Category Archives: Meta-Theory

A meta-theory is a theory whose subject matter is some theory (of the world or methods for accessing the world). All fields of research share some meta-theory, regardless whether this is explicit or correct. Statements made in the meta-theory about the theory are called metatheorems.

BioUrban Acupuncture Kharkiv: Architecture as Healing Interface

In collaboration with O.M. Beketov National University or Urban Economy and through the work of Ruin Academy, biourbansists Marco Casagrande (architect) and Menno Cramer (neuroscientist) are addressing a biologically-attuned, socially-grounded model of post-crisis urban regeneration. They blend biourbanism, and constructivist biology into a method for healing cities from within. Both Marco and Menno have been […] read more

1067 PacificPeople—the Sociality of Weeds

Interview with Andrea Haenggi by Sara Bissen I walked into the Scenic Superficial Garage Resort at 1067 Pacific Street in Brooklyn on a hot, dusty day in early September 2013. The place was a raw urban prairie with a garage at the far end. Looking around, I noticed a tent next to a rusted corrugated […] read more

Biological Humanism as the Framework for a New Culture

This is an excerpt from a book originally published 30 years ago by Dieter Duhm, initiator of the Tamera community in Portugal. THE CONCEPT OF BIOLOGICAL HUMANISM, Dieter Duhm: “Throughout history attempts to improve the world with morality and religion and to conquer man’s savagery by appeals to reason and conscience have failed. Men are […] read more

Guatemala is Stillness

by Sara Bissen [ x ] Istanbul feels like metal, but tastes like tear gas. In the city itself, I find it safe to say there’s more gas in the air today than there was during the 2013 Gezi protests. We may not see the manifestation in its most obvious form, but we can rest […] read more

Appreciation of Unseen Existing Spaces

A Theoretical issue for Urban and Architectural Design by Tatjana Capuder Vidmar Abstract “We must now discover how to do more with less, how to successfully design with nature, and how to ecologically design our communities. . .” (1) This article, with its insight into the history of Western European spatial development, will attempt to demonstrate […] read more

Steady Tendency and Progress in the Study of Natural and Technological Phenomena (Biology of Form, Linguistics, Urbanism)

The idea of a very effective scientific network, based upon “biophilic” architecture principles (peer-to-peer, self-organized, scaled, self-similar, and “small-world”-like network) is offered here. The network should be Russian both in language and scientific tradition, offering a paradigm for a new, hyper-connected vision of world science, based on a multi-centric epistemology. read more