A B-Pro History and Theory lecture series, highly recommended for Architectural Design, Urban Design and Architectural Computation students as well as interested professionals.
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Bradley Cantrell:
Adaptive Epistemology: failure, nascent vocabularies, and new wilds
This talk will outline a view of the built environment that is critical to develop for designers in the coming century. The problems we face are larger than ever before, are embedded with infinite complexity, and are outside of our cultural understanding. Landscape Architecture and the landscape itself can provide a sinuous connection between our lives, the architecture we inhabit, the urbanism that expresses our desire, and the environments that sustain our very existence. The interface between the built environment and evolving biological and geological systems requires a blurring of previous strategies to address nascent forms of simulation, sensing, logistics, biological engineering, and technological interface to question the dichotomy of the constructed and the natural.
Most importantly, this landscape, the terra, the aqueous bodies and the atmospheric envelopes must be reimagined, both regarding how we see and relate to it but also in how we propose our future. We have positioned the discipline of landscape architecture as a body of knowledge that can design across scales and produce controlled scenarios from the molecule to the territory, but we are still proposing a future based on the praxis that was defined by modernism, a quest for truths and subsequent propositions that are couched in certainty.
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