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‘The Future Starts Here’ exhibition - curated by Rory Hyde & Mariana Pestana - V&A Museum, London, UK ____

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Is the Architectural Profession Still Relevant? — Failed Architecture

Inspired by his book Future Practice, we talked to Rory Hyde about the social and public relevance and the required recalibration of architecture.

Failed Architecture interview with Rory Hyde: 

“ We still have the monopoly on this dark art of combining technical constraints with a storytelling impulse. If only we knew it ourselves… “

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Architecture / Research / Broadcasting

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Rory Hyde Interview

Rory Hyde: Cities should solicit unsolicited work and finance design in the public interest.

[jarrettfuller]

A great interview with architect/writer/curator Rory Hyde on different types of design practices:

There is a sense that when a client wants something authored or finished, that is when they call an architect, after the brief has already been defined. We are not known for our strength in spatial research, even though, arguably, that’s ninety percent of the job. We speak very little about it and we don’t broadcast it at all. What you see on our websites and in our magazines is the finished photos! So, it’s no surprise that is what people call us to do—to make something unique and beautiful. The reality of the job is about understanding clients’ needs, understanding the site, researching, making a business proposition.

(via Sara Hendren)

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The Future Starts Here will look at how decisions made by technology giants are robbing us of our freedom

Rory Hyde and Mariana Pestana are curating a new show about technology, power, and Silicon Valley called The Future Starts Here for the V&A Museum in London:

The Future Starts Here, which runs from May 12 to November 4, 2018, was never going to be a simple undertaking for the V&A. Besides the fact the exhibit will deal with a vast array of technologies, with more than 100 objects spanning artificial intelligence, internet culture, satellites and smart appliances, the museum is used to dealing in historical memory... not speculation. Early on, Hyde says the only way to approach it was to focus on “the real rather than the inventive, or fiction”. Hence the objects exhibited are on the market, or real prototypes and experiments. As a collective whole, these objects should tell the story of “where we are taking this and what our role in this is,” Hyde says. Essentially, how technology and design stand to shape our everyday experience.

It might seem that Google and Facebook rule the Earth; but the smaller “counter projects” that often stem from community-oriented thinking can redress the dystopian narrative. “The momentum of these big organisations is so great, it’s easy to feel disillusioned and believe the hype,” Hyde says. “We reclaimed our optimism part way through the curation,” he says. “To document the present and where it might be taking us might be more powerful than revisiting historical ideas of the future.”

I've been thinking a lot about publics/counterpublics for a recent project so I'm fascinated by this idea of "counter projects" that attempt to subvert dominant online systems. The exhibition's organization reminds me of Mark Wigley and Beatriz Colomina's Are We Human?:

The exhibition is organised in terms of scale, beginning with the home, then public spaces, before leaping to the planet and ending in the cosmos. “It is structured around a group of questions – that’s the key device we are using to open up the possibilities of little projects,” Hyde says.

Through their research, the curators saw one clear trend: a sense that people feel they have little control in a world where tech giants are seemingly making the rules. “This can cover everything from Apple changing its charging cable, to the sense that the government is reading emails. The future is no longer in our hands and somehow the trajectory of technology is defining that future and we are simply passengers.” This is where “the rise of collective power” – the “counter projects” – comes into play.

Moving to a grander scale, the planet-wide section asks: ‘Should the planet be a design project?’ Hyde explains: “In terms of climate change, the planet is a product of an unintentional design project. Now people are starting to talk about geo-engineering and radical plans to counteract those forces through cloud seeding and such. But does that cross a line if you are intentionally setting out to change the climate? It’s one of the ethical questions we put on the visitor.”

Seems like it fits nicely with the Wigley/Colomina show as well as the Design Museum's recent Designing Freedom.

[theleoisallinthemind]

Meet Your Energy Avatar

collaboration with architect Rory Hyde

sculpture, 30 x 8 m

electroluminescent cable

[mynameisdanieldean]

nice read re: collaborations and new directions with architects