The Socio-Temporary in Architecture: Territories of Second-Order Cybernetics

WORLDMAKING AND THE EXPERIMENTAL IN ARCHITECTURE In architecture's recent history, experimenta-tions witnessing the involvement of current transdisciplinary praxis of cybernetics and biotechnology have contributed a great deal to the worldmaking of new design imperatives of semi-natural systems and theoretical discourse in the field. The article explores interim stages of such experimentations theoretically and practically derived from biology and cybernetics, based on the writings of philosophers, scientists and architectural critics such as Nelson Good-man, Francisco Varela and Sanford Kwinter. The change and development in the media of representation in architecture under the influence of transdisciplinarity accounts for the emergence of various forms of past, present and future design tools, presentation techniques and drawings as well as the experience of architecture as a whole, and this has also been the motivation of this article. Both representation and individual as well as collective experiences of the emerging architectures have a direct impact on the development of the tools of design, generation, and generativity of worldmaking in the field. This is due to the influence of the tech-nological/digital and biological advancements of the current age (Cook, 2008, pp. 177-178). In ABSTRACT The BLOCKINtemporary BLOCKINin BLOCKINarchitecture BLOCKINis BLOCKINa BLOCKINstate BLOCKINof BLOCKINterritorial BLOCKINinstability BLOCKINthat BLOCKINemerges BLOCKINout BLOCKINof BLOCKINinteractions BLOCKINbetween transdisciplinary BLOCKINnarratives BLOCKINand BLOCKINarchitectural BLOCKINtheory BLOCKINand BLOCKINits BLOCKINpractice.in BLOCKINarchitecture.