Environmental Design Systems

Environmental Design Systems are the attempt to integrate aesthetic design based upon earthbound principles with ecologically sound functionality of systems in the adaptation not just of human beings and groups, but of many different kinds of life within a shared framework. These systems are an extension of designs and principles achieved in human habitation systems into the natural world at increasing degrees of distance and involvement of human activity.

Just as we adopt different modalities of human habitation with an eye towards environmental conservation and ecological preservation, we must adapt our notions of habitation design systems to the larger context of environmental systems that involve the habitation and habitat of a large number of other species.

In this regard we should not see the problems and general issue of human habitation as something fundamentally separate from the challenges of understanding or design alternative habitation for other kinds of life forms that share a common habitat. Human culture, in general or in whatever specific form it may take, is human eco-culture first and foremost, and the issues this presents, however carpentered and constructed our environments become, cannot be sidestepped or avoided in our final design solutions.

Our interest in Environmental Design Systems comes to rest upon several key problem sets:

1. Development of a system of zoning of natural and human habitats in a way that best supports the interests of both human and non-human biotic communities.

2. Development of networks and means facilitating the exchange of population and natural transfer of genes between habitats.

3. Development of effective mediation and monitoring systems that control dynamically the relationships between human beings and other life forms.

4. Development of aesthetically interesting and pleasing systems that are also functionally adaptive.