Editorial Introduction – Sustainable, Smart and Systemic Design Post-Anthropocene: Through a Transdisciplinary Lens
Marie Davidová, Susu Nousala, Thomas J. Marlowe
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Marie Davidová
Cluster of Excellence IntCDC, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Susu Nousala
Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania / Creative Systemic Research Platform Institute, Ticino, Switzerland / University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Thomas J. Marlowe
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, United States
Cite this paper as:Davidová, M., Nousala, S., Marlowe, T. J. (2022). Editorial Introduction – Sustainable, Smart and Systemic Design Post-Anthropocene: Through a Transdisciplinary Lens.
Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 20(7), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.54808/JSCI.20.07.1
Online ISSN (Journal): 1690-4524
Abstract
Sustainability as related to the environment is now just over 50 years old. In that time, especially in regard to human artifacts such as architecture, it has largely focused on human priorities, and how they need to be modified to address or rectify environmental and ecological challenges. A new, post-anthropocene view suggests that it is also important to consider the environment as more than a backdrop whose state and appearance must be maintained, but rather as an actor in its own right, with its own interests, including the interests of the living non-human actors in the local ecology. This special issue seeks to explore this wider notion, and the editors view our introduction as an opportunity to present the journal theme, to introduce the authors and place its papers in context, and to welcome researchers and practitioners to explore this topic further.
