ABOUT ENERGETIC
"Now you can see what every material truly costs."
ENERGETIC is an epistemological instrument. It makes the thermodynamic reality of every action, material, and process visible — what things actually cost in energy terms, where energy comes from, where it goes, and what it transforms.
What ENERGETIC Makes Visible
The solar energy history embedded in every material you specify
The full thermodynamic trajectory of a material from geological formation to eventual return
The ΔE — the energy change — caused by each architectural decision
Where your site sits in both Fuller's surface geography and Arènes's depth cycles
A common currency for comparing radically different materials and processes
How thermodynamic consequences feed back from energetic accounting to spatial and participatory research
The Productive Tensions
ENERGETIC does not resolve these tensions — it holds them open as generative spaces for research.
ENERGETIC in the Three-Platform System
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🗺️Multi-scalar Critical Zone maps, Dymaxion projections, geological section drawings. The spatial context for every material trajectory.
The Fuller ↔ Arènes cartographic convergence rendered as interactive navigable visualisations.
Navigate collective agency and political orientation — now weighted with EMERGY evidence from this platform.
Who holds the power to redirect material trajectories? Agency maps weighted by thermodynamic consequence.
Key References
- Fuller, R. B. (1975). Synergetics. Macmillan.
- Moe, K. (2014). Insulating Modernism. Birkhäuser.
- Moe, K. (2021). Unless: The Seagram Building Construction Ecology. Actar.
- Moe, K. (2025). Forest-First: Timber Building & Timber Urbanism. Actar.
- Odum, H. T. (1996). Environmental Accounting: EMERGY and Environmental Decision Making. Wiley.
- Arènes, A., Latour, B., & Gaillardet, J. (2018). Giving Depth to the Surface: An Exercise in the Gaia-graphy of Critical Zones. The Anthropocene Review.