Housing as Ecology

Topic owner: Kaytee

Cf.

• Health

• Wellbeing

• Dirt

• Decay, aesthetics of decay, imperfection, incompletness

• Houses, building, novel ecosystems as habitats or ecological niches.

• Coexistence in such places.

• Evolution and co-evolution of species in such places.

• Examples of management and adaptation.

• Scope for innovation.

Multiple temporal scales at which houses exist. Abandoned housing. How quickly they can deteriorate and become uninhabitable.

Exposome

References

Dunn, Rob R. Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live. New York: Basic Books, 2018.

Dunn, Rob R. A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species. New York: Basic Books, 2021.