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ENIAtype: The Architecture of Design Ecologies @ Future Cities VI: The Marvellous 
University of Greenwich 
Stockwell street 
Exhibition and talk on Friday 21 April 2017.

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There is also an exhibition of fantastic architectural drawings in Stephen Lawrence Gallery on Stockwell Street, Greenwich, U.K. On Friday 21st April 2017 for private view!

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Design Ecologies 5.1/5.2 Anonymous Monsters

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Design Ecologies 4.1 and 4.2 Tipping Points

The Tipping Points in architecture and design as an ineffaceable illumination as materialism ossifies architecture in boundless creativity as a mirror of our age.


This issue will challenge the idea of tipping points through three factions. Firstly, Bifurcations – on how does the tipping point phenomena arise and was there a pinch point, break-off as too where the tipping point occurred. Secondly, Fault lines – on what did the tipping point leave exposed? Was it an open chasm? Is there a shift between two factions that caused this tipping point? Thirdly, Consequences – on what are the consequences of the tipping point? Was there an impact on the current condition? Each contribution to this issue will offer a different perspective on current tipping points in fashion, designing architecture and making models, computing in architecture, post-cinema and communication design through to the practicing of architecture and the allure of objects that cause fault lines in our relational ecologies.

The contributing articles include:

Tim Matts, Dane Sutherland and Gary Tyler, ‘Nothing to See Here? Health Goth and the Eclipse of Hypocamouflage’, smudges the transhuman embrace of technical sportswear, Health Goth and the concerns of Hypercamouflage. With its anti-nostalgic, putatively ‘transhuman’ embrace of technical sportswear, biotechnologies and digitally rendered environments, the recent ‘Health Goth’ phenomenon, which first emerged as an aesthetic and social trend centred around an Internet community in 2013, therefore, at first blush, appears quintessentially accelerationist.

Nasios Varnavas , ‘Landscapes of Anatexis: A ritual using sharp blade for resurrecting the Pheonix’, blurs the distinction of theory fiction in architecture with a blunt knife. This is a journey of an Architecture, which depends greatly on the booming economic landscapes, has found itself in stagnant waters, unable to shift, inspire or propose new forms of tectonic resistance to envision the future and overcome the clichés of reliving its past.

Liss C. Werner, ‘In Quest of Code’, sources a critical tipping point in the source of code and design of architecture. Through Architects who apply their generative modeling and scripting skills for creating virtual and prototypical spaces are increasingly confronted with an application in the real material world. The article suggests computational design strategies and two different architectural and urban prototypes for an era in which intelligent material, robotic assistants, smart geometries and changing human habitat converge with demographic, cultural and natural earth data to govern a global rethinking of socioarchitectural ecologies.

James Moore, ‘The Architecture of Post Cinema’, discussed the transition of open source montage in relation to cinema. Open Montage (OM) is an interactive video project problematizing the position of the moving image in contemporary network culture. Digital communication systems afford the possibility for user experience designers to reflect on a weakening of hierarchical narratives of power and representation; yet, the tendency towards an unthinking remediation of prior (televisual) media types and hierarchies persists.

Felix Robbins, ‘(Im)possibility of Practice: Satirical objectification and essaying projects’, develops the notion of ‘tipping points’ with respect to the gaps and slippages in his architectural practice, and the consequences when considered in terms of projecting for architecture as opposed to the production of architecture. It adopts as a ‘starting point’ the insecurities of the discipline and the predominance of ‘models of’ architecture conceived as a ‘problem-solving’ exercise. It adopts a sceptical reflection on the premise of the discipline, and the value of its product – suggesting that the perpetuation of positions to justify a product merely exacerbate the impossibility of practice.

Thomas Pearce, ‘Orchestrating the Edge: Towards a noisy point cloud onto-epistemology’, disturbs the territories between two conditions in the way we understand and use emerging technologies as a set of tacit philosophical assumptions, psychological mechanisms and techniques of governance. The discourse surrounding 3D scanning, a technology on the verge of becoming ubiquitous, is one of veracity and accuracy: the scanner is treated as an immaterial camera obscura and an ultimate facilitator of objective knowledge. This article discusses a design-research project that dismantles such assumptions and recuperates notions of noise, multiplicity and ambiguity within the point cloud.

