phase #2:

am prototype: the modelling and development
of a virtual participatory model of a social economy based
on research at Maison Radieuse and other residential
developments as prototypes of high density habitats.
The objective is to produce an evolving software prototype that
brings together economic and ecology through the concepts
of the autopoietic and the modular in a living context.

The modular is a modernist tool of scaling in mass production
for ease of application into a variety of production processes.
The autopoietic is a biological idea based on self-generation
with a cognitive understanding of environment. Both deal
with reproduction and replication in very different ways.

The pdfs show the development process preceding and parallel
to the software development. They are produced as a structure for discursive workshops alongside the development work on producing a software environment that progressively integrates complex strands of micro-social economy and ecology and creates new interfaces for participation. The final prototype may be viewed as a virtual inhabitant
that goes beyond the 'naked eye' for an understanding of potential interactions within a high density environment.

[ work in progress ]
software prototype development
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