LFU:online

"[...] For the tasks which face the human apparatus of perception at the turning points of history cannot be solved by optical means, that is, by contemplation, alone. They are mastered gradually by habit, under the guidance of tactile appropriation. [...]"

Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

Information Revolution: New Paradigms in Architecture

• THE MEANING OF THINGS
• INTERNET OF THINGS
• INTERNET OF SENSORS
• SMART cities / SMART buildings / SMART anything?
• Networked Architecture - Architectural Networks
• BIG DATA: Virtualization of Architectural Production

RESTAURATION : RESTORATION -> React to the difference!

The appartements in Doris-Day-movies
There, you will find all the stuff that's needed to make your life comfortable, safe, and cosy. Or will you?

The settings and backdrops in Video games
There, you will come across all the things that make life adventurous, challenging and heroic. What do you read from it? Is everything historic to the game's narrative, or is there anything pristine? Can there be anything like a science fiction of art or of architecture?

The Safe Space concept for disputes
There is a treasure in your inner self. Take it or leave it. But how to keep it, and what is your vault? What is its shape and what its concept?

The Internet of Things and the Smart Home
Our Homes are being surrounded by ever higher fences while we are digging tunnels for information influx and network attachment. Can you regain control? What does it do to the concept of "My Home Is My Castle"?

Information Revolution: New Paradigms in Architecture

• THE MEANING OF THINGS
• INTERNET OF THINGS
• INTERNET OF SENSORS
• SMART cities / SMART buildings / SMART anything?
• Networked Architecture - Architectural Networks
• BIG DATA: Virtualization of Architectural Production

Research and Case Studies related to the topics listed above:  
Contemporary Utopias und Projects...
--> have become possible by digitalisation on all levels of architectural production.

(What levels, which processes exactly?)

What cannot be digitised (without effort -- or can it?):

Intellectual concepts: ...

Emotional concepts: ...

--> EVIDENCE!

Subversive?

--> "Guerilla Prototyping/Guerilla Manufacturing"

Extrapolation of observed developments (hyperbolic)--> evaluation?

Attributs of "architecture" and its prduction:

--> GOOD...???

--> BAD...???

"For the tasks which face the human apparatus of perception at the turning points of history cannot be solved by optical means, that is, by contemplation, alone."

Literature:

BENJAMIN Walter, " The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936)

analytical research / discursive reflection and discussion

Seminar /UE

Introduction: Monday, March 6 ^th 2017, 2:15 p.m. @ studio2. Weekly