{"title":"Marco Poletto","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarco Poletto's work explores the intersection of creativity, technology, and design, offering thought-provoking insights into contemporary arts and culture. His titles delve into innovative approaches such as biodesign and systemic architecture, inviting readers to reconsider the relationship between living systems and built environments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on forward-thinking concepts, Poletto’s books are ideal for those interested in the evolving dialogue between artificial intelligence and artistic expression. 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It sets out to explore two main goals: to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to share a toolbox of informational design protocols developed to describe the city as a territory of self-organization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCollecting together nearly a decade of design experiments by the authors and their practice, ecoLogicStudio, the book is organized into three design domains: environments, machines and behavioural spaces. The conversation touches disciplinary definitions, often perceived as oppositions, such as sustainable development versus ecologic urbanisation, algorithmic [process driven] versus critical [narrative driven] architecture, bottom-up tactical versus top-down strategic design, space as patterns of use versus behavioural space, low-tech materiality versus high-tech design, the boundary of the natural and the artificial realms within the city and architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA new kind of emergent \"real-time world-city\" is presented in the book in the form of an operational design manual for the assemblage of proto-architectures, the incubation of proto-gardens and the coding of proto-interfaces. 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