Marie Davidova

University of Stuttgart · IntCDC

This article integrates a series of diverse projects that together exemplify and interpret the Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance (SAAP) that has been developed by the author. SAAP is a fusion of several process-based fields and their media and agency, namely: a) Systems oriented design; b) Performance oriented architecture; 3) Prototyp...

This article argues that whilst our recent economic models are dependent on the overall ecosystem, they do not reflect this fact. As a result of this, we are facing Anthropocene mass extinction. The paper presents a collaborative regenerative region (COLreg) co-creation and tokenisation, involving multiple human and non-human, living and non-living...

The article explores how the quality of life within a deprived urban environment might be improved through the ‘gamification’ of and interaction with, more-than-human elements within the environment. It argues that such quality may be achieved through the community’s multicentered value from the bottom up. This is shown through the case study of th...

The paper focuses on several systemic research-by-design case studies relating ecological, technological and social systems with a more-than-human perspective. The complexity of the real requires methods that leverage digital tools and processes proposed to enable the design of more ecological, dynamic, interrelated posthuman environments. We argue...

The Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance (SAAP) looks at an ecosystem as a more-than-human community and searches for its synergy. It integrates Systems Oriented Design (SOD) and its tool gigamapping methodology for multi-stakeholders and multidisciplinary cocreation amongst humans, a ‘real-life codesign laboratory’ with more-than-human s...

Existing literature predominantly focuses on the technical prospects of blockchain, particularly the possibility of digital economies built from the bottom up and self-governing. However, pressing concerns remain about the sustainability of blockchain applications. Thus, a decolonised, (meaning self-governance) critical transdisciplinary and system...

The dataset presents two files: A game design introduction and the gigamap that led to its design. The design introduction has led to the implementation of the game on the following Website. The game is to engage the urban citizens to support their local biodiversity by making DIY recipes or sharing photos of how they support it. The gigamap is a p...

The dataset presents the Multi-Scale More-than-Human Atlas Gigamapping Workshop output that should evaluate and suggest new developments of COLife project prototyping. We also gathered the ecological check data and planted new species with gardening and seedbombs. This was all elaborated in the workshop and speculated on within the 'Enacting Bateso...

The dataset covers codesign gigamapping data and the 3d parametric models from Rhino 3d of a set of responsive wood insect hotels with pollinator's gardens from the year 2022/23. The first set of gigamaps are for the first intervention POL-AI1, the second for its iteration POL-AI2 within the 'Enacting Bateson Ecological Aesthetics in Architecture a...

BioDiveIn is one of several interventions developed by collaborative efforts. These are testing the transition towards Post-Anthropocene and ecological aesthetics. The intervention offers multiple species habitats, edible landscapes and water pools for bats, swifts, small-sized birds, squirrels, insects and plants. The intervention (touch point) is...

The presented gigamaps were cocreated within the two-studio course-"COLife: More-than-Human Perspective to CoDesign," I and II-held winter and spring, respectively, in 2022 and 23. The first semester maps the development of a prototypical urban intervention, BioDiveIn. The second semester was the codesign of an urban game, GoCOLife, around BioDiveI...

By using Systems Oriented Design, designers can learn how to better deal with very complex issues. The approach offers a designerly way of dealing with systems towards social and environmental sustainability. It also addresses ethical concerns in practice by considering multiple perspectives in co-design processes.

The research's main objective is to explore and encourage modes of architectural practice that can foster multispecies co-living to reduce biodiversity loss and increase the quality of life for both human and nonhuman inhabitants of architecture. This is achieved through conceptual discussions , comprehensive architectural case studies and work-bas...

The Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance (SAAP) looks at an ecosystem as a more-than-human community and searches for its synergy. It integrates Systems Oriented Design (SOD) and its tool gigamapping methodology for multi-stakeholders and multidisciplinary cocreation amongst humans, a ‘real-life codesign laboratory’ with more-than-human s...

While many studies were done about green facades’ thermal performance, limited studies were done about green facades for productive farming. Most focused only on one facade or building. According to that, this research questioned what the potentials of farming on facades and roofs in an entire neighbourhood are and what could such a farming system...

By studying Aboriginal maps, this speculative research discusses world heritage concepts about land and merges them into western urban contexts. Assumptions concerning spatial allocation and demarcation such as boundaries, divisions and geometric patterns are being contested by ideas pertaining to Indigenous narratives expressing holistic views abo...

Sustainability as related to the environment is now just over 50 years old. In that time, especially in regard to human artifacts such as architecture, it has largely focused on human priorities, and how they need to be modified to address or rectify environmental and ecological challenges. A new, post-anthropocene view suggests that it is also imp...

