here - Department of Architecture, TU Delft

Critical and Clinical Cartographies
Two-day Conference TU Delft 13-14 November 2014
The critical […] and the clinical […] may be destined to enter into a new relationship of mutual
learning. […] In place of a dialectic which all too readily perceives the link between opposites, we
should aim for a critical and clinical appraisal able to reveal the truly differential mechanisms as well
as the artistic originalities. (Deleuze, 1967)
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General Information
Host
Theory Section and Hyperbody, Department of Architecture,
Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment,
TU Delft, The Netherlands
Organising Committee
Heidi Sohn, Henriette Bier, Andrej Radman, Stavros Kousoulas and Jasper Schaap.
Admission Free
Location
Day One: Legermuseum, Korte Geer 1, Delft.
Day Two: Berlagezaal, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Julianalaan 134, Delft.
(Please see the map of Delft on page 7)
Submission
Send your titled abstract (max. 250 words) with five key words, your name,
contact information and institutional affiliation to [email protected]
before October 15, 2014 (e-mail subject: 3Cconference).
Scientific Committee
Heidi Sohn, Henriette Bier, Andrej Radman, Patrick Healy and Stavros Kousoulas
Publication
Eds. Andrej Radman and Heidi Sohn, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam
Speakers
Jenny Dankelman, Christian Girard, Arie Graafland, Keith Evan Green,
N. Katherine Hayles, Frans C. T. van der Helm, Kas Oosterhuis, Antoine Picon,
Rachel Prentice, Sjoerd van Tuinen.
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Call For Papers
The ambition of the 3C conference is to rethink medical and design pedagogies in the context of
digital technologies. Cyber-physical technologies, a current locus of architectural and medical
practices, assist the shift from the physical body to embodiment. Long after its impact on medical
practices, digitalisation further challenges the ecological, economic and aesthetic habits of the
architectural milieu.
Will the practice of cartography help in exploring relations between the human body as an organism
and the machine technologies used both in (medical) care and (architectural) design? Can we map
the ever-shifting thresholds between the organic and the inorganic, the innate and the acquired?
We invite research that approaches the development of diverse cartographic experimentations
which will not render the visible, but render visible.
- How has the concept of EMBODIMENT, or thinking par le milieu, mutated under the exponential
proliferation of digital TECHNOLOGY?
- What is the impact of the ‘digital turn’ on the contemporary medical and architectural education
and/or practice?
- How does the ‘posthuman turn’ influence the possible convergence of medical and architectural
education and/or practice?
- How has the biopolitical concept of CARE mutated under the proliferation of digital TECHNOLOGY?
- What is the role of digital simulations in medical and architectural education and/or practice?
- What is the role of robotics in medical and architectural education and/or practice?
- How has the concept of CARE mutated under the growth of DESIGN culture based on the natureculture continuum?
- What are the main ethical and/or political issues in medical and architectural research given the
nature-nurture continuum?
- How could medical research contribute to architectural design and how could design, in turn,
contribute to the improvement of health care?
- How has the concept of EMBODIMENT mutated under the growth of DESIGN culture?
Submission
Send your titled abstract (max. 250 words) with five key words, your name, contact information and
institutional affiliation to [email protected] before October 15, 2014 (e-mail subject:
3Cconference).
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The conference on Embodiment and Technology and Care and Design is organised by the Theory
Section and Hyperbody of the TU Delft Architecture Department, in cooperation with Industrial
Design Designing Health Research programme, and the Bio Mechatronics and Bio Robotics Section of
the Department of Bio Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft.
What we will be exploring is the relation between the human body as an organism and the machine
technologies used in medical care. In other words we will engage in the practice of cartography in
order to map the ever-shifting thresholds between the organic and the inorganic, the innate and the
acquired. In short, a condition “that is no wider than what it conditions, that changes itself with the
conditioned and determines itself in each case along with what it determines.” This is the
cornerstone of the Deleuzian concept of plasticity.
