Simone Ferracina

Responding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inception re-thinks potentiality—an object’s ability to change—in architecture and design. The book problematizes the still-prevailing modern paradigm of design practice: the technical tabula rasa, a tendency to begin from scratch and use raw, amorphous, and obedient materials that can be easily and effectively...

Responding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission, and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inception re-thinks potentiality—an object's ability to change—in architecture and design. The book problematises the still-prevailing modern paradigm of design practice: the technical tabula rasa, a tendency to begin from scratch and use raw, amorphous, and obedient materials that can be easily and effectively...