Ekistics

ReSearch and Perspectives of Ekistics

Organisations and Institutions Relating to Ekistics

NGOs

• The World Society for Ekistics (WSE) - http://www.urosario.edu.co/cpg-ri/WorldSocietyforEkistics/World-Society-for-Ekistics/The-World-Society-for-Ekistics-(WSE)/#.V7PaA5N97Ob

Businesses relating to Ekistics

• Ekistics (CA) - http://ekistics.com/who-we-are/ - Multi-Disciplinary Design and Consulting Studio
• Ekistics and Form:Media - http://www.ekistics.net/ - planning, landscape architecture, engineering, architecture and interior design
• Ekistics Planning and Design Services (Adelaide) -http://ekistics.com.au/
• US
  • Ekistics Inc - http://www.ekisticsinc.com/
  • Ekistics LLC http://ekisticsllc.com/ - Real estate development and consulting company

Ekistics related Education

• Ekistics Research Unit ERU, Auckland, NZ
• National United University of Taiwan, Professor Nobuyuki Sekiguchi, Lecture Course: Ekistics
  • First year Masters Program, February 2010
• Schools of Political Science and International Relations, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia.
  • Professor Eduardo Barajas, Dean
  • Universidad del Rosario offers a program of Urban Management and Development (Ekistics). This program was created in 2006 and is the first undergraduate study in this field in Colombia.
  • At this moment there are 123 students which have the possibility of exchange programs that enables them to attend Universities in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, the United States of America, France, Italy, Mexico and Peru among others.
  • The program has also an agreement with L' Institut de Sciences Politiques, Bordeaux (France), which offers students the possibility to gain a double honors degree after approving a number of credits.

Ekistics Research

• ATHENS CENTER OF EKISTICS (ACE) of the ATHENS TECHNOLOGICAL ORGANISATION (ATO)
  • City of the Future (COF) - http://www.doxiadis.org/page/?id=18
  • Human Community (HUCO) - http://www.doxiadis.org/page/default.asp?la=1&id=17
  • Capital of Greece (COG)
  • Ancient Greek Cities (AGC) - http://www.doxiadis.org/page/default.asp?la=1&id=16
• Ekistics Research Unit ERU, Auckland, NZ
  • TW Fookes: Education based on Ekistic Theory and Practice to Enable Action for Sustainable Humane Habitats ICHH paper 091207
  • Sharmila Jagadisan, and TW Fookes, Research Memorandum RM 09 1 Extending the scope and methodology of Ekistic theory and practice Part 1: Introduction.
  • Sharmila Jagadisan, and TW Fookes: Research Memorandum RM 09 2 Extending the scope and methodology of Ekistic theory and practice Part 2(a): Antecedents
  • Sharmila Jagadisan, and TW Fookes: Research Memorandum RM 09 3 Extending the scope and methodology of Ekistic theory and practice Part 2(b): Contemporaries
  • Sharmila Jagadisan, and TW Fookes: Research Memorandum RM 10 1 Extending the scope and methodology of Ekistic theory and practice Part 2(c): Other Influences 2(b)
  • Sharmila Jagadisan, and TW Fookes: Research Memorandum RM 10 2.

Journals, Articles and Presentations

• Ekistics Journal By the Athens Center of Ekistics - https://www.jstor.org/journal/ekistics - Last published 2006
• http://www.slideshare.net/HemantMishra8/doxiadis-ekistics-the-science-of-human-settlement

Concepts of Ekistics

What is Ekistics?

• A Science
  • Based on Statistics
  • Description
  • More scientific than urban planning
  • Architectural Theory
• About Human Settlements
  • Regional
  • City
  • Community Planning
  • Dwelling Design
• Affecting
  • Geography
  • Ecology
  • Human Psychology
  • Anthropology
  • Culture
  • Politics
  • Aesthetics
• Aimed at achieving Harmony between the inhabitants of a settlement and their Physical and Socio-Cultural Environments

The Ekistics Framework

First Dimension: Relative to Scale

• Lower End: The individual, Room, dwelling
• Extreme: City, Urban continent, World-Wide City

Second Dimension: Man's 5 Environmental Elements or Principles

1. Nature: Maximise man's Potential contacts with
   1. Elements of Nature (water and trees)
   2. Other People
   3. Other Works of Man (buildings and Roads)
2. Society: Minimize effort required for achievement of man's actual and potential contacts
3. Shells: Optimisation of man's protective space
   1. Selection of Distance from other persons, animals or objects that he can keep his Contacts with them (First Principle) without any sensory or psychological discomfort
4. Networks: Optimisation of quality of man's relationship with the environment e.g. Nature, Society, Shells (Buildings, houses) and Networks (Roads and telecommunications)
   1. Leads to order,
   2. physiological and aesthetic
   3. influences architecture and Art
5. Anthropos: Man organises his settlements to achieve optimum synthesis of other 4 principles
   1. dependent on time and space
   2. actual conditions
   3. man's ability to create a synthesis

