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1.0 Unrestless Attitudes editorial team
1.0 Unrestless Attitudes IaaC BITS presentation
This editorial-paper –IaaC-BIT 1.0.– wants to present a new “multidocument” platform of cultural exchange – IAAC-bits –, introducing the first issue of this trimestral and polifasic publication. IAAC bits are oriented to an incremented exchange between IaaC research and a more global network of explorations, both contributing today to the further generation of a decisive change of paradigms in the disciplines of the space and habitats. The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia is a cutting edge education and research centre dedicated to the development of architecture capable of meeting the worldwide challenges regarding the construction of habitability in the early 21st century. As a multi-cultural platform for the exchange of knowledge on multiple scales (city, building, manufacturing) and in different areas of expertise (ecology, energy, digital manufacturing, new technologies) IAAC introduces IAAC bits, a collective container of knowledges and materials, stimulating, promoting and developing research in the diverse areas of advanced architecture through a multi-disciplinary approach on both a local and global scale. The IAAC bits seek to collect, investigate and distribute material contributing to the better understanding of the IAAC research lines, keywords and suggestive templates: 1– THEORY FOR ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE; 2– INTELLIGENT CITIES AND TERRITORIES; 3– ADVANCED ARCHITECTURES AND ENVIRONMENTS; 4– DIGITAL DESIGN AND FABRICATION; 5– INTERACTIVE SOCIETIES AND TECHNOLOGIES; 6– SELF-SUFFICIENT LANDS. The IAAC bits also propose a call for content aimed at contemporary spatial practitioners, in particular those belonging to the IaaC Community, inviting them to reflect and discuss these themes, through the proposal of relevant published or un-published material. This material will contribute to the generation, consolidation and diffusion of IaaC knowledge container, hence incrementing and consolidating the IaaC Community. As a periodic multi-media publication the IAAC bits call will be released every 3 months collecting proposals on all of the above themes, these will then be selected and elaborated by the IaaC advisory board into an on-line journal with ISSN, available on the IaaC BITS web platform (www.iaac.net/docs) under the voice IaaC BITS on-line. 2
1.0 Un-restless Attitudes
In this first and poliedric launch edition of the IAAC bits - issue n.1 - the evidence of a new explorative vector orientated to aboard the increasing informational complexity of our time underlies as the driving force. A new “processing gaze”, more receptive and (inter)active: contemporarily intuitive and precise, nervous and lucid. This opens and un-restless attitude - undeniably dynamic, undermining stable and established disciplinary rigidly - decisively expressing the conviction of a new holistic and transversal approach to contemporary phenomena, capable of processing simultaneity - and multiplicity- of relational exchanges that are, today, defining our reality. In this regard, the selection of contributors here proposed, although all from different contexts and backgrounds, share one key aspect: working, processing and developing ideas and concepts placed at the boarders of the most contemporaneous knowledge, but also with-in the conventional limits of the disciplinary fields of space. This underlines the implications of an important challenge, linked with the necessity to be confronted with an evolutional acceleration and an evermore unknown territory, a realm of uncertainly that requires, in order to succeed, a great dose of energy, bravery and positivity. An attitude that is much more than a mere psychological state, or a new “open mindedness”, but rather an operational parameter connected with the understanding of research and investigation as propositional and relational actions that entrust their power in a permanent restless state. In this first edition, we have decided to apply a policy that we will probably also detect in the next editions. Our transversal ambition is not being exhausted in a disciplinary procedure, but we extend this concept in the group of roles that every contribution plays in this cultural challenge. Hence the inclusion of a range of collaborations in which one can find prestigious international personalities and experts, the IAAC faculty expression -and proposition-, and important voices of the IAAC alumni, as fundamental members of its principal ring of complicities. In this respect, we host the vision that knowledge is being produced, not just by consolidated experts, but also by the many talented young energies and researchers that are pushing the borders of this discipline in their daily work. But above all, in this first number we aim to synthesize the general sprit of the IAAC bits, which, beside all that has been previously argued, does not consist in a mere unidirectional platform of IAAC towards the World, but in a meeting point, where knowledge coming from other energies and origins is concentrated. In this regard, we have included diverse content formats, such as articles, interviews, lectures... that confirm that this sharing sprit of common research, together with a new generous and open mentality, defines “simultaneous interchange” as a key parameter, in order to understand and build our contemporaneity.
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IAAC BITS
IAAC
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
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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