Simon Withers, ‘This Curious Device - As Allurer’, wanders with light toes along the Maritime Complexities in Greenwich, where laws of exuberance and pleasures of imagination are so gloriously made manifest, at the heart of which exists the Vista Land. A place of curiosity, invention and combination.

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Augmented Planning at Old Royal Naval Colleges

Research project in progress Dr Shaun Murray and Simon Withers

http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/news/articles/2016/a3619-hi-tech-meets-the-historic-3d-scans-to-promote-painted-hall

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Design Ecologies 5.1- Anonymous Monsters

peer-reviewed journal published by Intellect journals

Call for Articles

Digital Forensics on Anonymous Monsters is a chthonic zenoarchaeology that constructs new models of thinking through construction and physical construction with the earth.

 The anonymous monster could be the alternate contracting/ constructing models and ideas that you consider valuable and inherently fundamental for an architecture before the architecture- the scaffolding of thought and the scaffolding of buildings. This scaffolding could become the anonymous support structure that enables but also underpins the monster under construction.

enquires: shaun at eniatype dot com

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Design Ecologies 3.1: Chthonic Deluge This issue of design ecologies will offer alternatives to architectural practice rather than complimentary recognition often based on mutual recognition and critical limitation rather than imaginative crossovers. The contributors aim to consolidate a divide rather than they overcome it. All the contributors have a conceptual abhorrence to more speculative approaches to architecture that seek access to some speculative absolute, especially those that proffer a relative position in theory but absolute in practice. Contributors include Peter Watts Nic Clear Nandita Biswas Mellamphy Felix Robbins Ben Woodward

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  CALL FOR ARTICLES

Design Ecologies 4.1&2: Tipping Points

Submission deadline: Friday 28th November 2014

    Design Ecologies 4.1&2: Tipping points addresses the consequences that humans have become the dominant driver of almost all natural processes in the biosphere. Anthropogenic changes are leading to a reshuffling of species assemblies from local to global spatial scales and, additionally, novel organisms created in laboratories and design studios enter ecosystems. It is expected that these changes are leading to new behaviours of ecological systems and ‘tipping points’ is becoming widely acknowledged.

  For Design Ecologies 4.1: Tipping Points, we have invited Roy Ascott to write the ideation article in response to the other article selected for this issue of Design Ecologies.

  Design Ecologies was set up as a platform for state-of-the-art experiments that link architecture, technology and philosophy. Dividing its remit between events - most recently exhibitions and seminars at the Architectural Association and the Royal College of Art - and publications, Design Ecologies officially launched with its inaugural journal issue in January 2011. A second issue, The Unprimed Canvas - named after an offhand remark by Francis Bacon, to the effect that he considered the process of painting to start with priming the canvas, not assuming it had already been primed - followed later that year, and saw Timothy Morton contribute an editorial. The third issue, the Ill-Defined Niche, we had the editorial written by the inimitable Nick Land. The fourth issue, a sentient relic described a double edged sword theory – one edge exposing the dominant ‘theory chic’ of contemporary architecture and the other cutting opening the for a more dangerous conception of design- a guide, a tool for plotting a cryptic cartography with strategic precision.  The next issue, Chthonic Deluge, will hit the shelves June 2014. We are honoured to have Peter Watts an author, felon, and former marine biologist whose background informs science fiction on the hard end of the scale (in fact his novel Blindsight has been used as a core text for undergraduate courses ranging from “Philosophy of Mind” to “Introductory Neuropsychology”). His work is available in 18 languages.

  Regular updates at: http://designecologies.tumblr.com/

We invite submissions of articles from any discipline to speculate on the formation of your projects/ buildings/ performances as a critical practice that activates our understanding of intuition, inventory and discovery in architecture.

The four areas of interest include:

1. Ecological design visions.

2. Notational design

3. Instructional design visions.

4. Aesthetical design visions

We also welcome case studies and project profiles of 1–5 pages in length

  Submissions

Submissions are welcome from both scholars and practitioners. Contributions may be between 3,000 and 7,000 words and should be accessible to the non-specialist reader. Papers must be submitted in English.

