Cuckoo

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https://doi.org/10.59490/footprint.19.1.7496

Abstract

Drawing from the imag(in)ing of passing time as a cuckoo’s repetitive passing through a threshold, this article emphasises the active role of repetition in modulating spatio-temporalities and fostering variations. It argues that the systematic organisation and classification of the milieu emerge from the human capacity to perceive and assign differences within the spatio-temporal continuum. This process is enabled by iterative interactions with environmental stimuli, whether immediate or mediated through technological means, serving as an active process of evaluation and unfolding of environmental affordances. In this context, repetition simultaneously serves two seemingly opposing functions: it creates patterns of return to previous encounters while also opening potential lines of flight away from established norms. Intelligence transduces repetition into change, as it evolves through feedback loops, that is, non-linear operations that integrate information across various time scales and through diverse physical mediations, both embodied and exosomatic. As such, intelligence is re-conceptualised not as a state but as a symbiotic, responsive, and anticipatory process that unfolds through failing and adapting to environmental stimuli.

Author Biography

Lena Galanopoulou, National Technical University of Athens

Lena Galanopoulou is a PhD candidate at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and a scholar of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI). She holds an MArch (equivalent diploma, NTUA) in architectural engineering and an MSc in architectural research (at NTUA’s interdisciplinary postgraduate programme, Theory of Knowledge). She is a licensed member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, participating in Panhellenic architectural competitions and with design experience in projects of various scales. Galanopoulou was part of NTUA’s teaching staff for the undergraduate courses of architectural design between 2017 and 2022. Since February 2023, she has been a guest researcher of architecture philosophy and theory (APT) at the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.

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2025-06-20