February 2010
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Industrial Ecology - a Post Modern Science? →
Wikipedia defines industrial ecology as a “systems-based, multidisciplinary discourse that seeks to understand emergent behaviour of complex integrated human/natural systems”. The paper found at the link above (Allenby, B. (2006) ‘The ontologies of industrial ecology?’ IN: progress in Industrial Ecology - An International Journal, Vol 3, Nos 1/2 pp28-40) discusses this...
Symposium: "Positioning Global Systems" →
Just found this symposium at Yale School of Architecture on systems, networks and the relation local/global:
“This symposium explores the relationship between networks and locality in the built environment. New innovations in communication and information technologies form the basis of an expanding virtual geography. Yet the physical manifestations of our interfaces with these systems are...
The death of the 'auteur'
The authorship of the architectural work seems to get increasingly dispersed and blurred – not only by the direct use of and reliance on expert systems (see Anthony Giddens) embedded in the new (software) tools of the architect but also due to the fact that creation or genesis increasingly takes place in subsystems – physical as well as processual - that interface in the final physical result. The...
I/O and in between networks 1:24’
start
12:03 left network culture class - went for lunch
12:05 took out cell phone and turned on normal (loud) profile
12:06 connected - returned phone to pocket
12:12 bought lunch
12:18 back at library study carrel
12:20 looked for phone to turn on meeting (semiloud) profile – phone not there
12:21 disconnected
12:23 opened laptop
12:24 connected to airpenn net – skype...
January 2010
3 posts
Kazys' blog-course blog →
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