reykjavik lecture 03.2010

ABUNDANCEor: serious story-telling

Reykjavik, 22 MAR 2010

ludger hovestadtarchitecture, computer science

vera bühlmannphilosophy, media science

/ ITAInstitute of Technology in Architecture / Faculty of Architecture / ETH Zurich / Chair for CAAD / Prof. Dr. L. Hovestadt / Dr. V. Bühlmann / Reykjavik / 03.10 / 2


Zürich, Switzerland



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Chair of Computer Aided Architectural Design CAAD

• Design• Production• Infrastructures


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/ ITAInstitute of Technology in Architecture / Faculty of Architecture / ETH Zurich / Chair for CAAD / Prof. Dr. L. Hovestadt / Dr. V. Bühlmann / Reykjavik / 03.10 / 10 Benjamin Dillenburger

/ ITAInstitute of Technology in Architecture / Faculty of Architecture / ETH Zurich / Chair for CAAD / Prof. Dr. L. Hovestadt / Dr. V. Bühlmann / Reykjavik / 03.10 / 11 Benjamin Dillenburger

/ ITAInstitute of Technology in Architecture / Faculty of Architecture / ETH Zurich / Chair for CAAD / Prof. Dr. L. Hovestadt / Dr. V. Bühlmann / Reykjavik / 03.10 /

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BEYOND THE GRID


laboratory for applied virtuality

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applying virtuality

for a culture of negotiation when dealing with: future developments

possibilities potentialities

as the possibility of systematical beyond-the-grid-thinking

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Globalization describes an ongoing process by which

regional economies, societies, and cultures have

become integrated through a globe-spanning network of communication and trade.

denote activities that are essentially driven by the ongoing and socially constituted negotiation of their „objects“ (meaning / value)

communication dealing with meaning trade dealing with value

tradecommunicationnetworks

mechanisms in networks these relations, strictly speaking, are mere mappings. one set, under certain conditions, can be represented as another set.

Stepping from geometrical analysis to topological analysis

from every to any

mechanisms in gridsFunctions establish relations as lines of cause and effect between one

area and another.

y = f(x) links one set of variables y with another set of variables x.

Departing from assumed states that can be described.

from grids

What if instances belong to several sets at one and the same time?

If there are no objective states to be determined?

construction within the symbolic

from functions

to the mapping of functions

to networks

abstraction within network-thinking:

The Differential dx / dy is the

abstraction of mechanistic

functions.It formulates the space of potential of the any within managable conditions of integration

abstraction within grid-thinking every

networks will have to help

us in learning how to paste

grids have helped us immensly in learning

how to copy any

a culture of negotiation

relies on our capacities to imagine.

not on deriving facts and necessities

engaging with the

conditions of integrability

... in terms of

narrative infrastructures

Research at the laboratory for applied virtuality at ETH Zurich equally draws from the pragmatism and the projective space of possibility proper to the engineering sciences, as well as from the power of invention and symbolization proper to philosophy

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the ABUNDANCE initiative

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or: serious story-telling


CRISIS? what CRISIS

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cool it !

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Chart 9: World GDP and steel production growth(Levels)

Source: derived from various sources, especially Maddison (2003) and Mitchell (2003).

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we do have a CRISIS of the RATIONAL not of ENERGY

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what is the RATIONALwhat is ENERGY / NATURE

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it's all about the stones ...


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Enzyklopädie(n)

Versuche, das gesamte Wissen in einer systematische Ordnung darstellen und speichern zu können.

Probleme:Was ist „Wissen“?

Wie soll man die Dynamik und Offenheit des „Wissens“ abbilden?institute for applied virtuality

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ELECTRICITY and the crisis of INTUITION

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they accepted the limits of the rational ...

DeleuzeSerresGödel

LagrangesEuler

Foucault

Fourier

Turing

Wittgenstein

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... with phantastic new perspectives


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Tesla's US390721 Patent for a "Dynamo Electric Machine"67




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the phantastic of CONSUMPTIONand the limits of PRODUCTION

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PRINTED PHYSICS and the theory of ABUNDANCE in production

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monday : all the oiltuesday : all the gaswednesday : all the uraniumthursday : a lot of the coalfriday : more of the coalsaturday : most of the coalsunday : the rest of the coal

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off

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there is plenty of energy aroundand there is a little in the ground

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inhabiting the atmosphere



welcome to the

metalithicuminstitute for applied virtuality

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the METALITHICUM a culture based on ABUNDANCE instead of SCARCITY

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16 m2 solar for 1m3 desalted water per day


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casestudy ICELAND

- geothermal / solar / water energy - green houses - aluminium and other applications- COPY / PASTE from everywhere to cultivate the country- the question of population as potential to integrate

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