Going viral: Blurred Borders

The AIANY Global Dialogues committee has dedicated 2012 to “uncovered connections” with the intention to investigate issues that are similarly impacting multiple regions, cultures and individuals. Going Viral explores the impact that social media, technology and device culture are having on our design process, and ultimately the way we practice. How do we shape a global conversation? How are we changing the relationships between academia and the profession? What is the impact of hyper information sharing and critique? Throughout the evening, the topics of communication, research, collaboration, and data distribution will be addressed and debated. Bjarke Ingels of BIG, Toru Hasegawa of Morpholio and Columbia University, Carlo Aiello of eVolo, and David Basulto with David Assael of ArchDaily will come together for a lecture and panel discussion moderated by Ned Cramer, editor-in-chief of Architect. In addition, selected game changing blogs and websites will be exhibited as Voices Going Viral on the evening of the event. Please join us at the NY Center for Architecture on May 21st at 6:00 pm and online at http://aianyglobaldialogues.blogspot.com/ for further information. Date: May 21, 2012, 6:00pm Location: Center for Architecture, 536 Laguardia Place, New York, NY (212) 358-6133 RSVP: RSVP appreciated http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=4440 *AIA Continuing Education Units available Moderator: Ned Cramer, editor-in-chief, Architect Ned Cramer is editor-in-chief of Architect, the magazine of the American Institute of Architects, and editorial director of Hanley Wood’s commercial design media brands: Architect, Architectural Lighting, Eco-Structure, and Metalmag. Prior to joining Hanley Wood, Mr. Cramer served as the first fulltime curator of the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) and worked for eight years as an editor at Architecture magazine. Mr. Cramer is a trustee of Archeworks, the Chicago–based alternative design school, and a member of the U.S. General Services Administration’s Design Excellence National Peer Registry, the selection committee for the National Building Museum’s Scully Prize, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art National Advisory Committee. Born and raised in St. Louis, Mr. Cramer received a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Rice University, where he also did graduate work in art and architecture history. He now lives in Washington, D.C. http://www.architectmagazine.com/ Panelists: Bjarke Ingels, Denmark: Founder, BIG Topic: Communication Question: How can we re-shape the discussion? Bjarke Ingels started BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group in 2006 after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 and working at OMA in Rotterdam. Through a series of award-winning design projects and buildings, Bjarke Ingels has created an international reputation as a member of a new generation of architects that combine shrewd analysis, playful experimentation, social responsibility and humor. In 2004, he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for the Stavanger Concert House, and the following year he received the Forum AID Award for the VM Houses. Since its completion, The Mountain has received numerous awards including the World Architecture Festival Housing Award, Forum Aid Award and the MIPIM Residential Development Award. Recently, Bjarke was rated as one of the 100 most creative people in business by New York-based Fast Company magazine as well as being named Wall Street Journal’s Architectural Innovator of 2011. Alongside his architectural practice, Bjarke has been active as a Visiting Professor at Rice University’s School of Architecture and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Bjarke was recently a Visiting Professor at Harvard University where he taught a joint studio with the Business School and the Graduate School of Design. Bjarke is currently a Visiting Professor at the Yale University School of Architecture. http://www.big.dk/ Toru Hasegawa, Japan: Co-creator, Morpholio; Co-director, Cloud Lab Columbia University GSAPP Topic: Research Question: How should the relationship between academia and the profession evolve? Toru Hasegawa has focused on teaching, research and architecture in New York City and Tokyo since 2006. Toru is currently a Co-director of Columbia GSAPP’s Cloud Lab and a Co-creator of The Morpholio Project, researching the ways in which the proliferation of device culture, the development of the cloud, and the ubiquity of social networking, are collectively shaping the creative process. Toru is also an adjunct assistant faculty member at the Columbia University GSAPP where he teaches advanced design studios and seminars on building construction technology and spatial computing. In addition, along with Mark Collins, Toru is a Co-founder of Proxy which explores potentials within the computational paradigm for a range of clients and institutions, providing expertise in both design and realization. Morpholio seeks to create a new platform for presentation, dialogue, and collaboration relevant to all designers, artists and members of any image driven culture advancing the ways that we discuss, debate, and critique our work with a global community.  