Medical knowledge has advanced rapidly over the past century and it continues to progress at an
unprecedented speed. The developments in the medical sciences relate to the more theoretical
discourses on ‘man and nature’ in the (new) humanities at large. The two terms are not as innocent
as they might seem and we propose to approach them both critically and clinically. The encounter
comes under the aspects of symptomatology or the study of signs, etiology or the search for causes,
and therapy or the development and application of treatment.
While etiology and therapeutics are integral parts of medicine, symptomatology could be said to
belong as much to design as it does to medicine. The task of the designer is to produce ‘pre-medical’
variation on the one hand and to select and synthesize ‘sub-medical’ variants on the other so that
she may participate in the construction of new possibilities of life. A new mode of existence entails
making life something more than personal and liberating it from what imprisons it. This is the
question of health.
The four panels during the two days will provide for different points of entry to the problem of the
body and its milieux.
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Programme
DAY ONE 13 November 2014
< Legermuseum, Korte Geer 1, Delft>
DAY TWO 14 November 2014
<Berlagezaal, TU-Delft Faculty of Architecture>
09:30
Coffee
09:00
Coffee
10:00-10:15
10.15-10.30
Opening Heidi Sohn (TU Delft)
Opening Henriette Bier
(Hyperbody, TUDelft)
09:30
Panel Three
CARE /DESIGN (PhD Open Call)
Chair
10:30-11:00
Introduction Arie Graafland
(HK University & Anhalt)
Stavros Kousoulas
(TUD)
<Berlagezaal 1>
Keith Evan Green
(Clemson U)
<Berlagezaal 2>
11:00
Panel One
EMBODIMENT /TECHNOLOGY
Chair Andrej Radman (TU Delft)
<45 + 15 min Q&A>
09.30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
Presentation 1A
Presentation 2A
Presentation 3A
Presentation 1B
Presentation 2B
Presentation 3B
11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
12:00-13:00
Antoine Picon (Harvard)
Christian Girard
(École Nationale Supérieure
d’Architecture Paris Malaquais)
12:00-12:30
12:30-13:00
13:00-13:30
Presentation 4
Presentation 5
Presentation 6
13:00
Lunch
13:30
Lunch
14:00
Panel Two
TECHNOLOGY /CARE
14:30
Panel Four
DESIGN /EMBODIMENT
Chair Heidi Sohn (TU Delft)
<45 + 15 min Q&A>
14:30-15:30
Sjoerd van Tuinen
(Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Frans C. T. van der Helm
(TU Delft)
14:00-15:00
15:00-16:00
16:00
16:30-17:00
17:00-17:30
17:30-18:00
Chair Arie Graafland
Rachel Prentice
(Cornell University)
Jenny Dankelman
(TU Delft)
15:30-16:30
Coffee Break
Chair Henriette Bier
Kas Oosterhuis
(TU Delft)
Keith Evan Green
(Clemson University)
Debate
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16:30
Coffee Break
17:00-18:15
Closing Lecture
N. Katherine Hayles
(Duke University)
18:15-19:00
Reception
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Keynotes
N. Katherine Hayles, Professor in the Literature Program at Duke University, she holds advanced
degrees in both chemistry and English. Her interests include digital humanities; electronic
literature, science and technology, and critical theory. (Author and Director) teaches and writes on
the relations of literature, science and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her print
book, How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, was published by the
University of Chicago Press in spring 2012. Her other books include How We Became Posthuman:
Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics, which won the Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary
Theory for 1998-99, and Writing Machines, which won the Suzanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship. She is
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Program in Literature at Duke University, and Distinguished Professor
Emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles
Employing advanced information technologies, particularly robotics, Keith Evan Green investigates
how architecture can behave more like living things in response to human needs and
opportunities. Supported by the National Science Foundation, Green's cross-College, transdisciplinary teams develop, prototype and evaluate "intelligent environments" for an increasingly
digital society. Green is cross-appointed as Professor of Architecture and Electrical & Computer
Engineering, and serves as Director of the Clemson University Institute for Intelligent Materials,
Systems & Environments [iMSE] (www.CU-iMSE.org), a novel research unit partnering
Architecture, Materials Science & Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering.
