Taxonomy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Taxonomy may refer to: Science[edit] In business and economics[edit] In education[edit] Bloom's taxonomy, a standardized categorization of learning objectives in an educational contextClassification of Instructional Programs, a taxonomy of academic disciplines at institutions of higher education in the United StatesSOLO Taxonomy, Structure of Observed Learning Outcome, proposed by Biggs and Collis Information and computer science[edit] ACM Computing Classification System, a subject classification system for computing devised by the Association for Computing MachineryXBRL Taxonomy, eXtensible Business Reporting LanguageSRK taxonomy, in workplace user-interface design Safety taxonomy[edit] Other[edit] See also[edit]

Synthetic Biology as an Open System for Architectural Design Synthetic biology can play an important role in the future of our cities, via economic benefits, functional benefits, and infusing our social spaces with enjoyable, emotional qualities. We’re living in an age of synthetic biology where we can design and engineer organisms using life’s building blocks such as, fats, proteins, minerals and genetic code. This is a relatively new practice in science and we’re still trying to figure out exactly what kinds of challenges life’s processes are best placed to address and how we can use these ‘technologies of life’ in everyday situations. My work looks at how synthetic biology can be used in the built environment to help our buildings be less like machines and more like natural systems. I set out to explore this question working as Nature does, taking a bottom up approach to growing an architectural experience using living building blocks. This essay is from the notes delivered at a TEDU talk

Lawless Sustainability—new technology & innovative solutions for a sustainable future The problem with sustainability is that it was designed by committee rather than springing from the loins of a mature design movement. It is a chimera that is retrofitted to suit industrial, technological and political parameters that are ‘branded’ as ‘’ecological’ using the principles of material conservation – where ‘sustainable’ buildings consume less energy, use fewer resources or emit ‘less’ carbon but are nevertheless based on industrial modes of production. So, we continue to tread a path of human development characterised by resource consumption – although we’re attempting to take the slow, rather than fast route, towards environmental poverty. Indeed, we’re so entrenched in a particular kind of industrial thinking that we’re missing the possible significance of architecture’s role in a much bigger environmental picture - namely, the opportunity to orchestrate the material exchanges that flow through our cities - using an ecological paradigm.

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