Flip Your Field
Michael Chen and Jason Lee will present a paper Illicit Protocols and Cognitive Infrastructure at the ACSA West Central Fall Conference, “Flip Your Field” at the University of Illinois, Chicago, October 20-23.
View the Conference Poster here.
EVENTS:
Keynote Lecture
Keynote Lecture
Three recently appointed Deans discuss surprising practices in design education and give how-to advice on counter-intuition and design intelligence.
Monica Ponce de Leon, UMich TCAUP
Michael Speaks, UKY College of Design
Sarah Whiting, Rice School of Architecture
in conversation with
Robert Somol, UIC School of Architecture
SESSIONS:
Parkour, play, sub-pop, and a parallel post-modernism vie for the attention of an expanded architectural audience.
Michael Meredith (MOS), Jason Payne (UCLA), William T Willoughby (LA Tech), Peter Zellner (SCI-Arc) Agent: Paul Preissner (UIC)
REPRODUCTION
Satellite farming, sensorial media, experimental time, and monster maps look at architecture with eyes wide shut.
Eva Franch (Rice), Thomas Forget (UNC), Jordan Geiger (SUNY-Buffalo), Hazem Ziada (SPSU) Agent: Jon Yoder (Syracuse)
DETAIL
Eroded surfaces, arrayed assemblies, steam bending, and seam stressing push the boundary of architectural envelopes.
Danielle Briscoe (UT Austin), Matt Burgermaster (NJIT), Grant Gibson (UIC), Steven Y Mankouche (UMich) Agent: Julie Flohr (UIC)
INFLUENCE
Stolen symmetry, Latin influences, anxious swerves, and corrupted precedents transmit the passage of architectural ideas.
Richard R Gnat (KSU), Amanda R Lawrence (Northeastern), Juan Manuel Rois (UIC), David Salomon (Syracuse) Agent: Penelope Dean (UIC)
CATASTROPHE
Emergency devices, ambulance chasing, epic failures, and big form promise new opportunities to start over.
Sarah Dunn (UIC)|Martin Felsen (IIT), Elijah Huge (Wesleyan), Karen J Lewis (OSU), Jeremy Voorhees (Temple) Agent: John McMorrough (UMich TCAUP)
SYSTEM
Active surfaces, atypical plans, global networks, and urban acupuncture organize architectural facts.
Sarah Deyong (Texas A&M), Keith Krumwiede (Yale), Clare Lyster (UIC), Kiel Moe (Northeastern) Agent: Dawn Finley (Rice)
ENERGY
Rose-tinted worlds, live models, synthetic environments, and resources to burn redirect architecture’s relationship with energy.
Paul Andersen (!ndie Architecture), Helene Furjan (UPenn), Nataly Gattegno|Jason Kelly Johnson (CCA), Ulrika Karlsson (KTH)| Marcelyn Gow (KTH|SCI-Arc) Agent: Sean Lally(UIC)
NEGOTIATION
Radical railbanking, productive obstacles, collective interventions, and shaky deals offer new freedoms from old constraints.
Heide Y Beebe|Doug Skidmore (Beebe Skidmore Architects), McLain Clutter (UMich), Edward Mitchell (Yale), Thomas Moran (UMich) Agent: Alex Lehnerer (UIC)
METROPOLIS
Megaforms, Hilberseimer, Walmart, and illicit protocols instigate new metropolitan forms, programs, and fictions.
Michael Chen (Pratt)|Jason Lee (Pratt), Daniela Fabricius (Princeton), Jesse Le Cavalier (ETH Zürich), Neyran Turan (Rice) Agent: Alexander Eisenschmidt (UIC)
VERSIONS
Repurposed variables, bred materials, adaptive systems, and fantastic offspring engineer architectural values.
Kory Michael Bieg (CCA), Santiago R Perez (UH), Jonas Runberger (KTH), Rhett Russo (NJIT) Agent: Heather Roberge (UCLA)
Suburban Identity
Michael Chen and Jason Lee will present a paper, (Sub) Urban Footprints at the ACSA North East Fall Conference, “Suburban Identity” at the University of Hartford School of Architecture, October 08-10, 2010.
Final Review April 30th
Thank you to all the guest critics who took time out to join us on Friday, and thank you to all the students for their hard work.
Students:
Guest Critics:
HK-SZ Biennale Waterfront Promenade Exhibition Opening
Our installation for the HK-SZ Biennale will officially open this Saturday at the West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade. If you are in HK, go check it out and pick up a crisis fronts postcard. For more details from the organizers, click here.
HK Hustle: Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture 2009
Night and Day_HKSZ :: The Crisis Fronts Sampler
Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture 2009
The Crisis Fronts Sampler is an interactive exhibition interface and includes components that collect, display, and leverage collective intelligence and social feedback for the purposes of generating proposals for future infrastructural development in the Hong Kong-Shenzhen urbanized region. The primary site of inquiry is the “Closed Area” interstitial border zone immediately opposite the boundary between Hong Kong and Shenzhen and adjacent to Lo Wu and Lok Ma Chau. In the context of the increasing interconnectedness of the two cities and the transition from Special Administrative status in 2046, it is a political and territorial gray area, a region that is at once part of a geographic center of a combined or linked regional metropolis, and at the same time a zone of shared and overlapping peripheries.
Biennale visitors are encouraged to sample a series of printed souvenir postcards directing them to an online questionnaire that queries their practices with respect to travel and communication between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Visitors are invited to provide information about their habits and sentiments through a series of Yes/No/Maybe queries. The intent here is to forecast possible urban infrastructural arrangements based on the sampling of a population’s latent attitude towards the uncertainty of a future collective identity. This intersection is fertile ground to accommodate the imminent demands of various boundary transformations of the near future. A possible scenario of this begins with the expansion and multiplication of durational delayed zones along corridors of inter-connectivity. This re-organization of unstable grounds will introduce a new gradient of infrastructural contact points where it ranges from an aggressive hydrological edge to a series of market driven holding zones. These two fronts are interspersed with a collection of agricultural patches that fluctuate seasonally, and they are connected by a series of circulatory linkages that promote a more extended inter-border occupation. It is our contention that the terrains between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, which today can be understood as a nether-region or buffer will be increasingly the site of potentially turbulent and intensive occupation as the two cities grow together and increasingly interconnected.
Events:
Biennale Opening Forum “Cultural Education / Bi-City Exchange”, December 4th, 2:00 – 3:00pm, at the Main Pavilion.
BYOB x DETOUR Pecha Kucha Night, a crossover event between the Biennale and DETOUR 2009 (organized by Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design), December 5, 5:00-7:00pm, at the Police Married Quarters, Hollywood Road
Project Team:
Michael Chen, Jason Lee, Cole Reynolds, Tai Li Lee, Roy Zhuang
Fabrication:
Edwin Shum,
Model-Tech ( HK ) Ltd.
www.model-tech.com
Featuring projects by:
Jose Blanco, Joanna Cheung, Andres Correa, Ivan Delgado, Nick Garrate, Allison Hoffman, Heidi Jandris, Kamilla Litvinov, Sebastian Misiurek, Jeos Oreamuno Jun Pak, Anna Perelman, Cole Reynolds, Bradley Rothenberg, John Seward, Jintana Tantinirundr
Crisis Modes Flickr
Images from the recent Crisis Modes workshop conducted by Studio Mode and Crisis Fronts are available to view through the Mode flickr stream. Thanks and congratulations go to all the participants for a tremendous week of learning, discussion, and phenomenal output, and to all who attended the opening and reception on Friday, August 21.
Crisis Modes: Intensive Design and Grasshopper Workshop
We are pleased to announce the schedule and lineup of speakers for the upcoming Crisis Modes Summer Intensive Design workshop. For more information, visit the workshop’s site.
Crisis Modes is a one-week intensive design workshop to be held in New York City from August 17-21.
The workshop will take place in a studio setting and will be devoted to exploring relational design strategies and digital design methodologies for speculative infrastructures. New York City, with its breadth of ecological and urban complexity and in particular its urbanizing industrialized waterways, will be the primary context explored.
