The following are more references on the Ecology of the
Artificial that I sent Viveka off-line after she had posted her
summary list:

A version of the article Pantzar article was part of one of the
Lancaster summer academies:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/esf/commodities.htm

A layish version of the ecology of things informs Harvey Molotch's
_Where Stuff Comes From_

Molotch was part of Elizabeth Shove's design and consumption
research project which is appearing as a book shortly:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/dnc/
http://www.bergpublishers.com/uk/book_page.asp?BKTitle=The%20Design%20of%20Everyday%20Life 

Her account of practices connects the idea of ecology of the
artificial to human habits and habituses:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/staff/shove/choreography/front.htm

You should also look at Tony Fry's interventions on the topic
in _Remakings: Ecology Design Politics_
And of course Latour's work, eg the encyclopedic
_Making Things Public_
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/expositions/index.html

The idea of tools (and rooms and worlds) being interdependent is
axial to Heidegger's account of equipmentality in _Being and Time_.
The idea is widely taken up in philosophies of technology (see
Carl Mitcham's overview) and sociologies of technical innovation
with notions like reverse saliences and path dependency.

There is much talk these days about 'the internet of things' with
RFIDs allowing things to talk to each other. So Bruce Sterling
talks about the resulting ecology in _Shaping Things_. More
poetic and speculative, with a closer link to Branzi and Manzini
(and Moles and Flusser), is Marco Susani's work on RFIDs:
http://flow.doorsofperception.com/content/susani_trans.html


Viveka Turnbull wrote:

> The origins of  'The Ecology of the Artificial'
> The timeline I have so far from the references people have given me is as
> follows:
>
> 1968, Baudrillard, "The System of Objects"
> 1969, Simon HA, "The Science of Objects"
> 1972, Bateson, "Steps to an Ecology of Mind"
> 1978, Boulding KE, "Ecodynamics: A New Theory of Societal Evolution"
> 1988, Branzi "Learning from Milan: Design and the Second Modernity"
> 1989, Krippendorff, "On the Essential Contexts of Artifacts or on the
> Proposition that 'Design is Making Sense (of Things)'"
> 1990, "The Munich Design Charter"
> 1990, Manzini, "Artifacts. Verso una nuova ecologia dell'ambiente
> artificiale"
> 1992, Manzini "Prometheus of the Everyday: The Ecology of the 
> Artificial and
> the Designer's Responsibility"
> 1993, Pantzar P, "Do Commodities reproduce themselves through human 
> beings,
> towards an ecology of goods"
>
> Thanks
> v.
>
>
> On 25/07/07, Viveka Turnbull <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Ooops, that was a typo it is 1988 (not 1888) it was used by Andrea 
>> Branzi
>> in his book 'Learning from Milan: Design and the Second Modernity'
>>
>> Thanks
>> v.
>>
>>
>>  On 25/07/07, John Feland <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Viveka,
>> >
>> > It's probably a play on Science of the Artificial, Herb Simon's
>> > definition of Design.  Or maybe, given your 1888 reference, Simon got
>> > it from Branzi.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>> > At 10:33 PM 7/23/2007, you wrote:
>> > >I am trying to trace the origins of the term 'The Ecology of the
>> > Artificial'
>> > >
>> > >in 1992 Manzini uses it in the Design Issues paper 'Prometheus of the
>> > >Everyday'
>> > >in 1990 it is used in 'the Munich Design Charter', published in 
>> Design
>> > >Issues in 1991
>> > >in 1888 it used by Andrea Branzi in his book 'Learning from Milan:
>> > Design
>> > >and the Second Modernity'
>> > >
>> > >Does the term come from Branzi or from somewhere ells?
>> > >
>> > >Thanks
>> > >v.
>> > >
>> > >--
>> > >Viveka Turnbull Hocking
>> > >PhD in Environmental Design
>> > >University of Canberra
>> > >Tel...........02 6456 7439
>> > >Mobile.....0431 945 252
>> > >Mail.........PO Box 1066,
>> > >                Jindabyne NSW 2627
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Viveka Turnbull Hocking
>> Tel...........02 6456 7439
>> Mobile.....0431 945 252
>> Mail.........PO Box 1066,
>>                 Jindabyne NSW 2627
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