Realizing Emergent Ecologies: Nature-Based Solutions from Design to Implementation

Engineering Emergent Ecologies of Interacting Artefacts

Nowadays, our living environments already provide ubiquitous network connectivity and are populated by an increasing number of artefacts (objects enhanced with sensing, computation, and networking abilities). In addition, people are increasingly using mobile devices as intermediaries between themselves and the artefacts. In order to create, manage, communicate with, and reason about ubiquitous ...

The Psychological Impacts of Interacting with Nature-Based Design

Our modern society is filled with stressful stimuli that impact our daily lives, and lead to problems that eventually threaten our mental and psychological wellbeing. Expanding urban life and urbanizing people's interactions have drastically increased and resulted in more stressful circumstances. Unfortunately, the role of nature and nature-based design in our urban societies as an alternative ...

Protein conformational switches: from nature to design.

Protein conformational switches alter their shape upon receiving an input signal, such as ligand binding, chemical modification, or change in environment. The apparent simplicity of this transformation--which can be carried out by a molecule as small as a thousand atoms or so--belies its critical importance to the life of the cell as well as its capacity for engineering by humans. In the realm ...

Postindustrial Ecologies: Industrial Rubble, Nature and the Limits of Representation

Ex-industrial areas, which occupy about 15 per cent of Bucharest’ssurface, have generated emergent ecologies during the post-socialist period. Theopen-ended, eclectic and hard-to-define nature of such sites resists the commoninterpretations in terms of (industrial) heritage, nature, creative industries or speculative real estate development. Consequently, such postindustrial ecologi...

Design and Implementation of WDM-PON Solutions