Antoine Picon is the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology
and Co-Director of Doctoral Programs (PhD & DDes) at the GSD. He teaches courses in the history
and theory of architecture and technology. Trained as an engineer, architect, and historian, Picon
works on the history of architectural and urban technologies from the eighteenth century to the
present. His French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment(1988; English translation,
1992) is a synthetic study of the disciplinary "deep structures" of architecture, garden design, and
engineering in the eighteenth century, and their transformations as new issues of territorial
management and infrastructure-systems planning were confronted. Whereas Claude Perrault
(1613-1688) ou la Curiosité d'un classique (1988) traces the origin of these changes at the end of the seventeenth
century, L'Invention de l’Ingénieur Moderne, L'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées 1747-1851 (1992) envisages their full
development from the mid-eighteenth century to the 1850s. Picon has also worked on the relations between society,
technology and utopia. This is in particular the theme of Les Saint-Simoniens: Raison, Imaginaire, et Utopie (2002), a
detailed study of the Saint-Simonian movement that played a seminal role in the emergence of industrial modernity.
Picon’s most recent book,Digital Culture in Architecture: An Introduction for the Design Profession (2010) offers a
comprehensive overview and discussion of the changes brought by the computer to the theory and practice of
architecture.
Christian Girard is an architect and theoretician practising in Paris. He received his Doctorate in
philosophy from the Université Paris I Sorbonne in 1983. Girard was Professeur d’Architecture at
École d`Architecture Paris-Villemin(1993-1999) and served as Chair from 1996 to 1998. He is a
founding member of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Malaquais, which
opened in 2000, where he is Professor and head of the Digital Knowledge Department. He holds
an Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from Université Paris 8, Philosophy (2012). Works and
projects from Atelier d’Architecture Christian Girard have been exhibited in different museums
and galleries. Both his practice projects and his critical writings have been published in Europe and
worldwide.
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Jenny Dankelman, professor at TU Delft, She obtained her degree in Mathematics, with a
specialisation in System and Control Engineering at the University of Groningen. Her PhD degree
on the dynamics of the coronary circulation was obtained at the Man-Machine Systems Group,
Delft University of Technology (DUT). This work was performed in close co-operation with the
department of Medical Physics of the Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam. She continued her
research at the Man-Machine Systems group and in 2001 she became professor in Minimally
Invasive Technology. In 2007 she became head of the Minimally Invasive Surgery and Interventional Techniques (MISIT)
group. Since 2010 she is head of the Department of BioMechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and
Materials Engineering (3mE) of the DUT.
Rachel Prentice is an anthropologist of medicine, technology, and the body. Her interests focus on
opening up the assumptions and contradictions contained in 21st century North American
biomedicine. Her recently completed project is an ethnographic examination of anatomy and
surgery teaching and the rise of simulators and other technologies for teaching and practice.
Professor Prentice documents how physicians in training come to embody biomedical techniques,
perceptions, judgments, and ethics, learning deeply held medical values while learning to practice
medicine.
Kas Oosterhuis is professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, as well
as director of Hyperbody and the Protospace Laboratory for Collaborative Design and Engineering.
His teaching and research is in the areas of interactive architecture, real time behaviour of
buildings and environments, living building concepts, collaborative design, file to factory
production and parametric design. Born in 1951 in Amersfoort, Kas Oosterhuis studied
architecture at the Delft University of Technology. Afterwards, he taught as unit master at the AA in London. From there,
he worked and lived one year in the former studio of Theo van Doesburg in Paris, together with visual artist Ilona Lenard.
In 1989, he founded Kas Oosterhuis Architekten in Rotterdam (renamed to Oosterhuis Lénárd, or ONL, in 2004). Since
2000, Oosterhuis has been professor of digital design methods at the Delft University of Technology.
Sjoerd van Tuinen, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Man and Culture at the Faculty of
Philosophy. Van Tuinen obtained his first Master’s degree in Sociology (2002), with a specialization
in the Sociology of Culture, and his second Master’s degree in Philosophy (cum laude, 2003), with
a specialization in Philosophical Anthropology. In 2009 he received a PhD in Philosophy from
Ghent University for his dissertation entitled ‘Mannerism in Philosophy: A Study of Deleuze's
Development of Monadology into Nomadology, of Leibnizian Approaches to the Problem of
Constitution, and of Deleuze’s Concept of Mannerism’. In 2008/2009 he worked as a Lecturer in
Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University. His research
interests are in speculative philosophy, aesthetics and social and political theory. He has
authored Sloterdijk. Binnenstebuiten denken (Kampen: Klement, 2004) and edited several books, including Deleuze
Compendium (Amsterdam: Boom, 2009), Die Vermessung des Ungeheuren. Philosophie nach Peter Sloterdijk (Muenchen:
Fink, 2009), Deleuze and The Fold. A Critical Reader (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and De nieuwe Franse
filosofie. Denkers en thema's voor de 21e eeuw (Amsterdam: Boom, 2011).
Frans C. T. van der Helm is professor in Biomechatronics and Bio-robotics, Delft University of
Technology, and also adjunct-professor at the University of Twente, university Leiden,
Northwestern University (Chicago) and Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland). He has a MSc
in Human Movement Sciences (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1985), and a PhD in Mechanical
Engineering (Delft University of Technology, 1991). He was member of the board of the
International Society of Biomechanics (2005-2009), and participated in the board of the Technical Group of Computer
Simulation (TGCS) and the International Shoulder Group (ISG). He is one of programme leaders in the Medical Delta, the
collaboration between Leiden Unversity Medical Center (LUMC), Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam and TU Delft. He is
Principal Investigator in the TREND research consortium (2004-2011), investigating Complex Regional Pain Syndrome as a
neurological disorder, the NeuroSIPE (System Identification and Parameter Estimation in Neurophysiological systems)
program and H-Haptics (Human centered Haptics) program, sponsored by the Dutch National Science Foundation. In 2012
he received an ERC grant for a research project ‘4D EEG’, improving temporal and spatial resolution of EEG source
localization. He has published over 150 papers in international journals on topics as biomechanics of the upper and lower
extremity, neuromuscular control, eye biomechanics, pelvic floor biomechanics, human motion control, posture stability,
etc.
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Map of Venues
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Panel Three Programme
Panel Three
CARE /DESIGN
Chair
Stavros Kousoulas (TU Delft)
<Berlagezaal 1>
Keith Evan Green (Clemson University)
<Berlagezaal 2>
09.30-10:00
1A) The Architecture of Dreams:
Healing addictions with
Transcendental Meditation
Arthur Waisblat
1B) Levels of Adaptivity
Michela Turrin
Rudi Stouffs
Sevil Sariyildiz
10.00-10:30
2A) Delirious Impulses:
Embodiment of Visual Culture
in Spring Breakers
Halbe Kuipers
2B) Strategies for Cyber-physical
Architectural Design to Production
Henriette Bier
Sina Mostafavi
Ana Anton
Serban Bodea
10:30-11:00
3A) Clinical Cartography of Eco-Art
Piotrek Swiatkowski
3B) Developing a software toolkit
for explorative designing, simulating
and prototyping of large-scale
interactive systems
Tomasz Jaskiewicz
Andrei Pruteanu
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11:00
Coffee Break
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<Berlagezaal 1>
12:00-12:30
4) The Immunization of Paris
Robert Alexander Gorny
12:30-13:00
5) On Life Loops and Looping Life:
The Epistemological Implications
of Gordon Pask and Stafford Beer’s
Cybernetic Design Experiments
on Adaptive Controllers
Dulmini Perera
13:00-13:30
6) Augmented Reality:
An Optical Dimension, A Membrane
Katharina D. Martin
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The Architecture of Dreams:
Healing addictions with Transcendental Meditation
Arthur Waisblat
TUDelft MSc Graduating student/ Expl.Lab 17
[email protected]
Abstract
Among the many crises western biomedicine faces today, the issue of drug addiction is probably the most
unresolved one. Not only did the war on drug addicts generated a global failure with increased rates of violence
and criminality, excessive jailing of bottom-scale social class, state corruption and Mafia ownerships, the
present mass over-kill of legalized drugs have reached epidemic levels. Tobacco kills each year the equivalent of
a Nazi genocide, alcohol needs a bit more than two years to equate Hitler, Methadone kills more opiate addicts
than Heroin, but Iatrogenic illnesses at large -illnesses as a result of pharmacological treatment- was estimated
to be THE leading cause of death in the United States in 2006, before cardiovascular diseases and cancers with
more than 784 000 victims a year.
Through the design of an addiction care center in the city of Rotterdam, this research wishes to open widely
new doors present conventions are starting to push forth with timidity. Reconsidering today the therapeutic
value of transcendental states of consciousness over maintenance pharmacology in healing addictions and
Healthcare at large asks for a profound epistemological reconfiguration. Recent advances in
neuroendocrinology and synaptic plasticity thanks to the neuroscientific technological revolution shows that
medicine is at a turning point. In the voices of present pioneers -M.Beauregardz, J.Schwartz, A.Newberg,
B.Lipton, J.Hagelin … - the age of 'Quantum' post-materialism may be about to see birth, a new perspective that
according to its protagonist will most probably have a determinant influence on psychiatry, individual health
and social well-being at large. The consequential implications to spatial politics and the architectural discipline
are crucial.
-Could a noopolitical medical shift that takes primacy in the mind and its subjective intentions over the
exclusively bodily genetic paradigm restore well-being and moral dignity to a suffering minority -addicts- which
human rights are denied most thoroughly in countries where the biopolitical allopathic cure still remains the
predominant leitmotiv?
-Is biocapitalism ready to redefine its relations to both essential and substantial nature through a reconsidering
of the ecological milieu -Gibsonian Affordances over Skinnerian Behaviorism- and its pharmacological
implication -the introduction of entheogenic therapy (Ibogaïne, DMT, Psilocybin ...) -,and thus kill Michel
Foucault once and for all through a definitive end of punishment and a start of holistic and compassionate care?
Keywords
Addiction, Meditation, Biofeedback & Noopolitic, Quantum Neuroplasticity, Paradigm shift
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2A / Berlagezaal 1 / 10.00-10:30
Delirious Impulses:
Embodiment of Visual Culture in Spring Breakers
Halbe Kuipers
Graduate RMa Media Studies UvA
[email protected]
Abstract
In this paper I investigate the embodiment of visual culture in Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers (2013). Gilles
Deleuze's concept of the impulse-image, as conceived of in Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (1985) will function
as degree zero in order to assess a shift in symptomatology. I will argue that the normal working of the impulseimage, based on a 'logic of the fetish' and connected to the symptom of neurosis, traverses into a logic of the
delirium connected to the symptom of schizophrenia. Where the former is exhausting and degenerative
towards affect, the latter, in line with an embodied perspective, opens up to it. And it is precisely this opening
up towards affect that characterizes the embodiment of the ubiquitous screens. This results in a different
relation to the milieux present: Whereas the impulse-image normally exhausts a milieu to subsequently move
onto another milieu to deplete it, here, instead, the milieux explode into a new series. In conclusion, I suggest
that the neurotic, within the violence of affect due to the multitude of screens, makes way for the schizoid,
adhering to a completely different logic.
Keywords
Visual culture, embodiment, impulse-image, Gilles Deleuze, symptomatology.
