Win Tickets To Open Source 2010 In Porto!
Ana 25 de Mayo de 2010 - 12:43 11 comentarios
Attention all Porto-dwellers and beyond! In collaboration with cirdodeideas, we are giving away two tickets to the Open Source 2010 seminar featuring renowned engineer and architect Cecil Balmond, taking place on June 12 from 2:30pm to 8pm at Porto's spectacular Koolhaas-designed Casa da Musica. The seminar focuses on the concept of "open source" in relation to the exploration of architecture through diverse perspectives and professions, and includes speakers from artistic to scientific fields, such as TED speaker and ethno-mathematician Ron Eglash, and Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno.
All you have to do is share with us your best ideas on what "open source" in architecture should mean. Leave your thoughts in the comments section below (you must be registered--it only takes a sec!) and our friends over at ecosistema and radarq, experts as they are on the themes of open source and open city, will help us in choosing the most insightful comments. The lucky winners will be announced by June 4!
To get the juices flowing, here are a few images and recommended posts on the topic:
Sonicity by Stanza
RMIT. Virtual Worlds: Student work from the RMIT, at the SPATIAL INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE LABORATORY (SIAL) PROJECTS. The new thinking process represents innovative chronologies where space and time are constantly reinvented. Virtual Worlds uses a graphical abstraction of RMIT's city campus as an interface to the various activities relating to game design and technology.
The attitude required for healthy urban development is angled towards positive contributions to the city, not mere exposés of existing bad practice, and here we come to the second question of “What kind ofplanning?”Bottom-up implies a more sophisticated engagement with citizens, and from citizens. Genuine engagement in urban development is beyondmanipulating dynamic viewsheds, browsing local census data, and poring over a developer’s financial projections. It means opening up the question of what the city is for to its citizens. It means putting many of the tools for design into the hands of citizens, to construct their own everyday city.
One might even argue for the removal of all planning guidelines and structures. After all, most of the world’s great cities are not the product of planning, no matter how enlightened. Certainly some have been well-formed by benevolent dictators or patrons, yet their personality has come from the slow accretion of individual citizens adopting and adapting those spaces, like ficus thriving on béton brut monuments.
While the history of urbanism is essentially one of creative tension between the grands projets of master-planning and the everyday adaptation of citizens, the behaviour of the latter has parallels in other areas, particularly when seen as a system. In his book Emergence, Steven Johnson describes the processes of the adaptive self-organising systems of ants, brains and cities in similar fashion, and although his metaphors are sometimes stretched beyond breaking point, it still might be more productive to describe these ‘bottom-up processes’ as a form of ‘emergent urbanism’. And in this phrase we would seem to have the promise of open-source operating systems such as Linux, or the distributed knowledge production of Wikipedia.
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Othe recommended readings:
English:
The Emergent City
Architecture communication in the 2.0 web generation
Emergent Urbanism, or ‘bottom-up planning’ by Dan Hill (City of Sound)
Spanish:
Redes sociales, identidad digital y espacio público
Urbanismo, arquitectura y territorio: hacia un modelo de Investigación en Red
So, have your say: What should "open source" mean for architecture? Leave your comments below!
Special thanks to Ethel for the connect and to Pedro Baia of circodeideas, organizers of the seminar, for making this contest possible. Remember to register and invite as many friends as you can to join arkinet! You can send them this link and the one to our facebook page...thank you!
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Sorry for the wall-of-text. I had it separated by paragraphs for better reading, but they were all jammed together upon publication.
I have, for some time now, been researching how can Architecture, and Urbanism, be planned from the starting point of (human) Interactions. In itself a procedure that NEEDS "open source" so that the "projects" do not end upon completion of the building phase as such approaches must morph at the same time that the nature of the Interactions of the citizens change. This deals with the ability an architect has to let go of his own design and allow other people, either expert or layman, to intervene in the built environment he planned. Evolutive Construction is a possibility to some extent of this kind of strategy, but it is still the architect that decides how the building will evolve over time. Is this NEED for control by most architect that I believe goes against an open source theory. Participatory Planning is another of the tools that allow for greater intervention by the future users, and yet it is used more often that not as a bureaucratic marketing technique than an actual valuable contribution to the design process. Open Source Architecture translates into "design by addition" (or subtraction) where each new agent shapes and improves the environment to better adapt to the action that it has to support. This also means that an Open Source Architecture project (besides being never-ending) can also be improved by additions not originated from the traditional construction fields. We have had for a long time publicity billboards in our cities that DO shape the environment but are more "dropped" on location than actually planned. Open Source Architecture is also letting all fields (media, informatics, etc) "build" upon the current state of a given space.
‘Código abierto’ en arquitectura podría ser sinónimo de un método de experimentación proyectual. Me imagino en las escuelas de arquitectura una asignatura llamada ‘Proyectos en código abierto’. Allí los alumnos, en vez de partir de cero, obtendrían una obra propia como resultado de analizar y de hacer evolucionar una arquitectura ya existente. ¿Podría este método dejar de ser experimental y convertirse en real? ¿Existen ya ‘proyectos en código abierto’?
The cost of the ticket is 20€ — we think it is a reasonable price for this seminar. We understand «open» as «freedom to distribute» and not «freedom from cost».
Pensamos la Arquitectura Open Source como una forma de habitar la fluidez del libre Mercado, para permitirnos indagar acerca de como pensar y cómo pensarnos. El interes y el conocimiento sobre lo que implica un espacio y su equipamiento nos lleva a reconocer que la Arquitectura existe entre los humanos y son pretextos que utilizamos para encontrarnos los unos con los otros. Arquitectura Open Source no es otra cosa que facilitar ese encuentro.
cost of the ticket in casa da musica is to high for a conference call open source.... don't you think?
Las cargas, presiones se sobrellevan mejor cuando existe un equipo con diferentes cosmovisiones, es una manera de tamizar los errores dando un alto nivel en cada cosa que hacemos y claro esta en sus procesos. También nos pone a pensar sobre la capacidad de sociabilidad y de integración en un equipo del arquitecto y como él puede poner las condiciones para dejar sus conocimientos de diseño, análisis, técnicos entre muchos más como plus de esta profesión a su entorno complejo y multidisciplinario.
"Open Source" for Architecture should mean that everyone shares ideas with others (without fees) to generate new ideas in order to improve the architecture, that is, the life of everybody.
thx, keep the comments coming! comments in portuguese or spanish are also welcome!
when architecture intersects with all other relevant fields, and when it can be accessed by all
Open source for Architecture should mean affordable access to it.