Please send all submissions to : info (at) eniatype (dot) com  

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CALL FOR ARTICLES

Design Ecologies 3.2: Plotting the Continuum: Designing the end of computational reasoning

Submission deadline: Friday 28th November 2014

  Design Ecologies 3.2: Plotting the continuum discusses the fundamental problems with today’s computational horizon through algorithmic computation and digital simulation, which can be divided into three categories:

1. Computational algorithms work with iteration as their operating kernel

2. Computational algorithms work with (real) numbers

3. The third problem with computational algorithms is that they are constructed on the basis of classical logic and thus possess – in contrast to common belief – a principally narrow if not skewed epistemological competence.

  For Design Ecologies 3.2: Plotting the Continuum, we have invited the inimitable Reza Negarestani to write the ideation article in response to the other article selected for this issue of Design Ecologies.

  Design Ecologies was set up as a platform for state-of-the-art experiments that link architecture, technology and philosophy. Dividing its remit between events - most recently exhibitions and seminars at the Architectural Association and the Royal College of Art - and publications, Design Ecologies officially launched with its inaugural journal issue in January 2011. A second issue, The Unprimed Canvas - named after an offhand remark by Francis Bacon, to the effect that he considered the process of painting to start with priming the canvas, not assuming it had already been primed - followed later that year, and saw Timothy Morton contribute an editorial. The third issue, the Ill-Defined Niche, we had the editorial written by the inimitable Nick Land. The fourth issue, a sentient relic described a double edged sword theory – one edge exposing the dominant ‘theory chic’ of contemporary architecture and the other cutting opening the for a more dangerous conception of design- a guide, a tool for plotting a cryptic cartography with strategic precision.  The next issue, Chthonic Deluge, will hit the shelves June 2014. We are honoured to have Peter Watts an author, felon, and former marine biologist whose background informs science fiction on the hard end of the scale (in fact his novel Blindsight has been used as a core text for undergraduate courses ranging from “Philosophy of Mind” to “Introductory Neuropsychology”). His work is available in 18 languages.

  Regular updates at: http://designecologies.tumblr.com/

We invite submissions of articles from any discipline to speculate on the formation of your projects/ buildings/ performances as a critical practice that activates our understanding of intuition, inventory and discovery in architecture.

The four areas of interest include:

1. Ecological design visions.

2. Notational design

3. Instructional design visions.

4. Aesthetical design visions

We also welcome case studies and project profiles of 1–5 pages in length

  Submissions

Submissions are welcome from both scholars and practitioners. Contributions may be between 3,000 and 7,000 words and should be accessible to the non-specialist reader. Papers must be submitted in English.

Please send all submissions to: info (at) eniatype (dot) com

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ENIAtype Masterclass, three-day workshop on River Nile, Cairo intervention, 2013

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Design Ecologies 2.2: A Sentient Relic

A double edged sword theory – one edge through the dominant ‘theory chic’ of contemporary architecture and the other opening the way for a more dangerous conception of design – a guide, a tool for a cryptic cartography of positioning oneself from within the construction of the design itself. 

Humans become the relic in relation to the sentient building. 

Design Ecologies 2.2: A Sentient Relic explores strategies and tactics in the deluge of our environmental alterity, through nexuses between ecological, notational, instructional and aesthetical design visions. We are looking for models and speculations for grasping non-anthropocentric as a design methodology and collapse of the natural onto the artificial, all in connection with Design Ecologies. To see in architecture a suspension, a compromise: at the same time that it liberates a tendency towards a synthesis of bifurcations and extrapolations. Architecture as a convoluted plane of tactics and meta-strategies for giving rise to a twisted strain of designing in the built environment engrained with non-anthropocentric, non-local and non-reductionist design systems. Designing may be understood to be an exploration of alternative principles to emergent practical environmental problems. Sentient relics are designs ready to adopt different tactics and strategies between ground and unground as a kind of autopredation.

contributions from:

Stuart Munro

Perry Kulper

Mark West

Tim Matts and Aiden Tynan

Keith Tilford

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DEADLINE is approaching at the end of next month for the CFP on Design Ecologies: Chthonic Deluge. Please get in touch is you are going to propose an article. email: info (at) eniatype (dot) com

With Peter Watts, author of Blindsight, writing the overview article for all contributions in this issue.

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FULL ARTICLE In Design Ecologies 2.2: a sentient relic, published through Intellect books.

