During the reading of Alison Smithson article I went deeper in understanding what does it mean “knowledge in nature”. In fact Saint Jerome during his live was addicted (if it possible to say like this) to knowledge, but because of time when he lived in some moments it was difficult. Then through time different painters [...]
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Swarm Intelligence
David Castro taking a shot at an awesome courtship swarm of Bigeye fish at Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Caption provided by Octavio Aburto (via National Geographic Photo Contest 2012) A critical analysis of the book Swarm Intellignece – Neil Leach, Roland Snooks What to underline The bee builds the next cell starting on [...]
Posted in Ismail Gokhan Catikkas, Workshop Neil Leach Also tagged architectural theory, Gilles Deleuze, iaac, neil leach, rhizome Comments closed
Microstupidity renders macrointelligence
LOCAL INTERACTION + INPUTS OF GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE (THE PLAYER) The video game Lemmings has the basic idea, lemmings have no brains, they have no decision-making mechanisms and for that reason the player has to assing the lemmings some tasks, as they walk constantly around. If there is a stair, they climb, if there is [...]
Posted in Digital Logics - Critical Readings, Ismail Gokhan Catikkas Also tagged architectural theory, iaac Comments closed
MORPHOGENESIS
“Branching Morphogenesis” is at Ars Electronica, a museum of digital and media arts, in Linz, Austria ‘… the form of an object is a ‘diagram of forces’… D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Posted in Digital Logics - Critical Readings, Sinem Samanci Also tagged advanced architecture, architectural theory, Architecture, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, iaac, morhogenetic process, morphogenesis, on growth and form, parametric design, The Morphological Context of Environmental Architecture Comments closed