HYPERCities - IaaC GLOBAL SUMMER SCHOOL - NEW YORK
Tuesday, Jul 5, 20169 AM — Monday, Jul 18, 20165 PMEDT
| NewLab- Brooklyn Navy Yard
New York, NY, USHYPERCITIES
IaaC GLOBAL SUMMER SCHOOL
he Global Summer School (GSS) is a platform defined by ambitious, multi-scalar investigation on the implications of emergent techniques in our planned environments. Each year, international teams located in key cities around the globe explore a common agenda with projects that are deeply embedded in diverse local conditions. Because of this, participants have an international laboratory to test their design hypothesis, understanding how design conclusions derived locally can be tested and evolved globally in different cities where other teams reside. This intensive two week course connects each participant to ongoing research agendas in robotics, simulation, physical computing, parametric design, digital fabrication, and other relevant emerging design methodologies. Specific emphasis is placed on understanding the multiscalar implications of design conclusions, thus creating critical research advanced on the application of new technologies in design.
HYPERCITIES GSS_2016
The way we describe and understand cities today is radically changing, and alongside this change there is also a radical transformation in the tools we use to design them. Cities call for a different approach towards the development of new multi-scalar strategies in urban design and planning solutions. Cities can be described as systems of networked ecologies: a series of co-dependent aggregations revolving around environmental mitigation, land-use organization, communication and service delivery. These generate a complexity that can be organized through technology, laws, political pressures, disciplinary desires, environmental constraints and social interaction. In fact networked ecologies embody the dominant form of organization today: the network, be it telematic, physical or even social.
GSS16 will focus on the potentials of this network to work not only at an urban scale, but also across diverse cities, interconnecting and expanding them. These will ultimately create a dynamic and interactive system of “HYPERCITIES”: A variety of city-sensors (digital or analogue) processing and transferring information in explicit manifestations, interrelating with the collective environment. The GSS16 will be directed by IaaC in collaboration with multiple Nodes participating in the course from and in different parts of the globe. All the Nodes engaged in the GSS16 will be challenged to define a 1:1 urban machining intervention transferring and digitally interrelating multiple sets of data collected from hyper-connected cities. The goal is to work as a globally distributed campus to generate a hyper-network of interventions that communicate to each other both locally and globally. GSS16 is an innovative educational model emerging from the digital era.
NEW YORK_ IaaC GLOBAL SUMMER SCHOOL
Cities are continuously produced through entropic processes that mediate between complex networked systems and the immediacy urban life. Emergent media technologies inform new relationships between information and matter, code and space to redefine new urban ecosystems. The GSS16-NYC aims at investigating emerging forms of production of urban spaces reimagining the physical city through intelligent and mediated processes. Through data agency and mediated urban processes, GSS16-NYC will explore the connection between the production of expanded territories and fabrication and robotic practices. Focus will be placed on the feedback mechanism between scales, investigating the continuous loop between the micro and the macro urban scale.
The city of New York will be the expanded site of exploration. Interacting, Integrating, Expanding, Networking and Hacking will be the operational categories to re-imagine future territories and urban practices. The investigations will critically reflect on the city as the shared, the common, the civic and the public enterprise. The exploration of urban scenarios will be filtered through the following categories: Digital and Robotic fabrication, Material Intelligence, Big Data and Network Systems, Urban Robotics and Mobile Computing, Responsive Environments.
Generative design and computationally driven processes will take place throughout the program. A series of lectures from leading academics and international invited guests will construct the theoretical framework of the GSS, integrating and expanding the learning modules, with a final exhibition and promotion of the work. The GSS16-NYC will be an expanded platform of investigation with direct interaction with the other IaaC GSS nodes, and on-site and networked exchange between the participants and the invited global community.
STRUCTURE:
Global Summer School NY is a full-time two-week course that provides both practical and theoretical knowledge. Its structure consists in three main learning modules, led by expert tutors. In addition, lectures by renowned professionals and academics relevant to the topics to be treated during the course. These will be broadcasted in the different node-cities, all globally connected. The lecture program will be announced prior to GSS commencement. The following three course modules aim towards a common objective: the fabrication of a 1:1 urban machining intervention, transferring and digitally interrelating multiple sets of data collected from hyper-connected cities.
CONCEPT (Urban Strategies +Technology)
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CODING (Generative Design and Data)
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PROTOTYPING (Fabrication and Robotics)
Eligibility
The IaaC-NY Global Summer School is open to current architecture, design, landscape, and urban designstudents, PhD candidates, and young professionals.
CREDITS
In the end of the course all participants will receive a Global Summer School Diploma.
INFO
NY GSS_ July 5-18, 2016
Apply by May 30, 2016
https://apply.iaac.net/applications/view.php?id=38987
GSS_NY Coordinator:
MARCELLA DEL SIGNORE
PARTNER:
LOCATION:
NEWLAB
Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, USA
TUITION FEES: The fee of New York Summer School is 1000€ including all material costs needed for the course. No additional registration fee is required.
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