Lexicon

Abject
Accretion
Actant
Aeration
Aerobic
Algae-boosted
Animal
Anthropomorphism
Anti-Continuous Construction
Apocalypse
Aquaculture
Aquanaut
Ark
Artificial Intelligence
Autopoiesis
Assemblages
Asymmetry
Atrophy
Attraction
Autarchy
Automata
Automation
Autosymbiosis
Bambassador
Bathyscaphe
Bioconurbation
Biomedia
Bionics
Biosphere
Biotechnique
By-product
Capacity
Actant
Coisolation
Composting
Conservative Surgery
Consumer Envelope
Consumption
Continuous Construction
Conurbation
Correalism
Cultural_Memory
Cybernetics
Cybertecture
Cyborg
Dispositif
Diving Saucer
Dross
Earthship
Ecocatastrophe
Effluvium
Egosphere
End-use
Entanglement
Eutopia
Feedback
Foam
Folk
Gadget
Garbage House
Green Cyborg
Heuristic
Hoard
Holism
Homogenization of Desire
Hostile
Human Affect
Hybridized Folk
Hydroponic
Hyper-Materialism
Information Economy
Inner Space
Interama
Intra-Uterine
Maque
Megalopolis
Min-use
Mobility
Monorail
Multi-Hinge
Non-Design
Oceanaut
Oppositional Consciousness
Organic
Ouroboros
Panarchy
Parasite
Perceived Continuation
Permanence
Place
Prototype
Post-Animal
Reclamation
RI: Data Farms
RI: Garbage and Animals
RI:Shipbreaking
RI: Toxic Sublime
Sampling
Scale
Sensing Structure
Simulacrum
Simulation
Soft Energy
Spaceship Earth
Submersible
Superwindow
Symbiosis
Synthetic Environment
Technocratic
Technological Heredity
Technological Sublime
Telechirics
The Sublime
Thermal Panel
Actant
Thing-Power
Thinking Machines
Tool
Toxic Withdrawal
Turbulence
UV-Transparent Film
Vibrant Matter
Waste
Work

BIONICS

Bionics shares a similar military founding as many of the terms and concepts used in modern Ecology. Bionics as a concept dates back to 1958 by Major J.E. Steele. The coined term was referencing a research program at the Wight Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Bionics, "a life like system that copies some functions and characteristics of a natural system." 1, soon evolved in both Society and Ecology.

In the 1970s, as the space race inspired society along with its associated technologies, Bionics in this context moved away from its founding definition and was now understood as the merging of Biology and Electronics. Such agents for this transformation were books and television series inspired from Martin Caidin's Cyborg (1973). "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman" redefined Bionics as a direct cybernetic system between body (biology) and electronics, literal prosthetics.

Bionic Systems in Ecology, while certainly inspired by the popular social definition of bionics, see Green Cyborg, followed more closely to Major J.E Steele's definition. A notable example is Kenneth Yeang and his ecological approach to architecture through bionics. Yeang follows in the ecological idea of designing for the 'optimum survival' for humans; stemming from the 20th century outlook regarding industrialism. Yeang equates the space craft as a successful example of bionics, "copying the circulation of matter and energy in nature within a closed artificial ecosystem." 1 Further 'enclosed' theory would continue to merge concepts of bionics and ecology to develop projects like Biosphere.

Citations
1Steele, J. E. (1960). "How do we get there," in Bionics Symposium: Living Prototypes – The Key to New Technology,, ed. C. H. Gray (New York, NY: Routledge), 55–60. [WADD Technical Report 60-600, Wright Air Development Division, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, 488–489, Reprinted in The Cyborg Handbook].
2Anker, Peder. (2005). "The Closed World of Ecological Architecture," in The Journal of Architecture 10:5, 542