Terms
Ecology
Ecology is the study of relationships among living organisms including humans and their physical environment (non-living organisms). Natural sciences came up with different levels and scopes of organization (habitat, community ecology or food webs, reach from micro degrees to planetary scales) but all establish the same point: an ecology, is not just a list of living organisms; it’s the set of relationships between those living (and non living) things.
Situated
Situated or situating is not about mere localization or position but also about context, circumstances and relations that make them.
New Materialism
New Materialism is a theoretical framework (philosophy/ social sciences) that emphasizes the agency and significance of material things, objects, and non-human entities in shaping our understanding of the world. It challenges traditional human-centric perspectives by highlighting the dynamic interactions between humans and their material environment, often drawing attention to how materiality influences and shapes our experiences, rather than being passive or inert.
Undisciplinary
Disciplinary here relates to knowledge acqired by learning as opposed to Experience or intuition. Undisciplinarity relates to knowledge acqired by lived experince, listening, conversation and intuition.
API
API (application programming interface) is a type of software interface that lets two or more computer programs communicate with each other. An API is constituted by being called. These calls can be described as the medium by which they interact.
