Project Book: SEIVA City - Urban Ecosystems and Socio-Natural Infrastructures (original) (raw)

2018, Angulo, M., Rodriguez, P., Wong, M., Giesecke, A., & Bernaola, V., Li, J., Cermeño, P., & Montalván, J. (2018). SEIVA City: Urban Ecosystems and Socio-Natural Infrastructures. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

This project, developed as part of the Systems Design Orientation’s final projects of the BA in Industrial Design, is the resulting exploration of speculative design, critical design and systems design approaches towards the conceptualization of new possible urban habitation alternatives. Far beyond the reconfiguration of urban spaces and lifestyles associated to it operating in the ‘surface’, this project explores the fundamental relationships between human societal organization and natural ecosystems through a reframing of the systems and infrastructures that mediate society and nature, and sustain/deny life in all of its forms. We hope that this book serves as a provocative invitation for readers to reflect critically on our current urban systems through an in-depth exploration of alternative within-reach possibilities for socio-natural habitation and its underlying technical, social, and natural infrastructures, and ultimately, consider the path towards a systemic design of nature-societies, a possibility.