I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony
like pure water touching clear sky.
Richard Brautigan
As our world becomes ever more uncertain the role of how architecture can actively participate and respond within this environment is of consequence. Dominant discursive arguments of today fall back on historical crutches and habit. In contrast to this we live in a technological sphere that is radically altering our communication, experience and understanding of the world. If the early experiments in design research labs such as the Architecture Machine Group at MIT served as precursor to the communication revolution that we have witnessed. Today algorithms, artificial intelligence, bio hacking, robotics, augmented reality, and machine learning are the dominant frontiers for interrogation. If one considers the current situation much of what these systems are being designed for reinforce and bias a world as is rather than the possibilities of enabling a more collective and shared tomorrow.
The symposium will engage a series of discussions about things, agency, and us. The event aims to speak to the forces that shape the way we see and understand through the eyes of a machinic world. Through human and non-human entanglements, the world today is plural and encoded as information; issues of codification, control, bias, learning, and computational creativity will be examined and discussed as open territories that may discussed as means to actively identify and participate in the pressing complexities of this world. The symposium is organised and will be moderated by the Director of the AADRL Theodore Spyropoulos.
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