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5.0 Enclaves editorial team

Ruled Surface Edouard Cabay

The bottom is not enough Kevin Kelly

Informed Matter Ignacio Borrego

Edouard Cabay graduated from the Architectural Association in 2005 to work for Foreign Office Architects in London, Anorak in Brussels and finally for Cloud 9 in Barcelona. Along side his academic work he is establishing Appareil.

Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/ publisher of the Whole Earth Review. He has also been a writer, photographer, conservationist, and student of Asian and digital culture.

Ignacio Borrego is a PhD architect born in Madrid. Ignacio Cofounded the Studio Dosmasuno Architectos in 2003 and in 2009 the CoLaboratorio

Moss Voltaic IaaC Research

IaaC Lecture Series Fabian Scheurer

Llum 2015 IaaC Research

IaaC is an international centre for Education, Fabrication and Research dedicated to the development of architecture capable of meeting the worldwide challenges in constructing 21st century habitability.

Fabian Scheurer is founding partner of designtoproduction, working with projects like the HungerburgFunicular in Innsbruck (Zaha Hadid), the Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne (SANAA), or the Centre Pompidou in Metz (S.Ban).

Interview Gunter Pauli

Cyber-prosthetic architecture Matteo Cainer

Energy-Exchanging Architecture Robert Douglas

Gunter Pauli obtained his masters in business administration from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. His entrepreneurial activities span business, culture, science, politics and the environment.

Matteo Cainer is a practicing architect, teacher and curator. He is Principal of Matteo Cainer Architects, Co-Founder of the Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture in Lyon, France and Director

Robert Douglas is an architect from Dalhousie University and he got his Master’s Degree in Architecture at IaaC where he has been developping several research activities.

IaaC Lecture Series José Luís de Vicente

Gravitational Poetry José Ballesteros

B.I./O.SMART C. Pasquero and M. Poletto

José Luiís de Vicente is a journalist, and specialized curator in digital culture, art and technology. He is developping several research programs and curating many festivals and exhibitions. He founded Zzzinc.

José Ballesteros is PhD Architect by ETSAM (2004). He is professor in the department of Projects and in the department of PhD at ETSAM. He is working in academics, professional and publications, being the founder and director of the magazine Fisuras.

ecoLogicStudio is an architectural and urban design studio co-founded in London by C. Pasquero and M. Poletto. The studio has built up an international reputation for its innovative work on ‘systemic’ design. The core innovation of the studio has been published in 2012 by Routledge in a book titled “Systemic Architecture”.

5.0 Enclaves

In the last two editions of IAAC BITS (Deployments and Sequences) we explored different methods of dynamic propagation as an informational and spatial process: oriented documents but, also, keywords of new contemporary (and non-linear) urban (and productive) formulations. In this 5 edition, we want to emphasize the notion of “enclaves”, which instead of focusing in the process of evolution or development among the collective, is underlining the importance of a certain “incommensurable” singularity in each of the documents, although inevitably they all partly share a common background. Under the term enclave -understood as a topography of “relief”- we would denominate all these spatial –and conceptual– devices that are formulated as “open-enclosed” landscapes (fields): concentrated eruptions of landscapes inside other landscapes, fields built inside other fields, but also intelectual densifications of developments that celebrate, promote and stimulate ideas and thoughts. Enclaves, therefore, that are seen as configurative (and conceptive) relieves formulated as virtual “topo-tropos” (topologies and topographies in movement) -morphisms, elements that would answer more to compressive and intensive dispositions than to expansive systems: specific folding movements (spatial and conceptual again) that would be destined to host concentrated –enclaved– (dis)positions and orientations. Indeed, what is specific in the notion of enclaves is that these ones would tend to be operations of mixture in between nodes and floors, nets and knots, links and platforms, and, in this sense, they would underline a certain singularity in the notion of dispositive itself.

However, there would still be in them a certain and ambiguous treatment of friction lines, borders and frontiers, “topos” and “tectos”, figure and ground. An elastic and topologic/topographic nature that more than enclosing spaces and separating functions, would prefer to model activities in a fluid environment that is “pinched” by the presence of accumulative folding dynamics. That’s why we would still recognize in them parameters that are strongly related to the kind of dispositions that we have described in other editions: complex geometries, mutable configurations, ambiguous relation figure/ground, and, overall, a certain matrix of interconnections that will still underline its hybrid nature. In this sense, this 5th edition of IAAC-BITS should be understood as a bunch of “enclaves”, a group of “pinches” that although they are produced on the same background, each of them unfolds a certain peculiarity that makes its core a singular element. Each document therefore acts as an enclave of stimuli and conceptual movements, and as a consequence, in this edition we should be able to understand that beyond a certain “common smell” that is able to join each document under the same umbrella, there is a strong singularity in each of them that makes it unique and extremely particular. And is precisely this contrast in between the capacity to link all of them under the same “ideological vector” and the capacity to find in each of them a very peculiar voice that is not just reinforcing the whole but claiming for its own particular presence, where a complex, plural and sophisticated discourse can emerge and strongly position itself in the contemporaneous cultural landscape.

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DIRECTOR:

IAAC SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Manuel Gausa, IaaC Dean

EDITORIAL COORDINATOR Jordi Vivaldi, IaaC bits Editorial Coordinator

EDITORIAL TEAM Manuel Gausa, IaaC Dean Mathilde Marengo, Communication & Publication Jordi Vivaldi, IaaC bits Editorial Coordinator

ADVISORY BOARD: Areti Markopoulou, IaaC Academic Director Tomas Diez, Fab Lab Bcn Director Silvia Brandi, Academic Coordinator Ricardo Devesa, Advanced Theory Concepts Maite Bravo, Advanced Theory Concepts

DESIGN: Ramon Prat, ACTAR Editions

IAAC BIT FIELDS: 1. Theory for Advanced Knowledge 2. Advanced Cities and Territories 3. Advanced Architecture 4. Digital Design and Fabrication 5. Interactive Societies and Technologies 6. Self-Sufficient Lands

Nader Tehrani, Architect, Director MIT School Architecture, Boston Juan Herreros, Architect, Professor ETSAM, Madrid Neil Gershenfeld, Physic, Director CBA MIT, Boston Hanif Kara, Engineer, Director AKT, London Vicente Guallart, Architect, Chief City Arquitect of Barcelona Willy Muller, Director of Barcelona Regional Aaron Betsky, Architect & Art Critic, Director Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Hugh Whitehead, Engineer, Director Foster+ Partners technology, London Nikos A. Salingaros, Professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio Salvador Rueda, Ecologist, Director Agencia Ecologia Urbana, Barcelona Artur Serra, Anthropologist, Director I2CAT, Barcelona

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