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ItemFrom Medium Specificity to Medium Technicity(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-10) Abrioux, YvesThe notion of pure or 'specific' media, which was highly influential in defining the moment of modernism, had the effect of foregrounding the expressive possibilities of any given medium, beyond that of abstract painting to which the term medium specificity originally applied. Its continuing relevance is anything but obvious in a 'post media' world in which digital media have developed the capacity to subsume all other technological media-and indeed promise, in some readings, to provoke the disappearance of media (and the human) as such, in favor of the autonomous proliferation of self-sufficient data streams. A concept of medium technicity can, however, be derived from the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon's analysis of the history of technology, that allows for an intensification of the capabilities of media and underlines their continued relevance in an environment in which binary code is held to reign supreme.
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ItemThe Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-10-18) Rose, Jonathan F. P.In the vein of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser’s Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose—a visionary in urban development and renewal—champions the role of cities in addressing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the twenty-first century. Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity—and by 2080 will be home to 80 percent of the world’s population. As the twenty-first century progresses, metropolitan areas will bear the brunt of global megatrends such as climate change, natural resource depletion, population growth, income inequality, mass migration, and education and health disparity, among many others. In The Well-Tempered City, Jonathan F. P. Rose—the man who “repairs the fabric of cities”—distills a lifetime of interdisciplinary research and firsthand experience into a five-pronged model for designing and reshaping cities with the goal of equalizing their landscape of opportunity. Drawing from the musical concept of “temperament,” Rose argues that well-tempered cities can be infused with systems that bend the arc of their development toward equality, resilience, adaptability, and well-being, to achieve ever-unfolding harmony between civilization and nature. While these goals may never be fully attained, if we at least aspire to them, and approach every plan and constructive step with this intention, our cities will be richer and happier.
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ItemToward An Urban Ecology(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-10-12) Orff, KatePart monograph, part manual, part manifesto, Toward an Urban Ecology re-conceives urban landscape design as a form of activism, demonstrating how to move beyond familiar and increasingly outmoded ways of thinking about environmental, urban, and social issues as separate domains; and advocating for the synthesis of practice to create a truly urban ecology. The book depicts a range of participatory and science-based strategies through the lens of SCAPE’s practice, featuring projects, collaborators, and invited essays on urban ecological design.
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ItemArchitecture and Humanism: Three Projects, Three Places(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-10-07) Cadrecha, ManuelFor Manuel Cadrecha, architecture and humanism centers man and his values in each design effort. With this approach and explorations of timeless issues (like culture, identity, perception and the search for beauty), three diverse projects will be shared. Each designed through an empathetic, integrated and interdisciplinary creative process that has yielded remarkably different but equally responsive design solutions.
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ItemCreating Transformational Spaces(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-09-23) Hatfield, Erleen
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ItemSmart Cities(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-09-16) Clark, Jennifer ; Martin, Torri ; Shelden, Dennis R. ; Williams, SarahThis panel explores the many facets of academic, professional and technology development interest in Smart Cities - places where the forces of changing demographics, culture, economics, infrastructure and information converge to become the 21st century places of cyberphysical experience.
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ItemTransformative Energy: Energy Sources Integrated into Military Installation Design( 2016-05-04) Campbell, Ira Lee, Sr.Can a military installation create clean energy for itself? Although this is a great question, the reality is that with huge power demands, the piezoelectric systems that would be installed would only provide a small percentage of power to the base and not 100% of the power requirements. But if these energy harvesting systems could provide 27-42% of the base's power then these systems would be a tremendous success. And by integrating this system into a base design could serve as a prototypical model for civilian communities and cities.
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ItemWhere We Want to Live( 2016-04-15) Gravel, Ryan AustinRyan Gravel, author of the original Georgia Tech thesis that initiated the Atlanta Beltline, presents his new book, “Where We Want to Live – Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities,” which investigates the cultural role of infrastructure. By invoking examples as wide-ranging as the small and elegant High Line in New York City to the revitalization of the vast and unruly Los Angeles River, Ryan describes how people everywhere are already reclaiming obsolete infrastructure as renewed conduits of urban life. More than discrete projects, he argues, they represent an emerging cultural momentum that will require us to forget tired old arguments about traffic, pollution, blight, and sprawl, and instead leverage those conditions as assets in the creation of something far more interesting than anything we’ve seen so far.
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ItemAdaptation and Transformation(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-03-30) Haworth, GrahamThe work of London based architectural studio Haworth Tompkins is founded on the belief in the potential of new architecture to bring about positive change. In this talk, founding Design Director Graham Haworth outlines the studio’s design approach through an exploration of their working practice of Adaptation and Transformation, illustrating how their architecture aims to create a freedom to move between Lo-Fi and Hi-Fi and engage with the more ambiguous and less precise areas of reality, through thoughtful adjustment, remodeling and recalibration with the occasional technical flaw, distortion, background noise and hum.
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ItemMachine Epistemology(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-03-11) Dickey, RachelThe Machine Epistemology lecture will introduce a collection of projects, developed as part of research and practice, which attempt to demonstrate the potential of epistemic design agency. Adopting the machine as a theoretical way of framing the discussion, the intent is to outline what types of knowledge architects have historically sought to acquire, in order to question what the knowledge culture of design is and what it ought to be.