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3A / Berlagezaal 1 / 10.30-11:00
Clinical Cartography of Eco-Art
Piotrek Swiatkowski
Research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary European Philosophy,
Faculty of Philosophy, Religious studies and Theology, Radboud University Nijmegen
[email protected]
Abstract
Unquestionably one of the main aims of eco-art is critique of humanist worldview. The various experiments
with technology undertaken by various artists contribute to the construction of critical affective relations
towards technology and undermine the sense of control over nature. An example of such an artistic exploration
is the performance of the French artistic duo Art Orienté Objet ‘May the horse live in me,’ during which the
artist Marion Laval-Jeantet is injected with potentially lethal horse blood plasma. The performance provides a
reflection on both the relations between humans and other species and the role of technology in contemporary
culture. This and similar kinds of performances must nevertheless be critically evaluated in order to determine
whether they form a true critique of the humanist worldview and how they contribute to the development of a
critical stance towards technology.
In order to reach such an evaluation I will attempt to draw a clinical cartography of the mentioned performance
by making use of the concepts developed both in psychoanalysis and in Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus. I
will first analyse the role of animals in the life of the patients of Freud and search for similarities with the use of
animals during the performance. Subsequently I will make use of the concept of becoming-animal and argue
that the transgression of the border between the species is more than a meaningless and act of transgression
reached by an Oedipalised, humanist subject.
Keywords
clinical cartography, Deleuze, eco-art, psychoanalysis, becoming-animal.
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4 / Berlagezaal 1 / 12.00-12:30
The Immunization of Paris
Robert Alexander Gorny
Dipl.-Ing. Architecture & Design,
MSc (hons.) The Berlage, Delft University of Technology
[email protected]
Abstract
The last century has given us a vast symptomatology of metropolitan bodies. In the case of the city of Paris,
studies of urban modernization have become abundant in charting the impact of infrastructures and planning of
Haussmann’s transformation of the city; imaging the alienation of individualizing urban forms of life therein; or
mapping the appearance of new spaces of consumption and self-definition (passages and intérieurs). But,
mainly mistaken as separate forms of modernization, these epiphenomena need to be theorized together
through their progressive interiorization of an outside.
This is precisely how Roberto Esposito, in his extended account on biopolitics, uses the clinical concept of
“immunization” to critique a specific form of modernization. The paper will link Esposito with the agential
realism of Karan Barad to refract the well-studied emergence of modern enclosures. She argued that
experimental apparatuses are not tools to discover phenomena, but rather they create new material
arrangements that cause new phenomena. This allows us re-pose, how modern subjectivation becomes
spatially configured within the physical arrangement of the modern city.
By theorizing these interiorizations as counter-actualizations to the folding processes that Deleuze found at
work in the formation of capitalist subjectivity, the paper aims at a new synthetic account on the individualized
and discrete milieu of modernity. The paper concludes to look at a – from this perspective – much more obvious
manifestation of the morphological changes in the immunization of the modern urban body. (235 words)
Keywords
Urban modernization, Interiorization, Arrangement, Agential realism, Subjectivation
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On Life Loops and Looping Life:
The Epistemological Implications of Gordon Pask and Stafford Beer’s Cybernetic
Design Experiments on Adaptive Controllers
Dulmini Perera
PhD Candidate, Architectural History and Theory
Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong
[email protected]
Abstract
In the 1950s and 1960s British cyberneticians Gordon Pask and Stafford Beer created a unique series of
machines called adaptive controllers. On some experiments they looped organic life forms to mechanical
elements hoping to enroll the agency of these naturally occurring self-organizing systems (biological
computers). In other instances this looping encouraged the system to literally grow its own senses (chemical
computing) so they would find their own relevance criteria to solve real world problems such as managing
factories. Although these experiments are mostly forgotten or studied as failed experiments of a digital culture
they provide a unique insight to one of the central concerns of this conference; the need for a design
epistemology that is able to bring, what Gregory Bateson defines as, the logic of life and the logic of technology
in to a point of conversation than separation.
