Ecospace-ing

This project outlines a new transdisciplinary research framework, insisting on ‘communication’ with the agency of a living world, while being rooted in disciplinary knowledge across architecture, sociology and biology. ‘Ecospace’ is a new research framework in itself, in biology, where the biodiversity of a given biotope is qualified through ecological processes (Brunbjerg et al. 2017). In sociology, neighborhoods are qualified through social processes, identified in the level and composition of collective efficacy. In both cases, the environment is a spatial actor inseparable from the species that inhabit it, whether terrestrial or constructed.

Hence, this project research a development process towards a research framework that can deliver empirical data from case studies as called for by Kallis et al. (2025), whereby possible spatial correlations between interspecies well-being and sufficiency within planetary boundaries can be identified.

The project is internally funded at Aarhus School of Architecture and Aarhus University, Department of Ecoscience in the framework of Aarhus Center for Regenerative Building.