Manchester
School of Art
MA Show
2013
Fri 27 September —
Sun 13 October
10.00—16.00hrs
An exhibition of work
by postgraduate
students of —
- Architecture & Urbanism
- Art As Environment
- Design
- Design & Art Direction
- Filmmaking
- Fine Art
- Landscape Architecture
- Media Arts
- Photography
- Textiles
- Three Dimensional Design
- Visual Culture
Dominic Chouler
Developing an understanding of Landscape Architecture has emphasised to me the complex nature of our experiences and wellbeing and how they are so intrinsically governed by our surroundings.
The focus of my MA work was to find sensitive and innovative design solutions that would facilitate a confluence of anthropocentric and biocentric needs; the theories used to underpin these objectives were Interdependency and Polycentricity.
Interdependency as a design approach was informed by the study of ecological systems: coexistence, homeostasis and autopoiesis and similar modes of operation that create closed loop systems were used as principal goals in the translation to a design strategy. By using these theories it was possible to formulate a flexible design strategy, one that offered solutions to unbounded challenges such a pollution and climate change, but would also operate across a range of scales and socioeconomic mechanisms, locally and globally.
Using Barrow In Furness as a pilot location for exploration Interdependency is established through the integration of an Ecological Carpet, a mechanism for developing new relationships between anthropocentric and biocentric systems. The Ecological carpet instigates a synergism between ecological and manmade systems by creating plug in points, which anthropocentric components may fuse with.
