LIVING TOGETHER: MORE-THAN-HUMAN ECOLOGIES FOR ARCHITECTURAL THINKING

What does it mean for architecture to be a truly collaborative venture where plants and other species also exercise their agency? This book is an inquiry into an architecture which allows multispecies alliances to take place. It brings materialist and ecological inquiries to architectural design, practice, and thinking; acknowledging a necessity to go beyond established architectural ideals of progress, monumentality, longevity, and permanence. This would mean to make architecture receptive – physically, premised on creating spaces for accommodating multispecies; and intellectually, premised on becoming aware of the needs of more-than-humans. Design-based approaches whether technocratic or demonstrating a theoretical standpoint are fragmented today and demand a holistic approach. Better Together positions itself in that fragmentation.