http://www.mymorpholio.com/site.php/home http://www.thecloudlab.org/ Carlo Aiello, Mexico: Editor-in-Chief, eVolo Topic: Collaboration Question: How are we creating new multidisciplinary platforms for collaborative processes? Carlo Aiello is editor-in-chief and Creative Director of Evolo Magazine. Carlo graduated from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University. After collaborating with Asymptote Architecture and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, he established eVolo Magazine in 2006. Carlo has also been a professor of Architectural Design at the University of Southern California since 2010. http://www.evolo.us/ David Basulto and David Assael, Chile: Co-founders, ArchDaily Topic: Information distribution Question: How does the distribution of architectural knowledge shape and improve cities in the era of hyper-urbanization? David Basulto and David Assael are co-founders of Plataforma Networks and editors of ArchDaily. Their mission is to improve the quality of life for the next three billion people moving into cities over the next 40 years, by providing knowledge, inspiration and tools for architects. Basulto was invited to be part of the jury for the XVII Chile Biennale and coordinator for the Chilean exhibit at the XVII Ecuador Pan-American Biennale. He was also a guest critic at the 44th Architecture Salon in Croatia and served on the jury of the 2010 Young Architects Award by the Young Architects Association of Catalunya, Spain, as well as a juror for the XVII Chile Biennale and the Chilean Selection for the VII Iberoamerican Biennale. He was coordinator of the Chilean Selection for the XVII and XVII Panamerican Quito Biennale and has been on the juries for several civic and educational projects in Chile. Basulto was included in the 100 Young Leaders in 2009 by El Mercurio (Chile’s most influential newspaper), and was chosen as an Endeavor Entrepreneur by the Endeavor Foundation, based in New York.  http://www.archdaily.com/ Voices Going Viral Exhibition Apartment Therapy created by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan and Janel Laban http://apartmenttherapy.com ArchDaily created by David Basulto and David Assael http://archdaily.com Archidose created by John Hill http://archidose.blogspot.com Archinect created by Paul Petrunia http://archinect.com Architect’s Newspaper created by William Menking http://archpaper.com ArchitectureMNP created by Ryan McClain, co-founded by Kiye Apreala http://architecture.myninjaplease.com Architizer created by Matthias Hollwich, Marc Kushner, and Benjamin Prosky http://architizer.com Archive of Affinities created by Andrew Kovacs http://archiveofaffinities.tumblr.com BLDGBLOG created by Geoff Manaugh http://bldgblog.blogspot.com Blurr created by Ahmed Elhusseiny http://blurrblog.com But Does It Float created by Folkert Gorter, Atley Kasky, & Will Schofield http://butdoesitfloat.com Cooking Architecture created by Claire Shafer and Juan Jofre http://cookingarchitecture.com The Cool Hunter created by Bill Tikos http://thecoolhunter.net Core 77 created by Eric Ludlum, Stuart Constantine, & Allan Chochinov http://core77.com Culture Now created by Abby Suckle, Susan Chin, Diana Darling, Anne Lewison, Diana Pardue& Nina Rappaport http://culturenow.org Curbed created by Lockhart Steele http://ny.curbed.com Death by Architecture created by Mario Cipresso http://deathbyarchitecture.com DesignBoom created by Birgit Lohmann & Massimo Mini http://designboom.com Design Sponge created by Grace Bonney http://designsponge.com DesignReform created by CASE http://designreform.net Dezeen created by Marcus Fairs http://dezeen.com e-Oculus created by the AIA New York Chapter http://aiany.org/eOCULUS eVolo created by Carlo Aiello http://evolo.us Inhabitat blog created by Jill Fehrenbacher http://inhabitat.com Landscape + Urbanism created by Jason King http://landscapeandurbanism.blogspot.com Mammoth created by Stephen Becker and Rob Holmes http://m.ammoth.us/blog Morpholio created by Mark Collins, Toru Hasegawa, & Anna Kenoff http://mymorpholio.com Places Journal online: created by Nancy Levinson, Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand & Rick Poynor http://places.designobserver.com Post Post created by David Jaubert http://postpost.co Project created by Alfie Koetter, Daniel Markiewicz, Jonah Rowen, & Emmett Zeifman http://projectjournal.org Credits: Global Dialogue Chairs: Bruce E. Fisher AIA and Jeffrey A. Kenoff AIA Event Co-Chairs: Elie Gamburg, Diane Chehab Design and Curatorial Team: James Kehl, Rebecca Pasternack, Ciara Seymour, Sarah E. Smith, Andy Vann Exhibition and Reception by: AIANY Global Dialogues Committee Microsol Resources w/ technical support by Autodesk Global Dialogues: (un-covered) CONNECTIONS The AIA New York Chapter’s Global Dialogues’ 2012 theme (un-covered) Connections will view respective topics of our time through multiple lenses to uncover a broader understanding of global, urban trends in physical and digital space. Quarterly events include: Shadow City(s), Going Viral, Crisis, and Public/Private. http://aianyglobaldialogues.blogspot.com/