IoA Institute of Architecture

November 20, 2009

In an age of unprecedented interaction between the natural and the
artificial realms we are confronted with the necessity to develop
instruments of transformation equipped with an embedded capacity of constant adaptation and self evaluation. As nature is becoming more and more hybridized with embedded artificiality, the ethical paradigm of natural conservation is progressively losing its value and needs to be replaced with more adaptive mechanisms of management and direct evaluation of the effects of human transformation of natural ecosystems; we call this mechanism ecoMachines.

ecoMachines provide a material and operational framework to deal with change and transformation, the two main defining qualities of our new understanding of urban ecology; moreover they support interaction between heterogeneous systems, such as social, infrastructural, architectural and environmental ones; they allow us to sense, register and manipulate in our daily life the unfolding processes defining our cities, our houses and our artificial environments.
ecoMachines turns us all into ecologists in the most operational sense of the term.

Claudia Pasquero graduated from Turin Polytechnic in 2000. Claudia is co-founder of ecoLogicStudio (www.ecoLogicStudio.com) with which she has recently completed a public library in Cirie' (Turin). She took part to the London and Venice Architectural Biennale in 2006 with an installation called STEM and is co-direcotr of Fibrous Structures Project. Claudia has been teaching and lecturing internationally including East London University, Turin Polytechnic, The Kingston University (London), UDLA (Puebla, Mexico City), IAAC (Barcelona), ITU (Istanbul), Bilgi University (Istanbul) and others; she is currently Unit Master of Inter10 at the Architectural Association School of Architecture London.