The Ill-Defined Niche

摘要

Architecture - one that coerces the participant to focus on the shifting relationship between building and environment as the obstacle to their failure. Design Ecologies 2.1: the ill-defined niche will be focusing on 'doubt' and the 'value' of designing. As you will know there are many burgeoning practices that go beyond the making and designing of the object, towards an experience of architecture with the environment. This issue of Design Ecologies aims to shift and decentralize the designing part and focus on a more specific idea of the design in the environment - creating a sort of ill-defined niche for burgeoning practices. Practice that goes beyond shaping geometry, to shaping the internal structure of material - making materials within materials, and embedding and weaving multiple materials into complex projects. All the works presented in this issue have an understanding that form cannot be fully explained in terms of their material constituents and the energy within them. The form seems to be something over and above the material components that make it up, but at the same time it can be expressed only through the organization of matter and energy.