Theory | Online Workshop | English | North-South Americas
Description:
The field of the thus called digital practices encompass a wide spectrum of extremely disparate sensibilities, techniques, materials and agendas. Although somewhat novel, in the constant decision making that involves the projection of ideas and procedures into the future, a number of affiliations with lines of thought (sometimes made explicit, sometimes left unconscious) lay hidden underground, as threads connecting to a series of latent lineages of architectural production, which we will call phylum. Through the research of the workshop, the well-known deleuzian concept will guide the configuration of a particular plane of immanence, operating within the digital, and yet transcending its broad generality.
The workshop will be, for this purpose, organized in two phases. On the one hand, we will discuss a series of projects from the last twenty-five years of digital production, and, on the other, we will configure assemblages based on the study of their traits of expression, operating beyond authorial, institutional, or chronological determinations. Across these constellations, and with the objective to identify conflicts, affinities, and redundancies, we will draw phyla, a series of lines that “cut across them all, taking leave of one to pick up again in another, or making them coexist”. Where there is a formless set of juxtaposed individuals floating within a generic framework, we will assemble a consistent multiplicity.
In the first session, the instructors will provide a Miro board with an initial configuration of the plane based on a survey of the production coming from the last edition of Digital Futures. Students will develop research out of these materials, and will progressively introduce new relationships, incorporating content into the board between sessions. This content and assemblage will focus the discussion as a kind of real-time editing of the board. We will aim at speculating on the nature of what is usually called digital production, dissecting trends from one another, and discussing why they do what they do, and in which theoretical framework they are embedded. The workshop will thus build up positions within the field.
Key Words:
Phylum,Trait,Assemblage,Digital Production
Required Skills:
Capacity to conduct rigorous yet agile research, capacity to evaluate fields of information and conceptualize them into synthetic categories, capacity to edit images and drawings, capacity to discuss content with open-mindedness and intellectual generosit
Required Software:
Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop
Required Hardware:
None
Maximum number of participating students:
16
The workshop will be, for this purpose, organized in two phases. On the one hand, we will discuss a series of projects from the last twenty-five years of digital production, and, on the other, we will configure assemblages based on the study of their traits of expression, operating beyond authorial, institutional, or chronological determinations. Across these constellations, and with the objective to identify conflicts, affinities, and redundancies, we will draw phyla, a series of lines that “cut across them all, taking leave of one to pick up again in another, or making them coexist”. Where there is a formless set of juxtaposed individuals floating within a generic framework, we will assemble a consistent multiplicity.
In the first session, the instructors will provide a Miro board with an initial configuration of the plane based on a survey of the production coming from the last edition of Digital Futures. Students will develop research out of these materials, and will progressively introduce new relationships, incorporating content into the board between sessions. This content and assemblage will focus the discussion as a kind of real-time editing of the board. We will aim at speculating on the nature of what is usually called digital production, dissecting trends from one another, and discussing why they do what they do, and in which theoretical framework they are embedded. The workshop will thus build up positions within the field.
Schedule:
Jun 26 - Jul 3
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Day 1 / Jun 26
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Day 2 / Jun 28
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Day 3 / Jun 29
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Day 4 / Jun 30
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Day 5 / Jul 1
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Day 6 / Jul 2
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Day 7 / Jul 3
Instructors:
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Anna Font Universidad Torcuato Di Tella,Visiting ProfessorAnna Font is an architect for the Universitat Ramon Llull (Barcelona), Master in Architecture II for the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (Cambridge), and PhD in Design candidate at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (London). Anna has worked in architectural offices in Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Boston and Tokyo. She is visiting professor at the Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires), where she teaches Third year Studio and is the Coordinator of the Archive of Architecture, that registers, compiles, and organizes the scope of extracurricular activities at the School and produces the series of publications Archivos de Arquitectura. Her publications include essays and projects in Archivos de Arquitectura, Plot, and Notas CPAU. She has collaborated in the edition and production of the books Suprarural, Atlas of Rural Protocols of the American Midwest and the Argentine Pampas (Ciro Najle and Lluís Ortega, Actar Publishers, 2017), and The Generic Sublime, Organizational Models for Global Architecture (Ciro Najle, Harvard GSD/Actar Publishers, 2016). -
Andrew Pringle Sattui Universidad Torcuato Di Tella,Visiting ProfessorAndrew Pringle Sattui is an architect currently developing his thesis for a master’s in History and Culture of Architecture and the City at the School of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Torcuato Di Tella University (Buenos Aires). He is professor of Computational Models I and II (3rd year undergraduate), Simulation and Feedback and Thesis Tutor (5th year undergraduate) in the same house of studies. He has collaborated in the production of the books The Generic Sublime (Ciro Najle, Harvard GSD/Actar, 2016) and 08 Symmetry Archives (David Salomon, UTDT/Archivos de Arquitectura, 2018). He is writing the book Proyecto Incontinente on architectural thesis methodologies in collaboration with Ciro Najle (UTDT/Archivos de Arquitectura, 2021). He is currently developing a research on Megaelements, an investigation on late century modern architecture’s elements as technological lineages and assemblages, an alternative to the historical model of canonical buildings. Complementarily he is developing a research on Superelements, an investigation on computational models with multiple performative objectives as a way to supersede the form finding model.