Example of the 5 Ekistic Principles and their Outcomes

History/Etymology of Ekistics

• 1942 by Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis
  • Derived from Greek (In order of derivation, top being the latest)
    • Adjectives οἰκιστικός : "concerning the foundation of a house, a habitation, a city or colony; contributing to the settling."
    • Noun οἰκιστής: "the person who installs settlers in place".
    • Noun, οἴκισις, meaning "building", "housing", "habitation", and especially "establishment of a colony, a settlement , or a town" (already in Plato), or "filling with new settlers", settling", "being settled".
    • Verb οἰκίζω, to settle
    • Noun οἶκος, "house", "home" or "habitat.
• English
  • noun: Ekistics
  • Adjective: ekistic, Ekistical
  • Adverb: Ekistically
  • Noun: ZEikistician
• French: ékistique (Fem.
• German: oekistik (Fem.)
• Italian: echistica (Fem.)

The Scope of Ekistics

• In Outdoor Recreation: One's Relationship with the Natural World and how they view the resources within it
• Interaction
  • between and within human Groups
    • Infrastructure
    • Agriculture
    • Shelter
    • Function/Job
  • In conjunction with the Environment
  • Directly affecting their well-being
    • Individual or Collective
• How humans "should" be living in order to manifest our potential.
• In order of human settlements to expand efficiently and economically we must reorganise the way villages, towns, cities, metropoli are formed.
• Based on
  • Systems Thinking
  • Biological evolutionary reference
    • Julian Juxley
    • THeodosius Dobzhansky
    • Dennis Gabor
    • Rene Dubos
    • George G Simpson
    • Conrad Waddington
• Use of
  • Biological model to describe Ekistic Behavior of the 5 principles of Ekistics Anthropos
  • Evolutionary Model to explain morphogenesis of human settlements
    • Eleven Forces
    • Hierarchical Structure of human settlements
    • ZDynapolis
    • Ecumenopolis
• General Theory where human settlements are like living organisms capable of evolution and to be guided by Man using Ekistic Knowledge

Ekistic Units and Population Scale

Reference

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekistics
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning
• http://www.slideshare.net/HemantMishra8/doxiadis-ekistics-the-science-of-human-settlement

OUTLINES

About the World Society for Ekistics (WSE)

What is it?

• A non-political and non-religious body with limited membership, formed to study human patterns of living and their physical expression in the past, present and future.
• An international non-governmental organization (NGO) in consultative status with the United Nations (ECOSOC). Members representing the Society regularly attend activities of the U.N. and particularly of the Human Settlements Program, Habitat.

What are the aims and objectives of the Society?

• To promote the development of knowledge and ideas concerning human settlements by research and through publications, conferences, scholarships, etc.;
• To encourage the development and expansion of education in ekistics;
• To educate public opinion concerning ekistics, thus stimulating world-wide interest and cooperation;
• To recognize the benefits and the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach to the needs of human settlements, and to promote and emphasize such an approach.

History of the WSE

• The initiative for the foundation of the World Society for Ekistics took place during the Delos Symposion 1965 (Delos Three), which was convened by C.A.Doxiadis and the Athens Center of Ekistics.
• The Steering Committee consisted of participants from the Delos Symposia, who held a series of meetings in Athens, Paris and London, before reaching a final decision in London in 1965. The Society was incorporated under the laws of
  • Greece as of July 29, 1967
  • State of Delaware , USA , as of March 26, 1970
  • France as of May 15, 1975 .

Reference

• http://www.urosario.edu.co/cpg-ri/WorldSocietyforEkistics/World-Society-for-Ekistics/The-World-Society-for-Ekistics-(WSE)/#.V7PaA5N97Ob

About C.A. Doxiadis

• http://www.urosario.edu.co/cpg-ri/WorldSocietyforEkistics/World-Society-for-Ekistics/Ekistics-The-Science-of-Human-Settlements/#.V7PdbJN97OY

About the Delos Declarations

• Delos Declarations (part 1) - http://www.urosario.edu.co/cpg-ri/WorldSocietyforEkistics/archivos/Delos-Declarations-(One-to-Six).pdf
• Delos Declarations (part 2) - http://www.urosario.edu.co/cpg-ri/WorldSocietyforEkistics/archivos/Delos-Declarations-(Seven-to-Twelve).pdf
• The Delians - http://www.urosario.edu.co/cpg-ri/WorldSocietyforEkistics/archivos/The-Delians-(one-page).pdf
• Delos Symposia - http://www.ekistics.org/DA%20Newsletter.pdf