Collision

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About Collision

This course explores the emerging field of design for networked bodies in physical space. We will examine the ethical, aesthetic and architectural challenges of actively engaging the dynamic information that defines our networked lives. Open source innovation empowers the individual over states and organizations as the technology that drives social media develops. At the same time, advances in robotics, informatics and remote sensing create situations where individual social interactions become remote, disembodied and sometimes dangerous: wars are fought by drones controlled from video consoles thousands of miles away. In this hands-on, project-based studio course, we use design exercises to develop a new design language for embodied information and the architectural bodywear or structures to facilitate it. The ideological framing will draw from theories and practice in new media, cybernetics, information design, film, art, and fashion.
This seminar/workshop is taught in two parts. The Monday Night@VAP lecture series entitled ‘Collision’, co-curated with VAP Director Ute Meta Bauer, will explore the intersection or ‘collision’ of scientific research and artistic production. Speakers include Gediminas Urbonas, Carlo Ratti, Armin Linke, Sebastian Seung, and others. The series will be open to the public, and will be a lab for the course.