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Greg Lynn Form Launch

Lunchtime Lectures
Greg Lynn, discussing Architectural Publications with Brett Steele, Ross Lovegrove, Mark Pappolt and Kel about the status of architectural theory and design publications, on the publication of Greg Lynn Form [Rizzoli].
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Spuybroek vs:and:or Schumacher

Xperimenta Architecture Talks 

_with Lars Spuybroek and Patrik Schumacher

The final Royal College of Art Architecture talk in the Xperimenta series will be with Lars Spuybroek, head of NOX Architecture in Rotterdam and a leading innovator in the use of new media along with Patrik Schumacher, partner at Zaha Hadid Architects, and respected writer, teacher and theorist.

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PETER COOK :.: STAN ALLEN :.: PHILIP BALL :.: LAMBROS MALAFOURIS

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" Philip Ball is a freelance science writer and a Consultant Editor for 'Nature'. He worked as an editor for physical sciences at Nature for over ten years, where his brief extended from biochemistry to quantum physics and materials science. His writings on science for the popular press have covered topical issues ranging from cosmology to the future of molecular biology.

Philip is the author of several popular books on science, including works on the nature of water, pattern formation in the natural world, colour in art, and the science of social and political philosophy. He has written widely on the interactions between art and science, and has delivered lectures to scientific and general audiences at venues ranging from the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) to the NASA Ames Research Center and the London School of Economics.

He writes regularly for 'News@Nature' in particular for the editorial column 'muse@nature'.  He has contributed to publications ranging from New Scientist and Nature to the New York Times, the Guardian, the Financial Times and New Statesman. From October 2005 he will write a science column for Prospect magazine. He has broadcast on many occasions on radio and TV, and in June 2004 he presented a three-part serial on nanotechnology, 'Small Worlds', on BBC Radio 4. He is also Science Writer in Residence at the Department of Chemistry, UCL.  Philip has a BA in Chemistry from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Physics from the University of Bristol. "









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"While the concept of agency is much contested, it is done so within the margins of a narrow anthropocentric perspective which sees agency as a uniquely human attribute. Can it be otherwise? The aim of my talk will be to present a non-anthropocentric relational approach to agency and explore the implication of this approach for our understanding of the active nature material culture and the built environment. To this end I shall be introducing the notion of 'material agency'. The concept itself, that is, 'material agency', is to some extent a misnomer, yet I believe it serves well my basic hypothesis which can be very simply expressed as follows: If human agency is then material agency is, there is no way that human and material agency can be disentangled. Or else, while agency and intentionality may not be properties of things, they are not properties of humans either: they are the properties of 'material engagement', that is, of the grey zone where brain, body and culture conflate.

Lambros Malafouris PhD (Cantab.) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the McDonald Institute, Cambridge University. His research interests lie in the archaeology of mind, cognitive sciences and material culture studies. Since 2006 he is also a member of the 'European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities' funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung. His recent publications include (with Carl Knappett) (eds) 2008 Material Agency: Towards a non-anthropocentric approach, Springer; (with Colin Renfrew and Chris Frith) (eds) 2008 The Sapient Mind: Archaeology meets neuroscience, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B; and (with Colin Renfrew) (eds) (forthcoming) The Cognitive Life of Things: Recasting the boundaries of the mind, Cambridge, McDonald Institute Monographs."







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Michael Weinstock Lectures

Founder and Director of Emergent Technologies Masters Programme, Master of Technical Studies since 1997, and Academic Head of the AA since 2006. He has lectured and published widely, and been Visiting Professor at Rome, Barcelona and Yale. He is currently International Advisor to the Delft School of Design PhD programme and editorial board member of AD Wiley.

Ok, I was late for this lecture and most of it, I was sleep-standing. But I think I woke up when M. started talking about the future of architecture in 10-20 years. 
It lays in an ecological context reconfiguration and climatic distress. No more SOM as we have loads of banks and corporate architecture. As the world population increases, how do we sustain regions, how do we move villages and cities, how do we provide necessary infrastructure to sustain human living which leads to sustainability as we know.
We need to concentrate on simulating a future human environment with a help of information systems - intelligent software that becomes individualized for particular projects in regards to metabolism of architecture and city. 
Learning from efficiency in biology, the solution is adaptation, adapt to change, topography, etc, in order to survive. As a peak of oil is near, humans have to appropriate a high complexity of living; otherwise we start dying.

How complex can we get to design a city, to the point that it will collapse? 

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