Virtual City or the Wiring and Waning of the World

kwinter-virtual-city.pdfassemblage 29, 1996

Qualitative Dynamics

berman

 

 

All That is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity

Marshall Berman

On Being Modern:

“To be modern,” Marshall Berman writes, “is to be part of a universe in which, as Marx said, ‘all that is solid melts into air’” .Reading across a wide range of modernist moments and texts, from Goethe’s Faust to Robert Moses’ New York Parkway highways, Berman looks for a shared set of “distinctly modern concerns”:

They are moved at once by a will to change—to transform both themselves and their world—and by a terror of disorientation and disintegration, of life falling apart. They all know the thrill and the dread of a world in which “all that is solid melts into air.”

Turhan Yazı

Lineer ve Non-Lineer
  Turhan ARUN

Lineer ve non-lineer kavramlardan arasındaki ilişkiyi anlamaya çalışmadan önce Royal Science ve Nomad Science arasındaki farklılıkları çözmeye çalışmak daha uygun olur.

“nonlinear architecture”-charles jencks

http://www.a-aarhus.dk/design/kd/KD%20generelt/diverse/Artikler/KDJencks.rtf

the waves by thierry kuntzel

At the rear of a very deep room, an extremely large image along with the appropriate sound: the sea, or rather waves, to be precise. No beach, just a thin band of sky. Waves, in their staggered tiers: the nearly flat distance, the formation of the first swells, and then, in the foreground, the breaking wave. Movement and color, like an unstable monochrome, endlessly renewed, between black, blue, gray, green and gold (the sand dragged up by the passing rollers).In the installation what happens to the image and the sound generates a troubling relationship with viewers: while they don’t determine this image and sound, which were recorded earlier, they are the ones who set, or upset the pace thanks to their position in the space.

bergson/time

Henri Bergson’s The Creative Mind

Henri Bergson’s The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics (1946) is a collection of essays and lectures concerning the nature of intuition, explaining how intuition can be used as a philosophical method. Intuition is described as a method of ‘thinking in duration’ which reflects the continuous flow of reality. Bergson distinguishes between intuitive and conceptual thinking, explaining how intuition and intellect may be combined to produce a dynamic knowledge of reality.

on-complexity-in-design

 

SIMPLY THINKING:
If we spot complexity by the attributes of feed-back, interaction, nonlinearity, and self-organization, how do we encounter complexity in design? This was the question we proposed last week during seminar.

I wanted to start today this discussion with Darcy Thompsons description of growth as a force, from Growth and Form.

delanda-deleuze-genetic-algorithm.pdf

Pendulum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum