Digital-minimal: Digital Future of Architecture and Planning
On view in the Wolk Gallery until March 29, the digital_minimal exhibition explores alternative directions for the digital future of architecture and planning - from the use of mobile devices that describe urban space in real-time to new user interfaces that redefine the design process.
The impetus for the exhibit is the current discussion about the legacy of the digital revolution.
In the past few years, the academic and professional debate has focused primarily on form-making, the most obvious result of which has been those blobs, or funny shapes, that have proliferated in many architectural and urban design studios.
But according to architectural theorist Antoine Picon: "What many designers have had in common is the belief that architectural form must express the intrinsic complexity of the invisible electronic networks and fields that surround it.
Carlo Ratti and his colleagues and partners have taken a different course.
Their mapping comes prior to any architectural endeavor.
It reveals a level of complexity with which design should not even try to compete."
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