“Automation in Development“ - March 2, 2022

Architecture has often been related with construction, development, and growth. Its socialist version is often identified with developmentalism; while its capitalist version is often identified with object oriented desire. Architecture’s most ecological versions, have been often identified with recyclable materials, net zero, positive energy production but mostly about adding to the built environment. In urban terms, socialism identified relationships between class struggle, labor and production. The urbanism of capitalism identified the city as business and economic growth through real estate speculation. Urbanism’s most ecological version could be identified with a circular economy and ecological induction.

But these options seem to offer limited ranges of possibilities that are not correlational with the set of crises we are facing nor the horizon of what is anticipatory possible. How can architecture activate the void against notions of built environments? Architecture can be thought as reading, understanding, and deviating environmental forces expanding relationships between spaces and environments. Architecture can be thought as activating voids, recycling existing built environments, and activate latent ecologies rather than adding to the built environment. But how can architecture construction or deconstruction be through all together in relation to the energy and social crises we are facing? How can architecture be thought in terms of the environmental evolutionary logic, such as environmental processes for passive energy and growth/healing for materials? How can architecture be thought as minimal interventions in relation to maximum possible social and ecological commons? How can automation, innovation, decentralization, and community emancipation be understood in relation to current technologies such as blockchain, automation, simulation, and robotic construction/deconstruction?

The event will discuss the work of radical innovative architects in which environmental, economic and social communities issues are related to notions of automated construction devising notions to expand current possible commons.

MS in Architecture, Computational Technologies Program Lecture
Automation in Development through Collectives

Introduction and moderation:
Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Director, MS in Architecture, Computational Technologies Program (MS_ACT) SoAD at NYIT and Sandra Manninger, Assistant Professor, MS ACT, SoAD at NYIT

Speakers:
“Second Copernican Revolution”
Neil Leach, Director, FIU DDes

“Site Surveying”
Maider Llaguno-Munitxa, Assistant Professor UCLouvain

“Designing Behaviors”
Evangelos Pantazis, IBI Group / Topotheque Design Research

“Natural Smartness: A new Era in Sustainability”
Hanaa Dahy, Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. M.Eng. Arch. Hanaa Dahy, BioMat Director at ITKE, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Stuttgart.

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