Ecological System Loops
I am developing a practice-based conceptual study to understand how we linking the uncertainty of the organic world with the structural nature of real-world systems.
Position
Human systems often fail not because of a lack of data, but because signals are delayed, fragmented, or ignored. Biological and ecological systems, however, operate through continuous sensing, feedback, and adaptation.
My research begins at this gap — between what exists, and what can be perceived, interpreted, and acted upon.
Linking the uncertainty of the organic world with the structural nature of real-world systems.
Ecological System Loopds
The Ecological System Loop describes how signals move across sensing, modelling, interpretation, and intervention. It reframes design not as object-making, but as continuous engagement within dynamic systems.
Ecological Mind:
Not human subjective consciousness, but a systemic mode of perception that encompasses relationships, feedback, interdependence and multi-species interactions
Translation:
The process of converting non-human signals into a form that can be interpreted by technology, institutions or human decision-makers
CPHS:
An action system constituted by sensors, computing, interfaces, actors and organisational mechanisms
Ecological Effects:
The consequences arising at the levels of the environment, behaviour, allocation of responsibility and cognition following systemic intervention
Recursive Cycles
My research does not view systems as linear processes, but as recursive cycles. Human practice operates within an entangled structure of two interdependent loops
– a systemic cycle (how the world operates)
– a disciplinary cycle (how we produce knowledge)
The Ecological System Loop operates as a double-loop system: an inner methodological loop linking ecological mind, translation, systems, and effects; and an outer disciplinary loop through which art, science, design, and engineering continuously inform one another.