Nowadays new developments in longer existing technologies have an astonishing influence on the everyday. Hence, we will look into and at robotics and artificial intelligence. We will familiarize with both, where they came from and why they got influential. The aim is to explore what consequences those may have in Architecture in the widest scope, what techniques they might foster.
In general technologies and techniques are inseparable from Architecture. Moreover, at any time some Architects dared to evolve their ideas according or in resistance to the latest, at the time most complicated technologies, the most advanced media, or tried to develop so fare unknown techniques. One may say those people culturalised or tamedtechnology in making them constitutively for their architectural idea.
The resulting architectural diversity is stretched out in the course of the lecture. By polarizing and at the same time fusing architecture topics such as, 'Encapsulating & Adaption', 'Organism & Network' or 'Psyche & Apparatus', to name a few.
Projects from 20th to the beginning of 21th century will be discussed. They get analyzed towards both, how, at different times those ideas got turned into concepts of architecture, and, how these processes generated the sources of their own poetics and how they reshaped established meanings.
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Literature on space, culture and technology:
Space
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European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (2018): Statement on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and ‘Autonomous’ Systems
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Culture
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Technology
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International Journal of Social Robotics 3, pp. 197-204.
SIMONDON, G. (2012): Die Existenzweise technischer Objekte; Diaphanes: Zürich, Switzerland.
Winner, L. (1987): Do Artifacts have Politics? In: The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology; University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL, USA.
Some information on the related research project H.A.U.S. at the department ATTP http://h-a-u-s.org
