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Climate Change Adaptation &

Transformation through an

Ecoregion Placemaking

Approach

Charles M. Beck, Urban/Environmental Planner,

Synthesis Three, synthesisthree.com

• The living open access model provides interchangeable elements for a

worldwide economy of knowledge to its users.

May 12, 2015

Framework: Synthesis by Design

Ten Synthesis Principles

Intent:

EcoCivilization

One Planet, One Ecosystem, One

Civilization, Many Neighborhoods…

Synthesis defined… A synthesis can be created by asking …. “What if?”

an action, a place…

The Synthesis Principle:

Climate Change Adaptation and Transformation Placemaking…

Premise:

• All sites are habitats governed by

Stewardship.

• Placemaking is a conscious making of a place.

Placemaking can be a transformative and sustainable science and art.

Placemaking within the ecological humanity: Questions and Concerns

What are the similarities between social and ecological systems? What are the basics such as matter, energy, space, time and information, connectivity, processes, exchanges and flows that exist within the social and the ecological systems? How are the systems interconnected through these similarities? When and how are these basics influenced by each system when they interface and are blended for sustainability? What commons pattern language can be formed from this for planetary development?  Prime concern is how can an understanding of these basics be communicated with the various members of the earth’s society to further equitable planetary development for an “ecological humanity”?

Thesis: Develop an Ecoregion Placemaking

Interchangeability Model

Thesis Question: Can a model for Social-Ecological Ecoregion Placemaking be developed from a synthesis framework for duplication at similar ecoregions on the planet? The Ecoregion Model Approach:  Provide options and interchangeability  Synthesize & develop off the shelf concepts, plans, blueprints, components, parts, etc. applicable to a specific Ecoregion.  Develop as an economy of knowledge by providing open access to accumulated knowledge to avoid reinventing the wheel.  Apply the baseline 10 Synthesis Principles

The search for a common ground - common language:

• Establish an intent for a common ground through a

Pattern language.

• Develop with interchangeability in mind.
• Develop a pattern language algorithm (?).
• Unite through an open access Knowledge Management

system. e.g.

Placemaking is a System of Systems (S0S)

SOS Placemaking Basics: Setting the project footprint  What are the shapes, forms, and patterns of adaptation and transformation within the project footprint?  Ask what are the: Efficient, sufficient, appropriate, compatible means for implementation?

• Who, what, when, where, why, how much and how many?
• How and what is and can be connected?

 Outline methods, components, devices, equitable means to implement and maintain a Social-Ecological corridor.  Goal: Create Ecoregion Development Guidelines from S0S

A Synthesis of System of Systems (S0S) to integrate patterns:

• Climate & extreme weather forecasts
• Ecoregions – watershed envelope
• Ecology
• Transects – Corridor
• Social – Ecology Stewardship
• Habitats
• Infrastructure
• Ecoinfrastructue
• Governance
• Urban form
• Social systems & values
• Technology
• Circular economics
• Knowledge management
• Open access providers

Placemaking assessments: considerations for the human social component …

A social ecology of placemaking is one that enables value creation through the blending of risk management and human value drivers

under the umbrella of Social-Ecological

Stewardship.

 Understand the language of beliefs, fears, nostalgia, aspirations, and heart as shared value drivers of the human within Ecobased places. Define the social contract.

Connect

Coupled uses

A Pattern Language: Many patterns form a language.

The mix of Ecoregion elements form patterns within Project site footprints.

Branches

A commons knowledge and a Pattern Language

Definition: Pattern Language

• A language develops by looking for patterns, shapes, and

associations fundamental for achieving a common ground of, thinking, communications, and application. The language is evolutionary in the aspect that it develops forms, structure, grows, changes, adapts and transforms.

