10 | Module Ten | Arch 8561 | 2022

THEORY + PRACTICE WORKSHOP
Pöiétics – Story, Form, Function + Beauty

Google Earth aerial image of your project site and extended boundary, including off-site expanded food production.

Introduction to this Weeks Workshop | Purpose + Description

This is a Planning and Design Module for advancing your project outcomes and is based on the project needs and development during Module ones through nine. Advance your project and be prepared to share you work with the instructor for review during class.


Workshop Activities: Reflections + Exercises

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THEORY

Practice Templates Only

Brief Reflection Only


Template: Pöiètics

Glossary of Special Terms
pöiètic: making, producing, forming

Ecopöiètic (this word has been developed for Living Design): The act or process of creation that positively synergizes with biological, ecological, socio-ecological, and eco-economical life. Example: “The team took an ecopöiètic approach to planning the project.”

The outcome or characterisitics from the act or process of creation that positively emulates  biological, ecological, socio-ecological, and eco-economical life. Example: “The ecopöiètic outcomes of this project are numerous.”

Pöiēsis: the activity in which a person brings something into being that did not exist before.

Yonpöiēsis (this word has been developed for Living Design): The outcomes of intentional synthesis bringing something into being that is beyond or ‘other than’ the collection of elements comprising the synthesis.


Pöiètics is a deep concept with multiple attributes and practice technics – here are two:

Simplifying Complexity through the lens of ecology:


Rapid Prototyping (Previously Presented)

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