Rapid urbanization has led some Chinese cities to extend to hillside sites with recurrent patterns of flattening sloping terrain to erect high rise buildings. This approach usually results in disturbing local ecosystems which protection is an important requirement towards achieving the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Studies examining the sp...

The work-in-progress project relates ecosystems with socio-technological systems (STS) in urban environments. It focuses on the development of more-than-human cities of the post-Anthropocene. Through a prototypical urban intervention POL-AI built from responsive wood, we aim to support more-than-human edible and habitable landscapes on existing bui...

This work-in-progress paper is referring to the CO-DE|GT mobile application, that is being developed in Synergetic Landscapes unit of the Master of Architectural Design at the Welsh School of Architecture in collaboration with the School for Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University, UK, the School of Architecture and Planning Bhopal,...

The gigamap is was developed in Synergetic Landscapes unit of the Master of Architectural Design at the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University, UK. This gigamap is searching for a synergy across an urban ecosystem. It is relating different students designs of prototypes that are to support cross-species edible and habitable landscape. T...

This article seeks the qualitative synthesis of schools of thought from extreme climate regions that could support urban biodiversity and climate change adaptation through architectural design. It proposes that climate comfort and biodiversity are closely related. This article suggests a possible systemic urban metabolism within a built environment...

In order to understand present conditions and the complexities, a review of past thinking that links us to a range of future, emergent possibilities may be necessary. Financial, digital and social landscapes are seldom static and those with the responsibility of maintaining and striving for natural-socioeconomic equilibrium, have a never-ending tas...

This article reflects on my integral design studio teaching and inclusiveness in its design processes. This is exemplified in two different systemic design case studies focusing on social and environmental justice via the lens of empathy. The design studio and/or design practice tend to be fused in this article because my design studios have always...

This special issue of FormAkademisk comprises a selection of articles developed from presentations at the seventh Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD7) symposium, held at Politecnico di Torino, Turin, October 23-26, 2018 (Barbero, 2018). RSD7 saw the launch of the Systemic Design Association (SDA), a membership organisation for the expanding...

Článek otevírá diskusi o metabolismu měst a bioregionech, obyvatelné a jedlé krajině napříč rostlinnými a živočišnými druhy. Toto je ukázáno na relativně jednoduchém architektonickém elementu, dýchající stěně. Taková dýchající stěna ale může být hyperobjektivní a multiskalární. Práce referuje k historickým příkladům vztaženým k dnešním architektoni...

See the ERBAP launch here: https://youtu.be/p0QNjaNUO2Q We currently find ourselves in the midst of both a climate and biodiversity emergency, requiring changes to the way the University operates in order to deliver healthy functioning ecosystems capable of supporting climate and well-being goals for future generations. In compliance with Cardiff...

The gigamaps relating full-scale prototypes series in this article are synthesising a work developed within the framework of Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance (SAAP) research by design field. Gigamapping serves as a tool for complexity codesigning through relations mapping and has no strict recipe (Sevaldson, 2018b). It is project and...

The paper unfolds a work of Synergetic Landscapes unit of Master of Architectural Design at the Welsh School of Architecture. This collaborative design unit focuses on generating potentials for coperforming landscape of human and non-human, living and non-living, natural and artificial participants of Grangetown community, Cardiff, Wales, UK. The t...

The paper presents a practice-based systemic design project regenerating former gardening colony of Prague 22 district. Codesigned with local and transdisciplinary stakeholders, COLreg is integrating human and non-human communities, generating a bioregion for-and with-all. Our regions and economies are dependent on the overall ecosystem. However, r...

This paper focuses on how to generate urban bio-corridors within the framework of the Synergetic Landscapes Project. The project is set up to deal with the problematique of the relationship between human and urban wildlife in Grangetown, Cardiff, Wales, UK. The paper discusses the research on the context of the bio-corridor on a more general level....

The regenerative design proposes token circular economy where all existing from the former gardening colony except its fences is left on site and upcycled. This covers existing huts, greenhouses as well as vegetation. The locality will use purely rainwater for public and private showers, laundry and taps for animals and will provide composting toil...

This article introduces Gigamapping as a toolkit to help architects undertake analysis and design. Due to globalization, many architectural design companies have expanded into the international market. Gigamapping is a beneficial tool for analysis and design, since it can help designers to display the relationships that affect designs in-context, t...

