Streamed live on The Bartlett School of Architecture's YouTube channel, this event will be a discussion between host Gilles Retsin and speaker M. Casey Rehm.
This event forms part of The Bartlett International Lecture Series Autumn 2021.
Abstract:
Contingent
Contemporary models of synthetic intelligence construct meaning through contingent relationships of perceived information. As these tools increase in capability and application, the practice of architecture faces an inflection point through the automation of intellectual labour. Lurking within the efficiencies afforded by this automation exist potential issues of inductive stagnation and increased stratification of agency for designers.
Through the work of the studio, the lecture will explore how leveraging the inherent prometheanist nature of feed-forward intelligence allows us to construct alternative value structures in design. The true generative potential of tools like convolutional neural networks is their ability to reframe our current and a priori data, producing a form of viable expertise outside of the established trajectory of architectural history.
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