More specifically I will position these experiments within an emerging broader theoretical discussion on post
human life (as discussed by theorists like Rossi Braidotti) and modes of looping life through technology (as
discussed by theorists like these Gregory Bateson, Andrew Pickering, Ranulph Glanville). This on the one hand
offers a redefinition of the notion of design and on the other a radical redefinition of the
designer/controller(machine) which as Gordon Pask says is “no longer the central authoritarian apparatus but
an odd mixture of catalyst, crutch, memory and arbiter.” This in turn will highlight the importance of focusing on
a performative epistemology (as opposed to cognitivist and connectionist models championed by contemporary
digital culture), an emphasis on the causality of coupling in loops (as opposed to the functionalist and
deterministic notions of feedback) and an emphasis on the notions of thresholds and care within these
assemblages of distributed agency.
In so doing the paper will shed light on the potential of second order cybernetics (which was the broader
theoretical context of these experiments) as an alternative epistemological base that allows ethico-aesthetic
encounters between the logic of life and the logic of technology which is much needed within the contemporary
design landscape of the post human.
Keywords
Gordon Pask, Stafford Beer, post humanism, epistemology, controller, machines, life, second order cybernetics
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Augmented Reality:
An Optical Dimension, A Membrane
Katharina D. Martin
PhD candidate in the Department of Aesthetic and Art Science
at the Academy of Fine Art, Münster in Germany
[email protected]
Abstract
In this paper I investigate the specificity of augmented reality used in surgical procedures. I argue that these
digital and graphical technique functions as a membrane between inner and outer, and digital and analoge
milieus. To proceed this research I will introduce the concept of the ‘milieu’ as a methodological instrument and
a concept which enables engagement.
Claude Bernard identified the internal milieu as vital to the stabilization of the organism. The internal milieu,
consisting of blood flow and fluids protects the organs from a dangerous external environment. Every surgical
invasion is breaking these protecting boundaries. To lower the risk, medical science is aiming to find techniques
which enable a secure navigation within the body, without the need for extensive cutting.
The patient and his physical condition will be translated into mathematical information. Based on the collected
data, the algorithm of the software involved generates new graphical information. Together with live video
camera images, the augmented reality allows a surgeon to simultaneously visualize the surgical site and the
overlaid graphic images, creating a so-called semi-immersive environment.
Within these optical dimension one can recognize a certain ecological potential. The graphic of the computer is
basically more text than image and therefore it is a hybrid between the digital form and an affective sensual
appearance. For Deleuze and Guattari milieus are always communication and merging, they are relational and
carrier of forces and effects. These particular computer generated images exemplify one location of
permeability between different milieus.
Keywords
Milieu, Augmented Reality, Digital Media, Medical Science
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Levels of Adaptivity
Michela Turrin
Dr. MSc. Arch., Delft University of Technology, [email protected]
Rudi Stouffs
Assoc. Prof. Dr. ir.; National University of Singapore, [email protected]
Sevil Sariyildiz
Dr. ir., Delft University of Technology and Yasar University, [email protected]
Abstract
Changes are ordinary conditions of life, both in daily life and in a historical perspective. When focusing on
aspects related to architecture, human needs and demands change over time, both in the short and long term.
Also the environment changes over time, including factors that affect daily, seasonal and long term
performances of buildings. However, architecture is traditionally meant as static: an enduring system, sometime
conceived as if it was permanent in a long time and substantially unchanging during its lifetime. When assuming
this perspective, the concept of performance requires finding a balance among the different changing
requirements and/or changing environments. Looking for this balance can be a solution, but it is not the only
one possible. Instead, architecture could be intended as a system able to adapt by changing its status in a
controlled manner. This is the focus of the topic of adaptive architecture. The attention is shifted to the need of
buildings that can be varied, expanded, contracted, moved, terminated or altered in whatever else manner (Zuk
and Clark, 1970), in both long and short term; including the concept of adaptation as an action-reaction
happening in real time. This paper proposes an exploration of today’s state of the art of the domain by
identifying different categories of adaptive architecture. Besides reviewing the existent work, these
categorizations contain original contributions by the authors. Options for interfacing and mediating between
the conditions desired by the users and those present in the surrounding environment will be discussed based
on the interdependence between the varying needs/demands and the capacity of a building to satisfy them in a
changing environment. The paper proposes two criteria of classification: on one hand the way in which
architecture interfaces the changing context and on the other hand the way in which architecture can adjust to
achieve the desired changes. These two aspects are identified as the main steps in which the process of
adaptation can be subdivided. The process of adaptation requires the detection of the contextual changes, a
decision concerning architectural changes eventually needed in order to meet the new conditions, the initiation
of these changes and finally their realization. The paper will relate physical and cyber-physical systems to the
processes of detection, evaluation and initiation (which are considered as a process of interfacing between the
context and the architecture); and to the changes themselves (which are considered a process of adjustment).
