EKA arhitektuuriteaduskonna avatud loeng: Michael Weinstock / AA School of Architecture
Esineb Michael Weinstock AA Arhitektuurikoolist.
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Algus: 16:30
«System Cities – Infrastructure and the Space of Flows»
A radical shift is taking place in the way that society is thinking about cities, a change from the machine metaphors of the 20th century to mathematical models of the processes of biological and natural systems. From this new perspective, cities are regarded not simply as spatially extended material artefacts but as complex systems that are analogous to living organisms, exhibiting many of the same characteristics. There is an emerging view that the design of the thousands of new cities needed for an expanding world population are to be founded on intelligent and inhabited infrastructural systems or the ‘flow architectures’ of urban metabolisms. The physical arrays of the flow architecture of the city are intimately connected to the networks of subsidiary systems that collect and distribute energy, materials and information. They animate the city, and are coupled to the spatial and cultural patterns of life in the city, to the public spaces through which people flow, and inflect urban morphological and ecological systems.
Michael Weinstock (AA School of Architecture)
Michael Weinstock studied Architecture at the Architectural Association and has taught at the AA School of Architecture since 1989. He is the founder and director of the school’s Emergent Technologies Masters Programme. His research interest lies in exploring the convergence of biomimetic engineering, architecture, emergence and material sciences and has published widely on these topics since 1989. The potential of the convergence for the materialization of intelligent materials, structures, and ultimately, the organization of cities, provides the motivation and suggests the long-term goal. He received Acadia Award for Excellence in 2008.
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Loengusarja toetavad: Eesti Kultuurkapital, Kultuuriministeerium, Tallinna Ettevõtlusamet, LHV pank, Norra Suursaatkond, Rootsi Suursaatkond, Taani Kultuuri Instituut, Briti Nõukogu, Prantsuse Instituut Eestis, USA Suursaatkond, Graphic Concrete Ltd, Haridus- ja Teadusministeerium, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia. Loengute sari kuulub Teadusaasta ürituste hulka.
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