the making of environments for living…

:: the making of environments for living in the age of physical, mental and digital mobilities : is the title of the lecture I gave Monday November 14, 2005 at the Bartlett, London, UK, to students enrolled in the Master of Science Adaptive Architecture and Computation program, and for the BENVACO2 Digital Space and Society module. I had been invited by Ava Fatah gen. Schieck, a Senior Research Fellow at the Bartlett, who I first met in Tokyo at the Metapolis and Urban Life Workshop. She had read Parasites?, the article published in the proceedings of the workshop.

As stated in the course description, “The MSc Adaptive Architecture and Computation replaces the MSc Virtual Environments as the Bartlett’s taught MSc in the field of digital design. It draws on the unique multidisciplinary milieu at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies to bring together designers and programmers in the pursuit of enhanced architectural product and process. The course begins where many leave off, with the realisation that computation is a means, not an end, to bringing about a revolution in how we approach architecture. As such, the course is underpinned by a social theory of architecture, space syntax, which examines the links between the configuration of space, people and society. […]”

My thoughts on automats (as described in Parasites?) had reminded Ava of the coincidental research on ecomorphic design (and introduced to me by Alasdair Turner, Lecturer in Architectural Computing).