Emergent Urbanism: Open

26/08/2010

Open_sailing

Open_Sailing 4' concept from Cesar Harada on Vimeo.
http://opensailing.net

We need several International Ocean Stations. We need better semi-permanent inhabitable structures to host research in the deep sea. We like to compare the IOS to the International Space Station. It took decades and 150 Billion $ to world rocket scientists to build the the ISS, to produce semi-secret data. We believe that is a few years, with a limited budget we can build together several International Ocean Stations as open-source architectures. Get on board.

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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.