Theory | Online Workshop | English | North-South Americas
Description:
Design theorist and writer Sanford Kwinter invites you to join him and a series of friends - and friends of friends - to assess and engage a variety of positions that may have fallen off the radar of designers but which are gaining significant traction almost everywhere else that matters. So too he will invite you to assess new important agenda now appearing on the radar. Kwinter will hold court in the company of Digital Futures co-founder Neil Leach, as well as emerging voices Marina Rodriguez das Neves and Viktoria Luisa-Barbo to consider just what does and what does not merit attention by designers today, beyond the rote platitudes and political bromides that are taking hold of public consciousness.
They will be joined by a range of leading architects, artists, designers and thinkers. Invited guests include architect Aleksandra Jaeschke, designer Bruce Mau, artist-theorist Brian Boigon, space architect Barbara Imhof, and various AI artists, neuroscientists, thinkers and provocateurs.
Key Words:
theory,environment,intelligence,indigenous
Required Skills:
unbounded optimism; unbounded pessimism
Required Software:
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Required Hardware:
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Maximum number of participating students:
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They will be joined by a range of leading architects, artists, designers and thinkers. Invited guests include architect Aleksandra Jaeschke, designer Bruce Mau, artist-theorist Brian Boigon, space architect Barbara Imhof, and various AI artists, neuroscientists, thinkers and provocateurs.
Schedule:
Jun 27 - Jul 3
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Day 1 / Jun 27
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Day 2 / Jun 28
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Day 3 / Jun 29
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Day 4 / Jun 30
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Day 5 / Jul 1
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Day 6 / Jul 2
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Day 7 / Jul 3
Instructors:
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Neil Leach FIU/Tongji/EGS,Director of Doctor of Design ProgramNeil Leach is an architect and interdisciplinary scholar. He currently teaches at Tongji, EGS and FIU, where he is the Director of the DDes program. Previously he taught at the AA, Harvard GSD, Columbia GSAPP, Cornell, SCI-Arc, USC, Nottingham, Bath, Brighton, IAAC and DIA. He holds MA and Dip Arch degrees from Cambridge, and a PhD degree from Nottingham. Neil Leach has published over 30 books on architectural theory and computational design, translated into 6 different languages. Along with Philip Yuan, he was the initiator of the DigitalFUTURES project in 2011, and is currently a member of the organisational team for InclusiveFUTURES. He has served as Director of the American Academy in China, and undertaken research for NASA into the development of 3D printing technologies for the Moon and Mars. He is an academician within the Academia Europaea, Europe’s leading scholarly academy that counts among its members over 50 Nobel Laureates. He is currently working on 3 books on AI, the first of which, Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects, will be published in the autumn. -
Sanford Kwinter Pratt Institute ,Professor of Science and DesignSanford Kwinter is Professor of Science and Design at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture and Honorary Professor of Theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. His books include Architectures of Time: Towards a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture (MIT Press, 2001), Far From Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture (Actar, 2008), Requiem: For the City at the End of the Millennium (Actar, 2010) and the forthcoming What Is Energy and How Else Might We Think About It?. -
Viktoria Luisa Barbo Resonant Matter ,PrincipalViktoria Luisa Barbo is the principal of Resonant Matter. Her work focuses on ideas surrounding the cultural and spatial effects of perception and ecology. With a technical foundation in Architecture & Art, from the Bauhaus in Germany and Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, Viktoria has previously worked for internationally acclaimed offices in Japan, America, and Germany, as well as a visiting critic at Columbia GSAPP, SCI-Arc, UT SOA, U Mich, and Pratt Institute. -
Marina Rodriguez das Neves Universidad Nacional de La Plata / Florida International University,Assistant ProfessorMarina Rodríguez das Neves is a Doctor of Design candidate at Florida International University (FIU). She earned her Masters degree in the History and Culture of Architecture and the City from Torcuato Di Tella University in 2020, and her Undergraduate degree in Architecture from the National University of La Plata (UNLP) in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2010. She has taught courses in Architectural Design, Theory and History of Architecture at the UNLP and the Master’s Project course at FIU. She has also been a member of the DigitalFUTURES Young committee since 2020. Marina’s interests have focused on architectural design, critical theory and philosophy. Her Masters dissertation, “History as Invention: Architecture of Mobile Artifacts”, was recommended to be published. Marina’s work examines emerging technologies residing at the interface of digital and material processes. She has won several architectural competitions in Argentina and Russia. Her professional and theoretical work has been presented at numerous conferences, art galleries, exhibitions, books and scientific publications.