Ontological pivots

Keith Tilford

  Abstract

This article provides a survey of recent projects in the acrylic medium, detailing some of the operative conceptual machinery and genesis of the ideas, with brief reflections on the implications of materials, process and aesthetic choices. It attempts to extract speculative philosophical consequences for approaches to drawing and the possibilities of thinking its act through the concepts of gesture and manipulative abduction as they appear in the work of Gilles Châtelet and Lorenzo Magnani respectively. Beyond this, the article sets up a potential task for thinking art in relation to alienation and estrangement as ineradicable aspects of its procedures, and considers them as liberating rather than constricting mechanisms.

(image by Keith Tilford)

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FULL ARTICLE In Design Ecologies 2.2: a sentient relic, published through Intellect books. Spatial Blooms Perry Kulper

Abstract

‘Spatial Blooms’ is research by design work undertaken through the generous support of the University of Michigan’s Taubman College ‘Research Through Making’ grant program. This article discusses work that explores the possibility of inscribing indeterminacy and varied temporal logics, borrowed from landscape, into architecture. It foregrounds the possibility of an evolving architecture that stimulates relations that might be generated during its existence- temporally active germinal formations, loaded and ready to go. The design efforts study this potential by using landscape ready-mades- specifically, landscape organizational principles, landscape elements and landscape biologies, and their capacities to engender change, enfolded through design. Ultimately the architecture would facilitate spheres of influence, activated in time. The work trades on the richness of landscapes at cultural, experiential and operational levels, investigating ways in which landscape properties can find their way into architectural speculations. It explores the cross-pollination of the landscape properties into architecture through three specific lenses: analogous thinking as a design method; the use of language prompts to activate design possibilities; the development of graphically deep visualization techniques to evolve the work.

(image by Perry Kulper)

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FULL ARTICLE In Design Ecologies 2.2: a sentient relic, published through Intellect books. Out Of Our Hands- Three Architectural Fantasies for Strange and Sad Ecologies Mark West

Abstract Here is a story told through three architectural fantasies, separated by over a quarter century from first to last. The arc of this story is caught in a strong tension between architecture’s essential optimism and certain dystopic social ecologies. Its story draws upon a personal narrative in order to give a figure to our collective imagination of the future and our picture of our place in Nature and how these have altered through 30 years of cultural, technological, (and personal) change. It wants to know what architecture might be called to do and how it might act when caught in a diastolic cultural pulse -- a dark groping for beauty in an evolving landscape of difficult imagined futures. (image of 'Safehouse' by Mark West)

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*CALL FOR PAPERS* Design Ecologies 3.1: chthonic deluge Submission deadline: Thursday 28th February 2013

  Peter Watts (author of Blindsight) will write the overview article!!

  Design Ecologies 3.1: chthonic deluge present a possible future, images of unprecedented catastrophe and collapse, of certainties and values distorted beyond repair or retrieval, and to craft them with the conviction of the seen; the unseen through the swirling devilish bombardment of objects in a sublime frenzy of forces in the whimpering, emotionally-exhausted wasteland of the twenty first century. Through the hysterical oscillations of implosion and explosion there will be a prophecy of planetary exhumation or ecological deluge. 

We have the Canadian science fiction author Peter Watts writing the ideation article in response to the other four articles and case study selected for this issue of Design Ecologies. Regular updates at: http://designecologies.tumblr.com/ We invite submissions of articles from any discipline to speculate on the formation of your projects/ buildings/ performances as a critical practice that activates our understanding of intuition, inventory and discovery in architecture.  The four areas of interest include: 1. Ecological design visions. 2. Notational design  3. Instructional design visions. 4. Aesthetical design visions  We also welcome case studies and project profiles of 1–5 pages in length Submissions Submissions are welcome from both scholars and practitioners. Contributions may be between 3,000 and 7,000 words and should be accessible to the non-specialist reader. Papers must be submitted in English.  Please send all submissions to: info (at) eniatype (dot) com

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Design Ecologies 2.1: the ill-defined niche, 2012.

Architecture- one that coerces the participant to focus on the shifting relationship between buildings and environment as the obstacle to their failure.

The articles are written by architects who underpin the failure of the connection between materiality and environment in relation to their own unique practice methodologies. Includes articles by NICK LAND, NAT CHARD, CAMILA E. SOTOMAYOR, TIM MATTS, AIDAN TYNAN and SHAUN MURRAY.