Rachel Armstrong
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4333433 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rachel Armstrong |
| PRENOMES | Rachel |
| SOBRENOME | Armstrong |
| ASSINATURA | ARMSTRONG R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3516-6815 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
A hybrid ontology for metabolic architecture and human-centred AI
The Continuing Journey to Integrated care in the Western Trust
“Pathfinder” developed in 2018 due to significant local service challenges in Fermanagh and West Tyrone. The population health needs assessment highlighted the importance of strong community and primary care services, and the support to informal and formal carers to meet the challenges of delivering safe and sustainable Health and Social Care services in rural geographies of NI. Fermanagh and West Tyrone has a population of approx. 128,000, a lar…
Monstrous matter
To confront the escalating climate emergency, a new twenty-first century mythos of matter is essential-one that moves beyond the extractive, industrial paradigms of modernity. This emerging worldview centres on the concept of ?monstrous matter:? the unruly, dynamic materiality of life that resists categorization yet operates fully within the laws of physics and chemistry. This matter finds its ultimate expression in Gaia-not as a harmonious globe…
Response to Laura Tripaldi’s ‘Softness
Life, Mind and Matter
This essay critically examines the evolving relationship between chemistry and ecology, challenging the historical view of chemistry as purely mechanistic. It argues for a new perspective that recognises the dynamic and agentised qualities of matter. Drawing from diverse scientific and philosophical sources, it is argued that modern chemical theories can reshape how we understand life, agency, and intelligence within the material world. These ins…
The seductive choreography of space
Unlike traditional net-zero emissions approaches, regenerative methods not only manage resources efficiently but also invigorate the environment. Architects focusing on regenerative design can draw inspiration from flowering plants, whose exceptional spatial strategies exemplify the choreography of ecosystem interactions that sustain fertility. The paper introduces the concept of “XENO,” an artistic installation comprising a robotic carnivorous p…
Microbial technologies
This paper examines the applications of microbial technologies in regenerative architecture, which enliven the built environment and its territories by establishing a different relationship between waste, energy, human inhabitation, and microbial “life.” The specific platform discussed is centered on the microbial fuel cell (an ecologically “just” platform that provides bioelectrical energy, data, and chemical transformation from human waste stre…
Introducing Regenerative Architecture
The global-scale impacts of the Anthropocene have reached tipping points of order, resulting in the climate emergency. We are no longer able to carefully adjust our industrial practices to put this titan back into its box, and we must enter a new era of human development to meet our present needs. This involves restoring the living realm through bioremediating environments, enlivening communities, enriching soils, and rebuilding ecosystems as we …
Energy manifesto
This viewpoint outlines the environmentally toxic view of energy that frames industrial modernism, which is fundamentally anti-life. An alternative, regenerative worldview is proposed, offering new ideals that are supposed to redesign the world by working in concert with the energies of the living world in ways that are fundamentally life-promoting. Centered on microbial metabolisms that form the living base of the biosphere, referred to as the m…
Notes From the Field
In this perspectives article, our school nurse implementation partners and human-centered design experts reflect on challenges overcome in this process of developing a tailored implementation guide to school nurses and offer lessons from the field to others seeking to co-create implementation guides with community partners
Developing a Social Determinants of Health Needs Assessment for Colorado Kids (SNACK) Tool for a School-Based Asthma Program
This community-based screening tool addresses key SDOH needs that impact asthma and is acceptable to families. The next steps are to implement the tool in school-based asthma programs to support improvements in asthma outcomes and disparities by identifying and addressing families' unmet SDOH needs
Monstering
This paper outlines the transdisciplinary practice of monstering, a toolset used by the Experimental Architecture Group (EAG) to engage with a world in constant flux. The chapter describes recent Experimental Architecture projects that draw attention to the need for radical change at a time of ecocide. Our ‘monstering’ perspectives draw inspiration from the countless forms of cooperation and acts of generosity that underpin healthy ecological sys…
Soft Living Architecture
"Soft Living Architecture explores the invention of new architectures based on living processes. It crafts a unique intersection between two fast-developing disciplines: biomimicry and biodesign in architecture, and bioinformatics and natural computing in the natural sciences. This is the first book to examine both the theory and methodology of architecture and design working directly with the natural world. It explores a range of approaches from…
Evaluation of French motorway network in relation to slime mould transport networks
France has developed a high quality motorway system that has been rapidly rationalised and matured in the late 20th century yet has been founded on ancient, Roman infrastructures. The development of the motorway system is thus an iterative method associated with hierarchical ‘top-down’ processes taking into consideration factors such as population density, network demand, location of natural resources, civil engineering challenges and population …
Soft Living Architecture
