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 [...]
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Swarm Intelligence
Posted in Ismail Gokhan Catikkas, Workshop Neil Leach Also tagged advanced architecture concepts, architectural theory, Gilles Deleuze, 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 advanced architecture concepts, architectural theory 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, advanced architecture concepts, architectural theory, Architecture, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, morhogenetic process, morphogenesis, on growth and form, parametric design, The Morphological Context of Environmental Architecture Comments closed
the //ArchitectureTechnologyNature// Singularity Point
Where does the environment fit in our contemporary lives?
Posted in Relational Logic - Critical Readings, Ruxandra Iancu Bratosin Also tagged Adres Jaque, Albert Borgman, Architecture, Frank Herbert, Nature, Philippe Rahm Comments closed
Architecture as an intent of Accident, Of Roots, Possibilities, and the Spaces in Between
T6-Sou Fujimoto Of Roots, Possibilities, and the Spaces in Between Sou Fujimoto’s philosophy is defined that architecture and nature have this space in between – a space for people not to just live in but rather to explore and fulfill it by themselves; a space that creates a natural environment and a metamorphic reaction or [...]
Posted in Christoffer Ryan Chua, Relational Logic - Critical Readings Also tagged advanced architecture concepts, architectural theory, Atmosphere Comments closed