The paper exemplifies possible traces of transition towards Post-Anthropocene that is envisioned as non-hierarchical system. It is taking Moton’s discussion on ‘hyperobjectivity’ further into multi-layered codesign performed in real time and real life across bio-digital agents, including humans. Though we might be recently experiencing drastic time...

The paper is exploring methodology within the work in progress research by design through teaching project called 'Synergetic Landscapes'. It discusses codesign and cocreation processes that are crossing the academia, NGOs and applied practice within so called 'real life codesign laboratory' (Davidová, Pánek, & Pánková, 2018). This laboratory perfo...

The paper exemplifies possible traces of transition towards Post-Anthropocene that is envisioned as non-hierachical system. It is taking Morton's discussion on 'hyperobjectivity' further into multi-layered codesign performed in real time and real life across bio-digital agents, including humans. Though our planet might be recently experiencing dras...

This paper aims to study the conflicts that arise from the ever-present need for housing and urban expansion, with a primary focus on creating an identity for these communities on the edge. It studies the shifting paradigm of the suburban community and proposes to reimagine the image of suburbia to balance out urban encroachment on rural landscapes...

The paper examines the architectural design methods for homeless youth's wellbeing in self-built housing assistance programs. As a global issue, homelessness is alleviated in many countries via housing provision policies. However, housing cannot help the homeless to reintegrate into society directly, although it is vital. This research by design in...

The paper discusses a concept for edible mushroom indoor cultivation through combining biology and technology. The research by design is based in a full scale prototyping which has been replicated in a number of situations Illustrated in three case studies, the paper will unfold concepts that might be critical to the future of our cities and region...

This special issue of FormAkademisk comprises a selection of articles developed from presentations at the seventh Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD7) symposium, held at Politecnico di Torino, Turin, 23th-26th October 2018 (Barbero, 2018). A second collection from RSD7 is also planned to be published in FormAkademisk during 2020, continuing...

The paper suggests a possible systemic interaction with built environment that is to lead towards its transition to Post-Anthropocene through cross-species co-living oriented governance. Today, governments across the world, such as Czechia, UK, Norway, Turkey, Canada or US are releasing strategies and programs for climate adaptations, discussing we...

This short paper is a summary of Mapping and Methodology session abstracts, presentations and discussions of the Relating Systems Thinking and Design 8 symposium (RSD8) held at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, organised by the Systemic Design Association (Systemic Design, 2018). The topic of the conference w...

The paper suggests a possible systemic interaction with built environment that is to lead towards its transition to Post-Anthropocene through cross-species co-living oriented governance. Today, governments across the world, such as Czechia, UK, Norway, Turkey, Canada or US are releasing strategies and programs for climate adaptations, discussing we...

The gigamap exemplifies and seeks for systemic relations and reflections of gathered documentation and data of breathing walls, envelopes and screens generating bio-climatic layers in built up environment from diverse study journeys that were co-designed through vernacular culture and the authors own research by design speculations. This Gigamappin...

The facade and roofing system ventilated in dry conditions and closed in wet weather is a wooden wall that responds to changes in the relative air humidity. The wooden wall consists of square plates of two triangular plates that are cut in a tangential section. The square plates are mirrored against each other and anchored in the frame.

The work fights for a shift from Anthropocene in urban environment through both, analogue and digital eco-systemic prototypical urban interventions, mixing biological as well as digital performances of post-digital landscape. It directly engages with the local human and non-human communities as well as it offers its online recipes and codes for DIY...

The paper discusses the critical difference of modernist approach of designing for-and increasing approaches of designing with-or across-, in this case with/across the overall ecosystem. The research aims to engage all possible agencies in urban environment for its shift from Anthropocene. Such attempts resulted in ratification of its own design fi...

Kapitola pojednává o procesu navrhování a výroby objektů pro výstavu Herzan: Stavitelský rod z Třebíče, kterou pořádá Národní památkový ústavu, Muzeum Vysočiny Ttřebíč a Městské kulturní středisko Třebíč. Architektonické řešení výstavy se nazývá COLridor II a bylo vypracováno Collaborative Collective, z.s. jako pokračování konceptu „jedlé krajiny“....

The research claims that traditions are not static. They develop and adapt based on the present situation. Due to the recent climate extremes coming to formally mild climate locations, their architectures can learn from traditional ones from more climate extreme locations. The present systemic design study on semi-interior, ‘non-discrete spaces’ (H...

The mission of the present trans-disciplinary community environmental project COLridor (Davidová, 2017b) is to generate a situation of eco-systemic co-living across local species’ and abiotic agency in an urban environment through their co-design. Located in the city centre of Prague, the case study bio-tope is a part of larger bio-corridor that ha...