Based on the way in which the context is interfaced by architecture, three groups of adaptive architecture,
namely, passive, active and smart adaptive architecture, will be discussed according to the levels of automation.
Further based on the different actions that are automated, three subgroups, namely, sensory, intelligent and
responsive adaptive architecture will also be discussed. Finally, intelligence and smartness in architecture will be
defined and distinguished.ž
Keywords
Adaptive Architecture, Performative Architecture.
3C Conference 15 TU Delft MMXIV
2B / Berlagezaal 2 / 10.00-10:30
Strategies for Cyber-physical Architectural Design to Production
Henriette Bier, Sina Mostafavi, Ana Anton, Serban Bodea
Hyperbody, TUD
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Abstract
This paper presents cyber-physical systems that are developed at Hyperbody TUD and are employed in
construction processes establishing an unprecedented design to production and operation feedback loop
wherein human or non-human (artificial) and virtual or physical agents are incorporated into processes and
environments in order to not only improve design to production processes but also enable time-based,
demand‐driven use of physically built space.
The paper is structured in two sections, the first one presenting a critical review of the state of the art and
proposing a new framework for cyberphysical design to production and operation in architecture, and the
second discussing the proof of concept materialized as a case study on scalable porosity.
(1) Architectural Design to Production and Operation
(2) Case Study: Scalable Porosity
The paper concludes with insights into potential and limitations of proposed architectural design to production
and operation framework and outlines possibilities of development in the future.
Keywords
Cyber-physical systems, Architectural design to production and operation
3C Conference 16 TU Delft MMXIV
3B / Berlagezaal 2 / 10.30-11:00
Developing a software toolkit for explorative designing,
simulation and prototyping of large-scale interactive systems
Tomasz Jaskiewicz
Assistant Professor, Design Techniques Chair, Faculty IDE, TU Delft, [email protected]
Andrei Pruteanu
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Embedded Software Chair, Faculty EEMCS, TU Delft, [email protected]
Abstract
In building automation systems, building control is typically centralized. Developing rich interactions involving
many building occupants and many interactive building elements is highly limited by such system architecture.
Application of large-scale distributed systems to replace centralized systems has been proposed as a promising
solution to this problem. However, to date such systems have only been applied to a small number of
experimental building structures. This situation is partly due to the lack of suitable tools for architects and
interaction designers. To address this problem, we developed a software toolkit permitting intuitive designing,
simulating and programming of large-scale distributed interactive systems in buildings. Over the course of its
development, the software has been applied to projects in several problem areas, iteratively evaluated by
participating designers and incrementally extended and improved. Based on performed surveys, interviews, and
expert-analysis of designed output, we observed that dealing with distributed systems is a highly abstract
challenge for designers. Ability to quickly program and simulate these systems using our toolkit helped involved
designers in gaining some insights into possible distributed system applications. However, only at the stage of
making physical test prototypes designers fully understood and started to creatively explore the potential of the
distributed approach. In conclusion, we present the final version of the software, in which much of the feedback
from designers has been taken into account. Nevertheless, many identified shortcomings have remained
unsolved at this stage. We postulate that the toolkit requires further development and we provide a list of
recommendations for next steps to be taken.
Keywords
Interactive design prototyping, Prototype-driven design, Cyber-physical systems, Distributed systems, Design
methods
3C Conference 17 TU Delft MMXIV