Pattern recognition of living systems in mapping, master planning and ecology informs Good Materials and climate based architecture, with Kathryn Langstaff
The Nature of Order Webinar, April 23, 2006
Kathryn will discuss the principles of ecological design, wholeness and her design process, including Good materials (pattern 207), and generative processes in place-making from architectural details to a bioregional pattern language and her recent attempt to write a pattern language for a biodiversity master plan. Discussion includes generating wholeness and living structure through the 10,000 steps & iterative and adaptive design processes and emergence.
Earthen plaster tokonoma laundry chute, Fruehauf House & Hai Shan Clinic, 2004
“For if each living center is but a reflection of a single unity, has the same origin in its being, then the whole, the living work is animated by this same being behind the scenes - and we experience the same living fire in every part of the whole.” NoO, p. 245 The Goal of Tears
Kathryn Langstaff, Sonoma Coast, seaweed harvest
Kathryn Langstaff is an ecological designer. She co-founded Autopoiesis, LLC thirty years ago. Kathryn has been working at the intersection of culture, ecology, wellness and transformation. Complexity literacy and design thinking are at the heart of her work and teaching. See www.autopoiesis.life/design-thinking.html.
Currently, she is designing with bioregional materials that sequester carbon and support living systems. The act of making is deeply spiritual and when practiced in harmony is reciprocal with life itself.
Working and teaching with Christopher Alexander has been a life-changing opportunity to find truth, beauty and wholeness in her life, in each other and in the world around her. “I value my colleagues and students, all of whom inspire and teach me.”
To participate in this Nature of Order Webinar session, write to natureoforder@buildingbeauty.org.
To view the recording after this session, visit www.buildingbeauty.org/nature-of-order-lecture-series.