Fall 2019
Instructors: Evan Jones and Margaret Ikeda
Constructed Ecologies investigates the design and deployment of habitats to benefit marine animals. Currently, these hard surfaces are not optimized for marine animal communities; they are engineered to protect human communities. We rethought this hierarchy by integrating coastal infrastructure and marine life in a way that taught us about the interconnectedness of systems that ultimately benefit both the city and its inhabitants. To investigate these solutions we continued to engage collaboratively with ecologists, other schools and digital design fabrication specialists. We will also expanded our area of research to focus on ecologically safe materials for ocean application and the integration of sensors to record, inform and represent ecological phenomena. For the second year in a row, this seminar developed one project for entry in the BioDesign Challenge.
Constructed Ecologies seminar, Fall 2019:
Alhakam Alaedh
Celdin Fajardo
Yitian Ma
Lili Mao
Marc Northstar
Keehyun Ryu
Daniel Ramirez
Sharan Shivkumar Saboji
Joshua Van Heidrich
