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

Perceived Continuation

Rooted in gestalt principles, perceived continuation is one example of visual perception that occurs when we are exposed to something directly and use that information to speculate what lies beyond. As Ross Adams explains, the architecture of the Eden Project, when experienced from the inside, begins to disappear, while the skin produces a blurry, artificial sky. 1 Beyond the confines of the biome, the outside world appears misty and abstracted, and becomes a sort of universal backdrop, which therefore tempts the occupant into making inferences about what exists on the horizon. 2 “The point is to lose oneself in a total environment that has little to do with the actual Cornish countryside beyond Eden.” 3 In this train of thought, it could be quite possible for the Eden Project to be situated anywhere geographically, and still have the same effect on the user. For example, in theory, there would be no difference in the perceived continuation of the project if it was located in the middle of a desert, or on an island in the middle of the ocean, or in the middle of a forest—the effect will always ‘trick’ the occupant into thinking he or she is in the middle of the actual biome present inside of the bubble.

1. Ross Adams, “Approaching the End: Eden and the Catastrophe.” 90.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.