Transformation Typologies – 1 Reassembling Architecture in the Anthropocene
Edited by Lidia Gasperoni and Rainer Hehl / FG Baukonstruktion und Entwerfen
What are the media, methods and strategies that will enable us to cope with future realities in the Anthropocene? What are the epistemological frameworks and archived knowledges upon which we can build future environmental views and narratives? What would be an architectural language that allows us to assemble existing environments in productive arrangements? How far do we have to explore and renegotiate the known in order to be prepared for unknown futures?
Transformation Typologies explores how the historic development of architectural types can serve for current and future transformation of spatial production. Typology, as a systematized method for knowledge production, is an operative practice to unravel complexities and entanglements, but also a medium to design possible realities in the future. What if typological systems are not considered as a prescriptive code that instructs us how to design new worlds but rather as an epistemological device that changes our perspectives and our subjective relationships towards the natural and built environment?
