-Images from testing of the fibrous scaffolding system.

-Responsive to atmospheric conditions, chemicals (dimethyl sulphide) released from the epidermal layer growing from the scaffolding induce the formation of clouds, braiding the sky as the scaffolding begins to manipulate weather patterns.

Final fabrication peices from Maciej Kaczynski’s Digital Fabrication class at the University of Michigan. “The class was taught in tandem with David Pigram’s Rhinoscript class. The student groups were made up of student’s enrolled in both classes – so each project was scripted and fabricated out of steel or aluminum. I thought the work was […]

Where are we humans going, as a species? If science fiction is any guide, we will genetically evolve like in X-Men, become genetically engineered as in Gattaca, or become cybernetically enhanced like General Grievous in Star Wars. All of these may well be part of the story of our future, but I’m not holding my […]

The world seems to be less predictable these days, with political and social unrest, a slowly recovering economy and a changing climate. Futurists predict faster changes in the next 20 years, with large impacts on economy, sociology and our daily life. The trends with the biggest influence are reworking our financial systems, the need to […]

2011 CONFERENCE THEME The ACADIA 2011 Annual Conference will explore integrative trajectories and areas of overlap that have emerged through computation between design, its allied disciplines of engineering and construction, and other fields, such as computer science, material science, mathematics and biology. The conference will highlight experimental projects in which methods, processes, and techniques are […]

-505 Research Pamphlet: Interconnected + Technologically Enhanced: Posthumanism, Cyborgs, and Interconnected Bodies. Download for free here.

Neurophysiology of the Eye/Brain System – Dr. Nikos Salingaros Starting from a light-sensitive spot on protozoans and primitive worms capable of judging direction, the primitive eye developed a sense for various degrees of light intensity so as to perceive distance, or the shadow of an aggressor. Movement detectors, requiring first and second derivatives of the […]

-Searching for representational strategies to diagram the processes, materiality, and posthuman ideologies. This representation begins to create a taxonomy of the ideas and processes surrounding the scaffolding and bionic landscape. Ephemeral qualities of transience, growth, morphology and time still remain hidden as they refer to micro and macro processes occurring within the generation of the […]

Post-humanism, Cyborgs + Interconnected Bodies A505 Interconnected + Technologically Enhanced Seminar The post-human by definition is a “speculative being that represents or seeks to enact a re-writing of what is generally conceived of as human, where human nature becomes a universal state from which the human being emerges; human nature is autonomous, rational, capable of […]