Active matter
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The past few decades brought a revolution in computer software and hardware; today we are on the cusp of a materials revolution. If yesterday we programmed computers and other machines, today we program matter itself. This has created new capabilities in design, computing, and fabrication, which allow us to program proteins and bacteria, to generate self-transforming wood(...)
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The past few decades brought a revolution in computer software and hardware; today we are on the cusp of a materials revolution. If yesterday we programmed computers and other machines, today we program matter itself. This has created new capabilities in design, computing, and fabrication, which allow us to program proteins and bacteria, to generate self-transforming wood products and architectural details, and to create clothing from “intelligent textiles” that grow themselves. This book offers essays and sample projects from the front lines of the emerging field of active matter.
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De 1970 à 1973, la présidence de Salvador Allende (1908-1973) entendit gérer la transition de l'économie chilienne du capitalisme vers le socialisme. Sous la direction du Britannique Stafford Beer (1926-2002), « père de la gestion cybernétique » adoubé par Norbert Wiener, une équipe interdisciplinaire conçut les modèles cybernétiques d'usines du secteur nationalisé de(...)
Le projet cybersyn: la cybernétique socialiste dans le Chili de Salvador Allende
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De 1970 à 1973, la présidence de Salvador Allende (1908-1973) entendit gérer la transition de l'économie chilienne du capitalisme vers le socialisme. Sous la direction du Britannique Stafford Beer (1926-2002), « père de la gestion cybernétique » adoubé par Norbert Wiener, une équipe interdisciplinaire conçut les modèles cybernétiques d'usines du secteur nationalisé de l'économie, et créa un réseau informatique de collecte et transmission rapides des données économiques entre le gouvernement et les ateliers de production. Bien que jamais activée, sa salle de contrôle dessinée au sein du Palais présidentiel par Gui Bonsiepe (1934- ), étudiant de l'école de design d'Ulm (où il enseigna de 1960 à 1968), constituait la partie visible de ce dispositif...
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Machines and robots
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Machines, automats, and robots have always exerted a special fascination on artists. Yet computers, digitisation, and the Internet have given this attraction entirely new impulses. Moreover, developments in artificial intelligence and robotics are of critical importance today. The fifth volume of this series provides insights into current research topics and investigates(...)
Machines and robots
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Machines, automats, and robots have always exerted a special fascination on artists. Yet computers, digitisation, and the Internet have given this attraction entirely new impulses. Moreover, developments in artificial intelligence and robotics are of critical importance today. The fifth volume of this series provides insights into current research topics and investigates their artistic potential and possible issues. It contains illustrations and a detailed glossary of significant terms, in addition to contributions by Raffaello D'Andrea, Andreas Broeckmann, Roland Fischer, Martina Kammermann, Bruno Spoerri, Philipp Theisohn, Mads Pankow, and Roland Wetzel.
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Although 3D printing promises a revolution in many industries, primarily industrial manufacturing, nowhere are the possibilities greater than in the field of product design and modular architecture. Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, of the cutting-edge San Francisco Bay Area-based design firm Emerging Objects, have developed remarkable techniques for "printing" from(...)
Printing architecture: innovative recipes for 3D printing
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Although 3D printing promises a revolution in many industries, primarily industrial manufacturing, nowhere are the possibilities greater than in the field of product design and modular architecture. Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, of the cutting-edge San Francisco Bay Area-based design firm Emerging Objects, have developed remarkable techniques for "printing" from a wide variety of powders, including sawdust, clay, cement, rubber, concrete, salt, and even coffee grounds, opening an entire realm of material, phenomenological, and ecological possibilities to designers. In addition to case studies and illustrations of their own work, Rael and San Fratello offer guidance for sourcing alternative materials, specific recipes for mixing compounds, and step-by-step instructions for conducting bench tests and setting parameters for material testing, to help readers understand the process of developing powder-based materials and their unique qualities.
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Signal. Image. Architecture.
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Architecture is immersed in an immense cultural experiment called imaging. ?Yet the technical status and nature of that imaging must be reevaluated. What happens to the architectural mind when it stops pretending that electronic images of drawings made by computers are drawings? When it finally admits that imaging is not drawing, but is instead something that has already(...)
Signal. Image. Architecture.
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Architecture is immersed in an immense cultural experiment called imaging. ?Yet the technical status and nature of that imaging must be reevaluated. What happens to the architectural mind when it stops pretending that electronic images of drawings made by computers are drawings? When it finally admits that imaging is not drawing, but is instead something that has already obliterated drawing?