The aim of the workshop will be to empower designers to negotiate the complex and data-rich environments that are available through professional mapping and information systems and to develop speculative design proposals through the use of computational techniques and methodologies. Participants will develop design interventions that address emerging ecological crises and opportunities found in New York ecologies of the present and near-future.
The format of the workshop will include daily intensive workshop sessions focusing primarily on Grasshopper, Rhino’s parametric design plug-in, and evening lectures and presentations from practitioners and experts in the fields of sustainability and computational design. The workshop will cover strategic workflows for data set analysis and mapping, complex rule-based geometries, as well as techniques for digital fabrication.
The instructors of the workshop are Michael Chen + Jason Lee [Crisis Fronts] & Ronnie Parsons + Gil Akos [Studio Mode | modeLab]. They have taught design studios, seminars, and workshops at institutions throughout North America, including California College of the Arts, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Cornell University, Pratt Institute, Princeton University, Stevens Institute, and University of Toronto.
The workshop will culminate in a public exhibition and opening event on the evening of Friday, August 21.
Details :
All interested students and professionals are encouraged to attend. All experience levels are welcome.
All participants are required to bring their own laptops. Trial software will be made available.
Workshop Location : Terminal Building | 11th Ave at W 26th St. | Chelsea, Manhattan.
Workshop Hours : 9AM-6PM followed by events listed below.
*Pricing Includes Material and Fabrication Costs.
Schedule :
2009.August.17 | Evening Question + Answer : Riverkeeper | Public Event. 7PM.
2009.August.18 | Evening Screening : “The City Concealed” + “Heart of Gowanus” | Greenpont Video Project | Evening Presentation : Natalie Jeremijenko | NYU xDesign Environmental Health Clinic | Public Event. 7PM.
2009.August.19 | Evening Presentation : “Dining By Design” | Zach Downey | Applied Technology Group at SHoP + designalyze | Public Event. 7PM.
2009.August.20 | Evening Presentation : Dan Sakai | Diller Scofidio + Refro | Highline Walking Tour. 7PM.
2009.August.21 | Cocktail Hour with conversation and work on display. Public Event. 7PM.
2009.August.22 | Gowanus Canoe Trip for interested attendees | Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club | Free Event 1PM.
Dates :
2009.June.05 | Crisis Modes Workshop Announced.
2009.June.22 | Registration Opens.
2009.August.09 | Registration Closes.
Sponsors:
Crisis Modes : Protocols + Future Ecologies
Crisis Modes is a one-week intensive design workshop to be held in New York City from August 17-21.
The workshop will take place in a studio setting and will be devoted to exploring relational design strategies and digital design methodologies for speculative infrastructures. New York City, with its breadth of ecological and urban complexity and in particular its urbanizing industrialized waterways, will be the primary context explored.
The aim of the workshop will be to empower designers to negotiate the complex and data-rich environments that are available through professional mapping and information systems and to develop speculative design proposals through the use of computational techniques and methodologies. Participants will develop design interventions that address emerging ecological crises and opportunities found in New York ecologies of the present and near-future.
The format of the workshop will include daily intensive workshop sessions focusing primarily on Grasshopper, Rhino’s parametric design plug-in, and evening lectures and presentations from practitioners and experts in the fields of sustainability and computational design. The workshop will cover strategic workflows for data set analysis and mapping, complex rule-based geometries, as well as techniques for digital fabrication.
The instructors of the workshop are Michael Chen + Jason Lee [Crisis Fronts] & Ronnie Parsons + Gil Akos [Studio Mode | modeLab]. They have taught design studios, seminars, and workshops at institutions throughout North America, including California College of the Arts, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Cornell University, Pratt Institute, Princeton University, Stevens Institute, and University of Toronto.
The workshop will culminate in a public exhibition and opening event on the evening of Friday, August 21.
Details :
All interested students and professionals are encouraged to attend. All experience levels are welcome.
All participants are required to bring their own laptops. Trial software will be made available.
*Pricing Includes Material and Fabrication Costs.
Dates :
2009.June.05 | Crisis Modes Workshop Announced.
2009.June.22 | Registration Opens.
2009.July.05 | Early Registration Period Closes.
* Early Registration Period extended to 2009.July.22
2009.August.09 | Registration Closes.
Sponsors:
For more information see modeLab.