vídeo: palestra Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen - Modelling complexity: how the digital expands the material // Bartlett International Lecture Series 2014/15 (semana 09)

Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen // Bartlett International Lecture Series 2014/15 // from Bartlett School of Architecture on Vimeo.

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Modelling complexity: how the digital expands the material
11.03.2015
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Computation challenges our material traditions. Rather than understanding materials as categorised and static – the computation and calibration of material behaviour allows us to understand and design for the performative aspects of materials.

In this lecture Mette will show recent work from CITA's (Centre for Information Technology and Architecture) portfolio. She will present research into computational design with focus on material performance questioning how computational strategies such as learning algorithms and multi-scalar material modelling can provide new models for thinking our design space.

Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen is an architect working with digital technologies. Her research centres on the relationship between crafts and technology framed through 'Digital Crafting' as way of questioning how computation, code and fabrication challenge architectural thinking and material practices. Her work is practice lead and through projects such as The Rise, Shadow Play, Thicket, Strange Metabolisms and Vivisection she investigates the design and realisation of a behavioural space.

Mette is professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, where she heads CITA.

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vídeo: palestra Michael Silver - Co-robotics, Composites and High-performance Computing // Bartlett International Lecture Series 2015/16 - (semana 05)

Michael Silver // Bartlett International Lecture Series 2015/16 // from Bartlett School of Architecture on Vimeo.



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Co-robotics, Composites and High-performance Computing
20.01.16
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Can architects contribute to the evolution of new tools and the construction systems used to make buildings? This lecture explores three emerging technologies and their design consequences.

Michael Silver teaches architecture at the University at Buffalo where he co-founded SMART, a multidisciplinary design community dedicated to the development of new ‘Sustainable Manufacturing and Advanced Robotic Technologies’. In collaboration with computer scientists and engineers, he continues to work at a variety of scales and has extensive experience in the production of furniture, digital construction systems and buildings. As an experimental collaborator, Michael is deeply committed to the precise alignment of advanced technology, critical theory, and architectural poetics. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan, the IDC in Nagoya Japan, and the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. He built his first working robot arm out of Scotch tape and Spirograph parts at the age of 14.

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A palestra está com um áudio muito baixo, mas com uma boa caixa de som é possível acompanhar.

A parte mais interessante da palestra para mim foram as perguntas e respostas que começam após cerca de 30 minutos. Infelizmente nem todas é possível escutar quem está perguntando, mas algumas questões acerca das implicações sociais do possível desenvolvimento e implementação das tecnologias que foram levantadas (como co-robotics) e afirmações sobre o palestrante sobre aspectos de inteligência artificial robótica (onde ele sugere ler o artigo de 1974 What Is it Like to Be a Bat?)

(Talvez tenha sido particularmente interessante para mim agora, porque eu assisti essa semana passada o filme Ex Machina, que aborda justamente AI, e, para mim, deixou um pouco a desejar no sentido de roteiro/discussão)

documentário: The Century of the Self - Adam Curtis (2002)

Acabo de assistir três episódios do documentário produzido por Adam Curtis para BBC, The Century of the Self. O quarto e último deixo para amanhã pelo avançado da hora... Sugestão dessa série foi feita na aula de Teoría Crítica da Produção do Espaço Arquitetônico que eu cursei semestre passado. Realmente super interessante e recomendadíssimo.

EDIÇÃO: Terminei de ver no dia seguinte. A série toda é muito interessante, me deixou curiosa com o que seria a sequencia, já que o documentário já é relativamente antigo (14 anos atrás)

vídeo: palestra Adam Greenfield // Bartlett International Lecture Series 2015/16 - (semana 04)

Adam Greenfield // Bartlett International Lecture Series 2015/16 // from Bartlett School of Architecture on Vimeo.

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Another City Is Possible: Practices of the Minimum Viable Utopia 25.11.2015 //////////////////////////////////////////////////

Adam Greenfield discusses alternatives to the current dominant conception of technologised urbanity, specifically four aspects involved in the production of networked urban environments from the bottom up: people making data, people making things, people making places and people making networks.

Adam Greenfield is author of Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing (2006), Against the smart city (2013) and The city is here for you to use (forthcoming from Verso). His practice Urbanscale is dedicated to design for networked cities and citizens. Previously a Senior Urban Fellow at LSE Cities, Adam now co-teaches on the Bartlett School of Architecture's MArch Urban Design cluster 'Architectures of Participation' with Usman Haque.

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Palestra em uma linha similar da apresentação do Dan Hill, tratando da questão de Big Data e Smart Cities (e também com a palestra que eu assisti final do ano passado na UFMG com o professor Alessandro Aurigi)

vídeo: apresentação Dan Hill - Designing the Data City // FESG Signals of Tomorrow Conference (semana 02)

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