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7.0 Cracks editorial team

IaaC Lecture Series Andreas Antonopoulou

Agent-based model S. Roshan & M. Farhadian

The Aesthetics of Sustainability Ilaria Di Carlo

Andreas Antonopoulou is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has become on of the most well-known and wellrespected figures in bitcoin. He is the author of “Mastering Bitcoin”, and “The Internet of Money”.

Shima Roshanzamir and Morteza Farhadian are both architects related to the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Their work focus on Agent-Base models for Landuse Distribution.

Ilaria Di Carlo is an architect and urban planner. Master in Landscape Urbanism at the AA in London, in 2016 she concluded her PHD research in Environmental Engineering at the University of Trento.

Numerical Ecosystems Anna Pla-Català

Interview Ronen Kadushin

Ampleaf IaaC Research

Ronen Kadushin is an Israeli designer and design educator, and he is teaching Open Design courses in universities and speaks at conferences. He is the author of the Open Design Manifesto.

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.

Anna Pla-Català is an architect and urban designer. She has taught in many universities, including institutions such as the Architectural Association, the Insitute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and the University of 2 Westminster.

Superilla Participation IaaC Research

Self-sufficient Platform Vicente Guallart

IaaC Lecture Series Alexei Novikov

Vicente Guallart has been chief architect of Barcelona (2011-2014) founder of Guallart Architects and co-founder of IaaC. Guallart is pioneer of the interaction between nature, technology, urban planning and architecture.

Alexei Novikov is the president of Habidatum (Big Data, Urban Analitics) and Head/Dean of Post-Graduate Studies and Urban Planning. He holds a PhD in Country and Urban Studies from Lomonosov Moscow State Un.

Open Source Beehives IaaC / Fab Lab Research

Acoustic Ecology Carlos Gómez

Self-sufficient Platform Juan Diego Ramírez

Fab Lab Barcelona is part of the IaaC, where it support different educational and research programs related with the multiple scales of the human habitat. It is also the headquartes of the Fab Academy in collaboration with Fab Foundation and Mit’s Center for Bits and Atoms

Carlos Gómez is composer, sound artist, sound engineer and documentary filmmaker. His work, both in artistic research focuses on listening, recording and analysis of the sound landscape.

Juan Diego Ramírez is an architect from Perú. He holds a 2 years Master in Advanced Architecture at IaaC, and his final thesis is the document presented in this edition.

7.0 Cracks

In our last edition (IaaC Bits Edition 6) we replaced the usual reflection around the contrast in between the particularities of each bit and the common background that all of them are sharing, by the notion of X-Crossing. A concept which was emphasising the importance of all those spaces that, as Neutelings was proposing in his publication “The Ring Culture’, are remaining “in between” our Bits and that represent fruitfull and unexplored fields of opportunities to develop. In this edition (IaaC Bits Edition 7) we are not loosing neither the idea of several particularities that share the same “ideological or transversal” vector/s nor the concept of “opportunities” placed in the IaaC Bits crossings. However, we want to pay attention to the notion of “cracks”, and specially to its capacity to break with the conventional approaches that repose in our cultural environment. The idea of cracks -fissures- refers not just to those spacial anomalies placed in any compact body through which air and impurities infiltrate, but to the capacity of these “cracks” to end up eroding the apparently inalterable cohesion of those more apparently stable organisms -or situations- providing them with new, more open and irregular morphologies. But beside this phenomena there is another one related to the notion of “cracks” that is fundamental in this edition: the capacity of the cracks to generate a map. This is probably the concept that interest us the most because it underlines the ability of the cracks to link one another and go beyond what could be otherwise understood as a mere anecdote, that is to say, a singularity without relevance. In this sense, a crack should be understood as a precise, intentional and transgressive shock applied to dormant scenarios, aimed at

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stimulating the present and arousing future spaces. It signifies alternative possibilities -anticipatory lines of research or decidedly innovative projects- and accepts, at the same time, the risk of all hazardous adventures that end up involved in the crack itself. Moreover, it has the ability to “connect” with other cracks, to generate certain complicities, to work as an “oriented team” with a specific goal that requires strategy, project and future vision. And this aspect is exactly the one that we want to underline in this collection. In relation to other editions, it seems obvious that in this group of bits we are not emphasising that much the opportunities generated in between the bits, or the singularities that each bit represent under a common ideological vector, but the subversive power that each of these bits holds and that becomes multiplied when they work as an ensemble. Therefore, what is crucial to keep in mind during the lecture of these 12 documents is the “map” of cracks that it generates on the main stablished cultural domain. Each one of these cracks is a window to a new architectonic, social and technological approach that leads us to participate in the construction of our cultural contemporaneous scenario.

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DIRECTOR:

IAAC SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Manuel Gausa, IaaC Co-Founder

EDITORIAL COORDINATOR Jordi Vivaldi, IaaC bits Editorial Coordinator

EDITORIAL TEAM Manuel Gausa, IaaC Co-Founder Silvia Brandi, Communication & Publication Jordi Vivaldi, IaaC bits Editorial Coordinator

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

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, IaaC Co-Founder Willy Muller, IaaC Co-Founder 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

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

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