Eco-Machina: Landscape, Machines, Matter

Harvard GSD

They are at work all around us – how did they escape us? While we have extensively studied human-computer interactions and even machine-machine relationships, we have overlooked how machines relate to their environments. This seminar traces and theorizes a family of tools, eco-machines, deliberate constructs oriented toward and embedded within their surroundings. From ancient tools like water screws, wind towers, or ploughs to autonomous earthworking tools, construction robots, or cloud…