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Strip Morphologies 001

-Parametric exploration; manipulation of polyline control points.

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Nervous System Lecture

Jessica Rosencrantz & Jesse Louis-Rosenberg of Nervous System spoke on Growing Objects at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design Lecture Series on November 1, 2011. -Source -Nervous System

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The Complex and the Singular

The Complex and the Singular ..excerpt from Sanford Kwinter’s, Architectures of Time To understand the precise mechanics of how a form may be “time- and difference-generated” –or actualized in the jargon of the present argument — consider the example of the domestic ice cube versus the free-form snow crystal. Is time real for the cube […]

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Concept Installation: Batt-Surface

-Concept installation; lightweight parametric surface undulating above a thick atmosphere induced with varying luminous layers.

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Daisy Ginsberg: Synthetic aesthetics

Daisy Ginsberg, designer, artist and writer, explores the social, ethical and cultural implications of emerging technologies, especially synthetic biology. Her projects open up a creative space to imagine the potential scientific triumphs and disasters on the horizon. -Synthetic Aesthetics

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Thoughts on eVolo

As I look through the previous winning and submitted entries to the eVolo skyscraper competition I cannot help but feel the plasticity and corporatization of a competition whose topic of discourse weighs so heavily on the importance of possible future city dwelling scenarios. In contrast to truly challenging multiple aspects of vertical dwelling, entrants are […]

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Robert Somol | UofM Lecture Series

Robert E. Somol is the appointed Director of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture in 2007 and an internationally recognized design theorist. Somol was most recently Professor in the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University and Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Architecture, and taught design and theory at […]

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Eco_Logics | Helene Furjan

In the simplest terms, the radicalization of Matter requires three recognitions; that matter is from the beginning irreducibly sensate and responsive; that at every scale sensate, responsive matter organizes itself hierarchically into discrete, irreproducible configurations with specific emergent behaviors; and that all discrete material configurations any and every moment and any and every scale further […]

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Proposal 4.00

As our built environment pushes out further into the terrestrial landscape, with over 70% over the Earth covered in oceans and human population increasing exponentially, populations may soon bulge outward to inhabit aquatic environments. Presently we see global climates changing the oceans natural barrier reefs, where human populations are stepping into infill these tidal zones–not […]

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Noosphere 5.0

That the internet lacks organization and structure to the point where it’s disorganization requires search engines to sift through countless numbers of pages to arrive at the sites whose interconnectedness is the most densest matching the search criteria is a problem that can perhaps be achieved spatially. Emergent systems, such as brains, cities, cells and […]

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