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

Holism

Smuts defined holism in his book Holism and Evolution in 1926 as the “tendency in nature to form wholes that are greater than the sum of the parts through creative evolution”.1 The term is applied to various fields to interpret diverse phenomenon and theories such as science, sociology, psychology and so on. Especially, the rapid growth of technology since the Industrial revolution in 19th century changed numerous state of living system and the notion explained the complete interdependence or interrelation of all components of system rather than linear cause-effect types of explanation of science. The project SEEK also could be explained by Holism rather than linear cause-effect type of explanation. The most important concept of SEEK was the interaction of a computer-automated robot and a live unpredictable input. The components of system are simply computer-operated robot, gerbil and cubes, but the whole system is extremely complex due to their random relationship. The computer could dynamically react to the changing environment as it was altered by the animals.2 This meant that the system was built as a recurring feedback loop where the final outcome could never quite be predicted because of the random inputs. This concept can explain the complex relationship of all component of autonomous architecture system.

1. Smuts, Jan Christiaan. Holism and Evolution. New York: Macmillan, 1926.
2. Electronics Austrailia. LIFE IN A COMPUTERISED ENVIRONMENT. Sept. 1972: 16-17.