Based on several research by design cases illustrations, the paper aims to conclude a mix of diverse media in reference to diverse generative agency in Systemic Approach to Architectural Performance design field. In this field, the design processes and design's performances in time are seen as the 'resulting design objects'. Therefore, the agency i...

The paper discusses co-design, development, production, application of TreeHugger (see Figure 1). The co-design among community and trans-disciplinary participants with different expertise required scope of media mix, switching between analogue, digital and back again. This involves different degrees of physical and digital `GIGA-Mapping' (Sevaldso...

GIGA-Maps are extensive systems maps that combine and relate large amounts of different kinds of data and data representations, to be used and related in a design process (Sevaldson 2013; Sevaldson 2011; Sevaldson 2015). This mapping has no recipe. It is project related and developed according to its particular needs and speculations. The GIGA-Map...

The paper and its presentation is to discuss a family house Spiraling Slope (sophia) that is co-designed, inhabited, tested and developed prototype by the second and third author of this submission, the clients. The eco-systemically performing house, literally twisted as a helix into the sloping terrain, gaining its thermal energy, is also covered...

Unlike preceding “autonomous house systems” sysloop is cross-layered and highly scalable concept of “allopoietic system”, a system that is autonomous though dependent on the exchange across its environment (Dekkers 2015). This is performed through three types of co-design: • co-designing of trans-disciplinary co-authors; • co-designing of environme...

Design už není o formě, ale o jejich performanci či interakci. Co-design, na rozdíl od participace, umožňuje aktivní navrhování účastníků oproti pouhému se vyjádření k navrženým řešením.

The mission of the present trans-disciplinary community project COLridor is to generate a situation of eco-systemic co-living across local species and abiotic agents in an urban environment through their co-design. Located in the city centre of Prague, the case study biotope is a part of larger bio-corridorthat has evolved namely thanks to the adja...

Performance Oriented Design (Hensel, 2015) in the means of architecture that reacts to its environment has strong background in traditional oriental architecture. In addition, the architecture that is adapted to the local environment is perceived as a necessity of our future. At the moment, strong weather extremes futures are expected in climatic a...

The old garden of log-house Zvonařka with adjacent Nusle Stairs is Prague’s nature like bio-tope with remarkable diversity and together with the adjacent railway, parks and gardens generates rare bio-corridor within the city centre. As it is located in one of the most expensive residential areas, the pressure on its building development is high. In...

The unclimatised spaces between interior and exterior, generating the onion principal of the building, securing to different extends visual, sound, light and climatic penetration, have its place in almost all traditional architectures, performing as its energy exchange with the surrounding environment. “Svalgangs and Skuts”, the semi-interior space...

The thematic GIGA-Map is relating macro and micro climatic relations of exterior and semi-interior spaces with geological position and world axis orientation, substrative and additive building within and with tuff stone. The dashed lines express intensity and periodicity of the occurrence of certain fields, while the marking dot suggest the abundan...

This paper discusses a wider range of agents in responsive wood performance problematique. This is done through an example of prototyped envelope Ray (see Figure 1) that circulates air in dry warm settings and encloses itself in humid and cold micro-climatic conditions (see Figure 2). The envelope is to be applied on semi-interior or unclimatised s...

First-hand experiences in several design projects that were based on media richness and collaboration are described in this article. Although complex design processes are merely considered as socio-technical systems, they are deeply involved with natural systems. My collaborative research in the field of performance-oriented design combines digital...

This exploratory paper discusses a primary study on Cappadocian caves’ bioclimatic performance, speculating on its application to today’s and future Performance Oriented Architecture (Hensel 2010; Hensel 2011; Hensel 2013). It is a rough initial pre-study to future broader research, claiming the need and relevance for in depth investigations. As to...

The paper discusses a result of transdisciplinary cooperation of architectural practice and association Collaborative Collective (Collaborative Collective 2016; Collaborative Collective 2012) structural and mechanical engineering practice Experis DSKM (Experis DSKM 2016; Experis DSKM 2012) and ecologist association CooLAND (CooLAND 2016a; CooLAND 2...

The present research considers wood as a study material for a wider question on architecture’s environmental interaction. It aims to explore its potential for eco-systemic performances and atmospheres as well as to broaden the discussion on this problem area by accessing the public space and professional practice calls. My project researches such i...

The paper puts into the context of practical applications my case study research of responsive wood located in Czechia, being inspired by Norwegian and oriental traditional architecture. Approaching the field from a socio‐environmental perspective, the article relates human, social and biotic behaviour with climatic and geographical data, addressin...