ARCHITECTURE AND THE CULTURE OF CONTINGENCY

HI GUYS, BY THE LOOK OF THE PHOTOS ON THE WORKING GALLERY BLOG ...

http://www.workinggalleryexhibition-2008.blogspot.com/

YOU HAD A PRODUCTIVE AND EXCITING EVENING. STREAKING IS AN ALMOST FORGOTTEN BUT ESSENTIAL ACT OF UNIVERSITY CULTURE...

SPEAKING OF CULTURE, IN ...

ARCHITECTURE AND THE CULTURE OF CONTINGENCY: ACCOMMODATING THE GENERATIVE SELF

... ROY ASCOTT, HAD SOME INTERESTING, AND I THINK RELEVANT, THINGS TO SAY UNDER A SECTION CALLED "BIOPHOTONS AND MIXED REALITY TECHNOLOGY"

"THIS PARADIGMATIC CHANGE IN ARCHITECTURE IS NOT REGISTERED AT THE LEVEL OF FORM BUT AT THE LEVEL OF BEHAVIOUR. TO GIVE JUST ONE SIMPLE EXAMPLE, OUR EXAGGERATED INTEREST IN WHAT A BUILDING LOOKS LIKE, ITS MERE APPEARANCE, WILL GIVE WAY BY CONTRAST TO THE CONCERN WITH HOW A BUILDING SEES US AND ITS WORLD, THE QUALITY OF ITS GAZE. INSTEAD OF THE EMOTIONS THAT PLACES AND OBJECTS EXERT ON US, WE MIGHT CONSIDER HOW WE COULD EFFECT THEM, HOW PRODUCTS AND STRUCTURES MIGHT RESPOND EMOTIONALLY TO THEIR SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT. QUESTIONS OF THE FORM AND STRUCTURE OF BUILDINGS WILL BE OVERSHADOWED BY AMBITIONS FOR THEIR DYNAMISM AND INTELLIGENCE, THEIR ABILITY TO INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH US, TO COMMUNICATE, LEARN AND EVOLVE. ENGINEERING WILL EMBRACE ONTOLOGY."

WE COULD PROBABLY LINK EACH OF YOUR SCHEMES QUITE DIRECTLY TO THE VARIOUS PROPOSITIONS MADE IN THE ABOVE.

CHEERS