Thesis Abstract attempt 01

Plug in Ecologies:

                An exploration into the potential that exist both latently and obviously present within the ecologies of datascapes and their relational qualities to the physical. In specifically in the realm of data transfer and the phenomena of the Internet as an infrastructure that encompasses potentials for interventions and defining the participation and interactivity among inhabitants to spam globally. Situated within multiple scales ranging between the scope of a globalize network of sub marine cables and satellites that floods our lower earth orbit (LEO) the geocentric orbit. Down to the user and the body that is plug into a realm of 0's and 1's that decode the virtual world before being processed and manifested back into the physical world.

                What is the relationship between this global infrastructure of data and the built environment.  Work that starts to explore how the internet as a source of collective memory and collective engagements begins to manifest into parameters and variables the control, depict, and or visualize the built environment. What is the outcome of the cross breeding between formal qualities of space, time and light be with the infusion of data, media, and collective engagements, while stimulating and ever change and streaming source of data and information.

                Through embedded computation and kinetics, sensors, actuators, motors, and arduino will start to manipulate and represent conceptual provocations of space, form, atmospheric, and representation. In a constant search of a representational technique that justify the streaming flow of information of the internet and its relationship as a collective filter and memory to inform something tangible.  Providing instructions from crowd sourcing to manipulate representations, space, and time.

                An environment that starts to visualize the engagement between the internet, and the data to the built environment. Producing a series of iterative of drawings of the internet and data using processing to decode the data. Balanced with a series of artifacts that communicate a level of live engagement between the stream of information with a spatial environment.

                What does it mean to be within a "plug in" ecologies. A virtual network that starts to invoke interplay be the virtual and the physical. The blur between scales and the fusion of participation, taking a architectural object that is subjective to its context and environment and making it conform and situated its self in a next context virtually within the global world. 

Revisions

The House as Thesis revisions...

The Gambits...

The artifact,

House as Thesis?

Plug - In and Streaming Ecology:

House as Thesis becomes the House to House the Thesis. 

A House within a House, within a "House" that is Plug - In to Streaming Data Ecology.

Aaron Koblin: Data visualization artist

Aaron Koblin :

Flight Patterns: LINK

House of Cards

Links:

Aaron Koblin
the making of "house of cards"

Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex

(http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html)

New collective way of approaching interdisciplinary works of architecture?  

Questions:

How can a computer programmer / medical student / law student / chemist / biologist / physicist aid or contribute to an architect in articulating formal moves, architecture, space, etc etc... 

Jonathan Harris: the Web's secret stories

(http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jonathan_harris_tells_the_web_s_secret_stories.html)

Jonathan Harris @ number27

he quotes "how we relate to our machines and to each other" 

Currently on my mind.

Think about how a collective / collaboration of technology and parametric computing and this new role that architects now play as data managers and inform new architecture that might resembles a form of meta organism that shapes and evolves with a collection of data and information and in return transcribes into a new reality. A form or space / environment; "architecture" Trying to really push the ideology of our current species capabilities, which goes beyond our individual capacity. I've heard this phrase before, "that no one person now knows or have the ability to make a pencil" no one person "can aquire the wood, lacquer, printed labeling, and graphite need to composed a pencil." 

We have acquire the ability to DO beyond our capacities. This is he evolution of man and the evolution of man understanding space. 

Attempt:

To push parametric into a realm where its more than a command and an output but a systematic, interconnection, communication, and collective server of data and commands and relational formulas.

- crowd sourcing  ? 

- accelerated design ?

- a constant never ending loop within a shift of ideas information and spacial context "gestalt - shift"

- imaging "storm front" that our world is a moving storm. the approach of the storm is upon the horizon. 

- as architects we infuses our self into a position where we digest and collect information / data / culture / etc.. from this storm as we use our specialty to comprehend and produce architecture. 

Lexicon_06: Peter Sloterdijk

Peter Sloterdijk: "Air / Condition"


weather (topic-based)


1. of or pertaining to an atmospheric state 2. a collision of natural forces 


psychoactive (descriptive / active) 


1. of or pertaining to a substance having a profound or significanteffect on mental processes

Lexicon_05: Manuel De Landa

Manuel De Landa: "A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History"

(http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/history-books/477-7.jpg)

Lexicon_04: Mark Wigley

Mark Wigley: "Recycling Recycling"

"like bodies, can be prosthetically transformed and dispersed. Inside the ever larger, interconnected, and entangled network that envelops the planet are layers of concepts that evolve and interact continuously like the weather. It is in this intricate play between organic processes, economies, technologies, and concepts tat the nuances of McHale's understanding of ecology lies."

Lexicon_03: Keller Easterling

Keller Easterling: "Introduction"

(http://www.berilguvendik.com/images/portfolio/hani_4_med.jpg)

Lexicon_02: Sanford Kwinter

Sanford Kwinter: "Wildness"

(from reading)

Lexicon_01: Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson: "A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey"

(http://www.thenation.com/sites/default/files/images/media/doc/a9e/1242319091-large.jpg)

Stormfront

STORM

• noun: 1 a violent disturbance of the atmosphere. 2 an uproar or controversy. 3 a fierce outburst of a specified intuition or reaction. 4 a heavy discharge of objects. 5 a sudden heavy influx or onset. !6 a violent assault on a defended position

• verb: 1 move forcefully in a specified direction. 2 suddenly advance and capture 3 intensely vocalize

FRONT

• noun: 1 the side or part of an object that presents itself to view or that is initially exposed. 2 the position directly ahead. 3 any face of a building, especially that of the main entrance. 4 the foremost line of an armed force 5 the boundary of an advancing mass of air. 6 a particular situation or sphere of operation. 7 a deceptive appearance or mode of behavior. 8 boldness and confidence of manner 9 a position of leadership or superiority! 10 a person, group, or thing used to mask the identity or true character or activity of the actual controlling agent

STORM FRONT

• noun: 1 an aggressive stride demonstrating an embodied or apparent passion. 2 an unstable embedded mass intertwined into and altering its context. 3 a barrage of ideas formulated from the surrounding environment offering a noticeable and intense alteration to patterns, attention, and intensities. 4 the scale of the atmosphere to the detail of material. 5 a sign of imminent squall. 6. the sudden attack and capture of a site. 7 induced joyous anticipation of significant disturbance. 8 the cause of significant weather. 9 amplification of observation and anomalies. 10 one hell of a maneuver.

LOGICS AND LOGISTICS:

10.05.15. efforts commence to establish research in an observational and empirical basis into a charged condition seen as an instigator of work that amplifies infused interests in the realm(s) connecting architecture and atmosphere, ecology, geographies, energy, materials, and aberrant systems. Initial steps include the development and defense of terminology, a design exercise that prompts a stance, and logs of demonstrative correlations. To position both material and theoretical research in all cases, the definition and role of thesis will be investigated through existing examples, topics of related discourse, and group discussions. Input will be sought from a range of disciplinary domains and voices that will interrogate the work from the outside as we advance its compression and expansion from the inside. Strands of interest will be scrutinized at multiple scales to challenge design positioning conceptually and physically. Storm Front will conclude with robust demonstrations of the depth and breadth of these efforts on 11.04.27.