• A social, planning and design language
• Why a pattern language? To be able to communicate at multiple

scales through a system of systems language.  Also part of the question of does one size fit all? Examples of the pattern language quest:

Nature Patterns Shapes Flow Cycles Growth Transform Branching Function Matter

Space Time Energy Information

Circuits

Open Close Feedback Measure Capture store

Infrastructure Scales

Input Output

Collect

Store Distribute Efficiency Sufficient

Use

Appropriate Regulate

Infrastructure Patterns

Integrate Function Node

Surface

Container Networks Branches Channel Decentralize Centralize Blending Interface/ coupling

Ecosystems

Patches Cycles Resources Corridors Nutrients

A grouping of the pattern language concepts:

PLANNING SITE CONTEXT ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES MATERIALS DEVICES ACTIVE/PASSIVE URBAN DESIGN & HOUSING

TRANSPORTATION & CIRCULATION

ENERGY USE & CONSERVATION

INDUSTRY & ECONOMY

WATER SUPPLY & CONSERVATION

BIODIVERSITY & ECOLOGY

AGRICULTURE

RECREATION

BYPRODUCTS

SOCIAL ECOLOGY

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ECOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY

Vernacular Matrix : A Typology

URBAN DESIGN & HOUSING ENERGY USE & CONSERVATION BIODIVERSITY & ECOLOGY SOCIAL ECOLOGY

Vernacular Matrix Typology

PLANNING SITE CONTEXT ARCHITECT FEATURES MATERIALS DEVICES: ACTIVE PASSIVE

Envelope design, edge treatment Site orientation Solar Connectivity, ecological footprint Safe place design, walkable environment, reduced setbacks, carbon sinks

• Standards &

Specifications

• Best Practices
• Performance

Standards & Measurements

• Social-Ecological

Development Indicators

• Designs
• Plans

Site Patterns: Microcaptures = small scale resource management

Incorporation of Resource-Element Microcapture within a site:

• Capturing air, energy (solar), water in small amounts:
• Microcapture components of circuits exist throughout the site and

add to the overall site element equations for collection and use. Occurrences: Design for drops in elevations, angles, joining, flows, funneling, surfaces.

• Micro capture can be obtained by incorporating structure, devices,

design features, angles, elevations, etc.

• A Social-Ecological pattern language is identified and designed for

corridor development applications

• Ecoregion Social-Ecological Placemaking

as an approach to planetary transformations

e.g.1. Infrastructure:

• a. Energy
• b. Water
• c. Transportation
• d. Information
• e. Social
• f. Eco

Oasis Centers

Development Overlay Implementation: Planning in incremental stages for transformation considering current and possible materials, technologies, adaptive ecologies, resource conservation, social and economic networks.

Connected Circuits:

Through Polycentric Governance

• Developing

Overlay codes: “All sites are habitat governed by stewardship.”

Corridor placemaking: Social-Ecological (S-E) corridor elements

blend interconnecting networks into adaptive transformative

• patterns. Unite Development & Environmental Services connectivity

throughout the regional corridor carbon footprint goals.  Network S-E system drivers include: climate biotic transitions, social values, population changes, ecosystem equilibrium issues, complexity, and system dynamics uncertainties within risk management decisions. Keys to constructing the network include:  Integrate S-E stewardship in regional policy and planning.

Corridor Placemaking elements cont.

• Develop a regional-local scale network of links and nodes.

 Incorporate regenerative elements within the MESTI principle Resource Circuits for the natural and built environments.

• Transparent multi-partnership planning and development with open

access knowledge management.

• Multimodal transport & distribution access network provides a corridor

“circular economy” through application of local maker-additive manufacture.  Connect local economics with social and natural capital and services: District Code within the polycentric overlay district ordinance: e.g.

“All sensors and associated data communication devices shall be repaired by resources within the Community whenever possible.”

Small mammal/reptile shelter medium/large mammal trail Bobcat, deer, coyote, raccoon, cougar

Every site is a habitat: Biology as a an Ecoinfrastructure at river bridge site

Developing a wildlife passage:

• Identify where to build
• Determine target species
• Examine target species behavior; what

habitat characteristics do they prefer or will avoid?

• Choose a structure type; underpass,

culvert, overpass

• Design the passage; openness ratio,

natural substrate, size, funneling/fencing, lighting , monitoring plan Biotic Communities

Corridor Placemaking elements cont.  Environmental Transect and watershed baseline.  Assess impacts from a watershed/regional view  Integrate social patterns with ecological patterns  Mimic ecological processes as baselines when possible. E.g. “there is no waste in nature.”  Incorporate decentralized elements within corridor circuits.  Integrate a regional ecosystem framework into long-range planning place-making.  Establish a regional conservation strategy for resources and ecosystems within infrastructure plans.  Provide Ecoinfrastructure integration

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Baseline Definitions:

Adaptation: Circuits: The circuit concept develops an image of the various paths within a sustainable and regenerative community for energy, water, transport, and

• information. There are social and ecological circuits.

Circuits and the MESTI resources at any of the PERL scales function through a balance of carrying capacity, allocation, efficiency, sufficiency, appropriateness, proportion, use, reuse, storage, and maintenance. These functions are also involved in the externalities of pollution, decay, loss of resource, loss of capacity and regeneration.

Social-Ecology: The components of social and ecological systems viewed as interacting and interdependent at multiple scales. The social-ecology of infrastructure: The social-ecology of infrastructure (S-E-I) is a whole systems approach to the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance

• f a societies’ development components such as transportation facilities within an

ecological footprint. The S-E system elements include: resilience, cycles, adaptive capacity and management, conservation, appropriateness, efficiency, and sufficiency. With that framework, a project value based benefit analysis and purpose and need statement would also include the needs of the ecological as well as the social systems. The equation is to find the balance through a blending of the social and ecological systems within development projects. Ecoregion: Major ecosystem, resulting from large-scale predictable patterns of solar radiation and moisture, which in turn affect the kinds of local ecosystems and animals and plants found there. (Baily, R. 1998)

Ecosystem: An area of any size with an association of physical and biological components so organized that a change in any one component will bring about change in other components and in the operation of the whole system. (Baily. R. 1998) Ecoinfrastructure: Knowledge: Resilience: The amount of change a system can undergo (its capacity to absorb disturbance) and remain within the same regime, essentially retaining the same function, structure and feedbacks. (Walker & Scott, 2006) Ecostructure: Adaptive Strategies: Infrastructure: Transformation:

Ten Synthesis Guiding Principles: These 10 principals serve as foundation stones for the building of any Synthesis social-ecological project. How these principals are applied and to what degree are part of the evolutionary process of each planetary project and the Synthesis Three program (initiative). Ten (10) fundamental principles are applied in this approach: 1) A Social-Ecology Stewardship 2) The recognition that Matter Energy, Space, Time and Information (MESTI™) as Global Resources 3) Connectivity 4) Interchangeability 5) Multi-scale Transboundaries 6) Open Access to Knowledge 7) Reciprocity 8) Global Asset Building 9) Transparency 10) Synthesis. PERL Scales: Planet, Ecosystem, Region, Local neighborhood (PERL) Five Universal Elements: Fire, Air, Water, Earth, Life Force

A Synthesis Pattern Language: Social-Ecological Placemaking Pattern Language for ecology, infrastructure, policies and practices, built environment, urban/rural form.

Universal Resources: Matter, Energy, Space, Time, Information (MESTI), Physical laws govern a sustainable system: The physical laws such as the Laws of Conservation govern the MESTI resources not only at the physical scale but also at the human scale. This is simply because the human scale is part of the physical universe. The MESTI resources at any of the Planet, Ecosystem, Region, and Local Neighborhood (PERL) scales function through a balance of carrying capacity, allocation, efficiency, sufficiency, appropriateness, proportion, use, reuse, storage, and maintenance. These functions are also involved in the externalities of pollution, decay, loss of resource, loss of capacity and regeneration.