IAAC Spring Lecture Series – Black Ecologies – 2020

IAAC Lecture Series 2019/20 – Black Ecologies Debate
14th May 2020, 19:00 (CET)
The launch of Iaac Bits #9: Black Ecologies, the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia’s Journal co-edited by Actar Publishers, is the occasion to discuss the need to define a new natural environment co-produced by all ecological, biological, technological and cultural agents.

The debate on Black Ecologies book, will introduce the new practices of architecture and urban planning that create ecologies, which, as the title of the book says, are dark, or rather hybrid. These are ecologies that go beyond the traditional dichotomies between interior and exterior, or natural and artificial.

The participants will have the opportunity to interact with the contributors of the book and be introduced in  architectural projects that in a pioneer and experimental way merge humans with robots, biology with artificial intelligence, or nature with technology.

>> more at: https://actar.com/product/iaac-bits-9/

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>> replay of discussion: click

Note: Good to be in the same room with Mitch again! #quarantinelife

Note: Good to be in the same room with Mitch again! #quarantinelife

Also a cameo by Plug-In Ecology!

Unit 2.1, B.L.O.O.M. project / proposals for alternative lighting strategies

Team proposal for an alternative lighting strategy, implemented as a case-by-trial research endeavor. Thankfully, the Mercado la Boqueria had just received fresh shipments of fish, of which we more than eager to stock up on!

The thing about experiments is just that in the word itself—a case of trial and error! We tried. And pretty sure we were the only ones on Earth marinating dead squid in their balconies over the weekend. Anyway, cheers to the b.l.o.o.m. project team!

Micro-Exhibition hosted by Terreform ONE | BASF Creator Space™

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By 2050, there will be more than nine billion people living on Earth, primarily in cities. The needs of the growing world population for good living conditions, energy and food can only be met through innovations. Terreform ONE, a non-profit design group that promotes smart design in cities will host a series of exploratory and radical proposals for development of these smart cities. These proposals address the ecologies of cities, systems and objects at a number of different scales and incorporate contemporary bio-design methods.

A reception with a panel talk about the pieces and the trends they relate to will be held in the evening on May 28.

 

>> More about Terreform ONE

>> REGISTER HERE

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Source: https://creator-space.basf.com/content/basf/creatorspace/en/events/micro-exhibition-terreform-one.upcoming.html

This Is for Everyone: Design Experiments for the Common Good | MOMA

FEBRUARY 14, 2015–JANUARY 01, 2016

ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN GALLERIES, THIRD FLOOR

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MOMA press release:

This exhibition takes its title from the Twitter message that British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) used to light up the stadium at the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Olympic games in London. His buoyant tweet highlighted the way that the Internet—perhaps the most radical design experiment of the last quarter century—has created limitless possibilities for the discovery, sharing, and expansion of knowledge and information.

As we revel in this abundant possibility, we sometimes forget that new technologies are not inherently democratic. Is design in the digital age—so often simply assumed to be for the greater good—truly for everyone? From initial exploratory experiments to complex, and often contested, hybrid digital-analog states to “universal” designs, This Is for Everyoneexplores this question with design works from MoMA’s collection that celebrate the promise—and occasional flipside—of contemporary design.

Organized by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, and Michelle Millar Fisher, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design.

Architecture and Design Collection Exhibitions are made possible by Hyundai Card and Hyundai Capital America.

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OUT OF HAND: MATERIALIZING THE POSTDIGITAL

"In today’s postdigital world, artists are using these means to achieve levels of expression never before possible – an explosive, unprecedented scope of artistic expression that extends from sculptural fantasy to functional beauty.  'Out of Hand' will be the first major museum exhibition to to consider the impact of these new, revolutionary methods of computer-assisted manufacture on fine art, design, and architecture, and will introduce the public to the imaginative expression that these emerging processes enable."

 
 

Volume, Dror Benshetrit, 2009

Subdivided Column, Dror Bes & Michael Hansmeyer, 2010

 

Mathematical Model 009: Surface of revolution with constant negative curvature, Hiroshi Sugimoto, 2006

 

WheelsClawsTeeth, Elena van Gent, 2006

 

Cape and Skirt, Neri Oxman + Iris van Herpen, 2013

Hyphae Pendant Lamps, Nervous System, 2013

 

PHOTOS:  BRENT-SOLOMON.COM