"Soft Living Architecture explores the invention of new architectures based on living processes. It crafts a unique intersection between two fast-developing disciplines: biomimicry and biodesign in architecture, and bioinformatics and natural computing in the natural sciences. This is the first book to examine both the theory and methodology of architecture and design working directly with the natural world. It explores a range of approaches from…
Evaluation of French motorway network in relation to slime mould transport networks
France has developed a high quality motorway system that has been rapidly rationalised and matured in the late 20th century yet has been founded on ancient, Roman infrastructures. The development of the motorway system is thus an iterative method associated with hierarchical ‘top-down’ processes taking into consideration factors such as population density, network demand, location of natural resources, civil engineering challenges and population …
Soft Living Architecture
"Soft Living Architecture explores the invention of new architectures based on living processes. It crafts a unique intersection between two fast-developing disciplines: biomimicry and biodesign in architecture, and bioinformatics and natural computing in the natural sciences. This is the first book to examine both the theory and methodology of architecture and design working directly with the natural world. It explores a range of approaches from…
Monstering
This paper outlines the transdisciplinary practice of monstering, a toolset used by the Experimental Architecture Group (EAG) to engage with a world in constant flux. The chapter describes recent Experimental Architecture projects that draw attention to the need for radical change at a time of ecocide. Our ‘monstering’ perspectives draw inspiration from the countless forms of cooperation and acts of generosity that underpin healthy ecological sys…
The seductive choreography of space
Unlike traditional net-zero emissions approaches, regenerative methods not only manage resources efficiently but also invigorate the environment. Architects focusing on regenerative design can draw inspiration from flowering plants, whose exceptional spatial strategies exemplify the choreography of ecosystem interactions that sustain fertility. The paper introduces the concept of “XENO,” an artistic installation comprising a robotic carnivorous p…
Microbial technologies
This paper examines the applications of microbial technologies in regenerative architecture, which enliven the built environment and its territories by establishing a different relationship between waste, energy, human inhabitation, and microbial “life.” The specific platform discussed is centered on the microbial fuel cell (an ecologically “just” platform that provides bioelectrical energy, data, and chemical transformation from human waste stre…
Introducing Regenerative Architecture
The global-scale impacts of the Anthropocene have reached tipping points of order, resulting in the climate emergency. We are no longer able to carefully adjust our industrial practices to put this titan back into its box, and we must enter a new era of human development to meet our present needs. This involves restoring the living realm through bioremediating environments, enlivening communities, enriching soils, and rebuilding ecosystems as we …
Energy manifesto
This viewpoint outlines the environmentally toxic view of energy that frames industrial modernism, which is fundamentally anti-life. An alternative, regenerative worldview is proposed, offering new ideals that are supposed to redesign the world by working in concert with the energies of the living world in ways that are fundamentally life-promoting. Centered on microbial metabolisms that form the living base of the biosphere, referred to as the m…
Notes From the Field
In this perspectives article, our school nurse implementation partners and human-centered design experts reflect on challenges overcome in this process of developing a tailored implementation guide to school nurses and offer lessons from the field to others seeking to co-create implementation guides with community partners
Developing a Social Determinants of Health Needs Assessment for Colorado Kids (SNACK) Tool for a School-Based Asthma Program
This community-based screening tool addresses key SDOH needs that impact asthma and is acceptable to families. The next steps are to implement the tool in school-based asthma programs to support improvements in asthma outcomes and disparities by identifying and addressing families' unmet SDOH needs
Life, Mind and Matter
This essay critically examines the evolving relationship between chemistry and ecology, challenging the historical view of chemistry as purely mechanistic. It argues for a new perspective that recognises the dynamic and agentised qualities of matter. Drawing from diverse scientific and philosophical sources, it is argued that modern chemical theories can reshape how we understand life, agency, and intelligence within the material world. These ins…
The Continuing Journey to Integrated care in the Western Trust
“Pathfinder” developed in 2018 due to significant local service challenges in Fermanagh and West Tyrone. The population health needs assessment highlighted the importance of strong community and primary care services, and the support to informal and formal carers to meet the challenges of delivering safe and sustainable Health and Social Care services in rural geographies of NI. Fermanagh and West Tyrone has a population of approx. 128,000, a lar…
Monstrous matter
To confront the escalating climate emergency, a new twenty-first century mythos of matter is essential-one that moves beyond the extractive, industrial paradigms of modernity. This emerging worldview centres on the concept of ?monstrous matter:? the unruly, dynamic materiality of life that resists categorization yet operates fully within the laws of physics and chemistry. This matter finds its ultimate expression in Gaia-not as a harmonious globe…
Response to Laura Tripaldi’s ‘Softness
A hybrid ontology for metabolic architecture and human-centred AI
Computer Science (9 obras) · Architecture (6 obras) · Biology (5 obras) · Engineering (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Architectural engineering (4 obras) · Art (4 obras) · Ecology (4 obras) · Environmental ethics (4 obras)