Aformal Academy Digital Dialogue #04 - Paper or Code? When the alphabet is a building material скачать в хорошем качестве

Aformal Academy Digital Dialogue #04 - Paper or Code? When the alphabet is a building material

Guests: Amateur Cities (Ania Molenda, Cristina Ampatzidou)  Cartha Magazine (Francisco Moura Veiga, Francisco Ramos Ordonez)  Make Collaborate (Mathieu Bojnowskyj) Urban Next (Ricardo Devesa) The profession is going through a moment of strong re‐configuration due to the complexities of the issues concerning the contemporary human habitat. As remarked by the recent essay “Architecture in the Anthropocene” edited by Etienne Turpin, it is necessary rethinking the entire experiences and practices inherited from the modernity. Nowadays, we see the practice rapidly changing. We believe that the academies’ main task should be rethinking the architect himself. Today the cultural debate concerning the spatial practices, as the prevailing fetishism for the technologies, is made of temporary trend topics which come and go as quickly as we have never seen before. Topics instantly consumed, within the numerous biennials, magazines and symposiums thanks to facebook, instagram, twitter and pinterest and through pictures that most of the times don’t really analise the discussed themes. The presence of web platforms such as Archdaily and Dezeen are contributing to a more and more fast diffusion of projects and researches, through a daily whirlwind of information, promoting, at the same time, their instant obsolescence. Internet completely altered the modalities of presentation and fruition of contents. Even the publishing industry and the research of architecture on paper have tried to adapt themselves and to react to this condition. We can see numerous editorial practices that are recently moving to the web, changing the old temporality of the paper magazines. At the same time most of these platforms detach from the traditional magazines and from the already existing platforms, preferring a more open approach that often “touches” the social sciences, rather than the classic presentation of the architectural project. During the roundtable we will try to explore these territories talking with the editors of some of the most recent and interesting experimental cases.