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AD Performance-oriented architecture: rethinking architectural design and the built environment
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This book offers an innovative and highly practical approach to architectural design. Focusing on the concept of performance that brought about a paradigm shift in the humanities in earlier decades, the book discusses how to use this concept to address ongoing problems in architecture. It explores the meaning of performance in the context of the built environment, design(...)
AD Performance-oriented architecture: rethinking architectural design and the built environment
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This book offers an innovative and highly practical approach to architectural design. Focusing on the concept of performance that brought about a paradigm shift in the humanities in earlier decades, the book discusses how to use this concept to address ongoing problems in architecture. It explores the meaning of performance in the context of the built environment, design processes, sustainable architecture, spatial organization, and other aspects of design. Featuring numerous color illustrations plus historical and contemporary examples, this is an eye-opening resource for architects and urban designers.
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Une synthèse sur les enjeux de l'arrivée du numérique dans les sciences humaines, suscitant à la fois des craintes et des espoirs. L'auteur met en avant l'argument de sciences humaines rendues plus utiles au contact des nouvelles technologies. Il fait entendre aussi les voix discordantes sur l'hégémonie des sciences dures et du monde anglo-saxon, la dématérialisation, la(...)
Humanités numériques : la culture face aux nouvelles technologies
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Une synthèse sur les enjeux de l'arrivée du numérique dans les sciences humaines, suscitant à la fois des craintes et des espoirs. L'auteur met en avant l'argument de sciences humaines rendues plus utiles au contact des nouvelles technologies. Il fait entendre aussi les voix discordantes sur l'hégémonie des sciences dures et du monde anglo-saxon, la dématérialisation, la fracture numérique, etc
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Proliférant sur l’ensemble de la planète, le stade est devenu l’un des plus puissants symboles d’une société mondialisée en proie à la démence financière et à l’aberration technologique. Lieu par excellence d’un ordre sportif –?en apparence?– immuable, son architecture est à la croisée d’une technologie esthétisée et d’une esthétique high-tech. Le stade contemporain a(...)
Smart Stadium: le stade numérique du spectacle sportif
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Proliférant sur l’ensemble de la planète, le stade est devenu l’un des plus puissants symboles d’une société mondialisée en proie à la démence financière et à l’aberration technologique. Lieu par excellence d’un ordre sportif –?en apparence?– immuable, son architecture est à la croisée d’une technologie esthétisée et d’une esthétique high-tech. Le stade contemporain a vite déployé et intégré les techno-logies numériques, faisant du sport un spectacle total et de lui-même un spectacle en tant que tel. Le spectateur y est absorbé par les écrans portables ou fixes, petits ou géants, contraint à une visualisation ininterrompue, à une attention soutenue et surtout à la dépendance totale vis-à-vis de la compétition sportive. Illustré de nombreux exemples, ce livre analyse le processus de numérisation intégrale du stade devenu une petite ville envahie d’objets et d’individus connectés, et rend compte des enjeux sécuritaires concomitants. Il montre comment le caractère asservissant du sport de compétition, décuplé par la numérisation du lieu même de sa pratique, pulvérise la conscience des individus.
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In this book, editors Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski use the term "media infrastructure" to signal a shift in critical focus and approach that questions the international telecommunication network as a given. Contributors instead confront vital questions concerning the multiple and hybrid forms networks take, the different ways they are imagined and engaged with by(...)
Signal traffic: critical studies of media infrastructures
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In this book, editors Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski use the term "media infrastructure" to signal a shift in critical focus and approach that questions the international telecommunication network as a given. Contributors instead confront vital questions concerning the multiple and hybrid forms networks take, the different ways they are imagined and engaged with by publics around the world, their local effects, and what human beings experience when a network fails.
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Un essai sur la neuroesthétique, espace interdisciplinaire entre esthétique, neurosciences et sciences cognitives. L'auteur s'interroge notamment sur la place de l'inné et de l'acquis dans l'expression de notre sensibilité au beau, sur les dispositions neuronales ou les processus physiologiques qui favorisent la reconnaissance et l'appréciation de la beauté.
Art et technosciences : bioart et neuroesthétique
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Un essai sur la neuroesthétique, espace interdisciplinaire entre esthétique, neurosciences et sciences cognitives. L'auteur s'interroge notamment sur la place de l'inné et de l'acquis dans l'expression de notre sensibilité au beau, sur les dispositions neuronales ou les processus physiologiques qui favorisent la reconnaissance et l'appréciation de la beauté.
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