Emergent Urbanism: Intensive Fields Conference 2009

25/08/2010

Intensive Fields Conference 2009

The "Intensive Fields" conference was held in December 2009 and provided a discourse regarding the use of computation and parametric techniques as a means of addressing the design of large urban developments.

"For some time now, digital technologies have had a substantial impact on architectural design. From the use of standard drafting packages to the more experimental use of generative design tools. But how might these digital technologies – and parametric design tools in particular – help us to design cities?
The conference was organized around a series of forums. Main speakers, Manuel DeLanda, Roland Snooks, Marc Fornes, Casey Reas, Francois Roche and keynote speaker, Patrik Schumacher, presented their papers, and then were joined in debate by a range of other experts"

To watch all the presentations from this conference for free see PARAsite

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Agenda

The term ‘emergence’ has become ubiquitous within architectural and urban design due to the increasing integration of design and computation. We now understand urbanism as a complex system, existing in many composite parts which operate simultaneously to achieve ‘successful’ formal and behavioural interrelationships; subsequently we demand new methods for conceiving and controlling urban space.

We are concerned with brand-driven urban developments, privatised corporate initiatives, total surveillance technologies and viral ‘policy driven’ urban strategies that pose profound and disturbing trajectories for our contemporary urban environment. We seek ‘bottom-up’ design systems, performance-based spatial ecologies and ‘emergent’ urban morphologies as a means of re-generating failing urban environments.

We explore computational design methodologies including parametric modeling, generative design and interactive design systems through studio workshops, questioning how such technologies and novel methodologies can successfully impact the design and operation of urban systems - environmentally, economically and socially. We examine complex dynamic systems and latent networks that underpin urban structures; focusing on the spatial and performative implications of ‘encoded’ design systems and calling into question the use of collaborative, democratic and open source control as a means of shaping urban experience.

The design studio is an experimental research laboratory for the analysis, modelling and prototyping of emergent, performative structures.