIES: Systems, Materials, Tools

Harvard GSD

Coined in 1866 by biologist Ernst Haeckel, “ecology” has expanded beyond a scientific field into a framework for understanding how living and nonliving systems interact, interrelate, and co constitute one another. This proseminar uses ecology to give MDes Ecologies students a shared foundation for thinking about design while articulating the emerging field of ecologies in design and its research methods.We ask what “Ecologies in Design” means in practice: designing in ecologies, as ecologies,…