2024-12-22T04:16:04-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150354750/beauty-is-a-measure-of-ecological-intelligence-a-conversation-with-ecologicstudio-founders-claudia-pasquero-and-marco-poletto Niall Patrick Walsh 2023-07-31T09:00:00-04:00 >2023-07-28T21:24:06-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/26/26da40d563134f45a825015f4474aef3.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Against the backdrop of a frenzied AI discourse dominated by end-product tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney, Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto articulate a refreshing call to adventure. The two <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/98219524/ecologicstudio" target="_blank">ecoLogicStudio</a> founders have built their professional and academic careers at the intersection of computation and biology, allowing them to articulate a vision of artificial intelligence that, in their words, "is more like a slime mold, a spider's web, a microalgae colony, or a mycelium network." Here, the computational and biological find common ground in their use of patterns as meta-language; a commonality that, when pushed, invites both human and non-human designers to shape the built environment as an organism itself rather than a static entity enlivened only by our own mechanics. </p> <p>For Pasquero and Poletto, this is no theoretical exercise. ecoLogicStudio has already won wide acclaim for its real-world applications of ecological systems in the built environment while also articulating ...</p>