in[form]ation
“Sky Chase”, Manuel Presti photographer,
Take a deep breath.
...easy, isn’t it?
Simplicity is a convenient way to look at complexity.
web of metabolic reactions in a human’s lung
Crisis [our] "the 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be" Richard Feynman
Radiohead - “House of Cards� video
"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." Albert Einstein
Environment Environment is still thought in a self-centered way: is man still the measure of all things? Is the world really “in our hands�?
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Change . continuously interacting force fields: change is an unavoidable condition . any change triggers and influences other changes
image captured by a NASA environmental satellite
Variations . we live into gradients and transitions, rarely we have uniform condition
Schlieren photography
vortex speed gradient diagram
Interaction . stimulus-sensibility-response: an external stimulus (exogenous), triggers a complex web of internal processes (endogenous)
. all of these processes are based on information exchange and process (matter – energy exchange).
Chromatophores in action
Information . information is pervasive: every process is based on information exchange (matter-energy exchange)
IBM – “data baby” commercial
Coded information . coded information is explicit and based on conventional codes
ELSE mobile commercial
Embedded Information . in the banana skin, the colour gives us informations about its age and taste
Banana ripening chart
Relations . parts themselves do not posses the properties of the whole . a system is defined by the set of relations among its parts
Hans Hansen: VW Golf smontata, 1988
System . Endogenous: a process or a factor that lies within a system . Exogenous: a process or a factor external to the considered system
Drawing for the Duryea Road Vehicle, 1895
Influence . exogenous and endogenous interact and influence each other mutually. . their operational limits are defined by the territories they are projected into.
Ansel Adams - Extended through
Network “what is most amazing about networks is that they completely transform the way we think about information.” Seed Salon - James Fowler - political scientist “we need to think about networks as a common feature of all complex systems.” Seed Salon - Albert-László Barabasi – physicist
Complexity "Simple elements interacting with simple rules can yield surprisingly complex and elegant outcomes."
“Another Singularity” – Antony Gormley
Nature . not just a picturesque arcadia but a complex adaptive system with plenty of efficient solutions and processes in continuous mutual interaction and evolution.
Metabolism . the set of chemical reactions that happen in living organisms to maintain life.
Image Š Microfield Scientific/Science Photo Library
Computation . AMD Athlon FX-60 (Dual Core) – 22150 MIPS at 2.6 GHz – released in 2006
. Cray Jaguar (1st in rank at Top500 June 2010) - AMD x86_64 Opteron Six Core 2600 MHz (10.4 GFlops), 224162 cores tot: 2.331.000 GFlops . Brain around 20 trillions GFlops
Emergence
Image CORE.FORM-ULA website
Elegance . elegance articulates complexity, making it readable and ordered
Image Š Thomas Shahan
Pattern . patterns are sequences in space and time through which information is recorded.
Digital Tools . digital tools process and store information in the same way nature does, through pattern recognition.
Image Š Alexander Kalachev - diastudioxss09.blogspot.com
Code . a rule for converting a piece of information into another object or action, not necessarily of the same nature or kind
Connections . information is not only volatile, it lies at the bottom of physical things. Digital tools made evident this reality, since they are all about information processing. . the ambition of digital tools in architecture is to build set of relations, which ultimately lead to a digital metabolism.
Image John Locke – “grasshopper final�
Material System
“ISOMALT sugar” on “foodfordesign” blog
Digital fabrication . with digital fabrication the only needed thing is information coded in digital language, going directly from the digital model to the physical construction.
image Š Co-de-iT+Bruno De Masi
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bottom image Š Studio MODE
Generative 1. Having the ability to originate, produce, or procreate. 2. Of or relating to the production of offspring. [The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English]
“Aortic Arc installation” - CCA MEDIAlab
Generation 1. All of the offspring that are at the same stage of descent from a common ancestor. 2. Biology: a form or stage in the life cycle of an organism 5a. a stage or period of sequential technological development and innovation. b. A class of objects derived from a preceding class: a new generation of computers. 6. The formation of a line or geometric figure by the movement of a point or line. 7. The act or process of generating; origination, production, or procreation. [The American Heritage速 Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition, 2000]
Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher - Parametric Urbanism
Process . a series of actions, changes, or functions bringing about a result. [The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition, 2000] . a series of events to produce a result, especially as contrasted to product. [Wikipedia]
Image “helix_breed_energy39048” - Flickr mtchl album
Paradigm shift . design and production shift their goal from a final product to a process
genotype
phenotypes
Image Paramod.net
Paradigm shift
Image Woo Jae's blog
Paradigm shift . from modular (metrics) to parametrics: from the uniform repetition to adapted iteration, sameness is given in the relations and not in the results . from uniform optimization to specific differentiation (population thinking applied through code) . potential emergent properties on the system at larger scale
Image courtesy Marco Verde Eng, MArch
Paradigm shift . code generates developmental landscapes, not forms themselves: openness to a wider chance of success.
Algorithmic Architecture – Kostas Terzidis
Population . custom design is about differentiation and articulation over a population of individuals
Greg Lynn - Alessi Coffee and Tea Towers.
Geometry . tighten up the linkage from design to production . loosen the boundary of Euclidean geometry
Image by Vincenzo Reale – diG.T.A blog
Economy of form . form is cheap, material is expensive
Image Š Grigorii Zotov – Cacti-dew condensation project
Customization . efficient response to complexity . process management and addressing
[c]space Pavillion by Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang
Multi-performance . from “additive� logic to integrated approach
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