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What Pervasive Computing Can Learn from Architecture, Talk at Yahoo! Research Berkeley

[06.2007]

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What I managed to touch on over the course of an hour and a half: Pervasive computing is Not XybernautNot TowlieTowelie, (also known as Toweleeeie or Stephen McTowelie), is a recurring character in the animated series South Park, voiced by Vernon Chatman. He is a talking "RG-400 Smart Towel" manufactured by Tynacorp, designed to automatically be able to adjust his absorbency level depending on the dampness of the surface he is used on. He is usually seen either giving towel-related advice to the citizens of South Park or, more often, getting high on marijuana (sometimes accompanied by the theme song from Popeye). Towelie often falsely claims that drugs improve his memory and/or make him smarter.Software Envelope. We are already in. Gas pump, etc. ‘disappearing arch’ thesis. History of “Program” in architecture. Making the visible invisible (arch into network) Making the invisible visible. (network into arch)Architecture as Interaction Design:To design a door knob is interaction design but so is, more importantly, deciding where to put the door: program. Architecture as Interaction Metaphor. Second Life  (Virt that becomes real )Google Earth (real that becomes Virt)Two types of designers. Inside the glass window and outside the glass window.There is no UML for arch program, nor can there be. Adaptive re-use. Program form axis is only provisional. City/Program Historical Typologies “Pre-Modern”:    Immobile bodies in fixed places. Program as a diagram of immanent social roles.  Social form: Mechanical solidarity.“Modern”:    Mobile bodies in fixed gridded spaces. Program as rationalization of function. Social form: Organic solidarity.“Postmodern”: Inert bodies in fluid cyberspaces.Program as transprogramming into software. Social form: Interplay of signs “Supermodern”: Mobile bodies in infinite, mobile city. Program as interplay of physical and digital interfaces Social form: Shifting network boundariesKinds of Program::Maya program, full body, not plan or feet..Habitus. Lefebvre. Bourdieu Archaeology, extant debris. Habit/habitat//diagramming social (cosmology of church)/ training social. Generative diagrams: Foucault, Fourier.Foucault, floating diagrams. Translationism, extruded plan..Modernism, Form follows function, rationalization of secular space.Tafuri’s critique, Colin Rowe, Archigram, Independent Group, entourage, Tschumi, violence.68, possibiliy and impossibiliytKoolhaas, projective indeterminancyScripting forms. Vertical integration, chrysler building toArch, network, urbanism, plan, exploded anatomyDiagram of interrelationship, contiguitty? CCTVEventNon-places… codes, repeat, economic codes.Projective Gaming, relational aesthetics, situation. FRoche Brand Space (arch now free of program, can be play?)(arch as advertising) Projective CinemaHomecourt, videogames, WTC competitionProjective Program???Media Arts as Programmatic Projection, as models for integration of software and architecture….‘Transprogramming’ Msoft Home problem. Arch program, hab program, soft  program. How merge? Activate? Transprogramming, bank to quicken. Images of program:Archaeology, habit habitat, lefebvre. Fourier.CCTV.Jencks, iconicty. Iconic form. But what is the image of program?2nd Life. Dassault Systems 3D Scales, Progressions and Transprogrammings. Scales Boeing.ArchitectureMediaContent.Immersion.Scales of concept (glow)
Orb. d-Tower. Allianz. Evolution and dematerialization of a concept Spectacle of Transparency. Johnson House. Groningen. Listening Post.Evolution and dematerialization of a program.Bank (banco, desk) Teller window. ATM Website(and back again). Architecture and Computation “triple occupancy”- design-construction.-material.Progressions.Ambient orb >> d-tower >> allianz arena (scale of chromatic binary) Johnson house >> groningen pavillion >> listening post (aestheics of disappearing) False Transparency.Historical Progression.Program as liturgical form (foucault, fourier).Program as functional modern (buildings for research, Rowe, Mies, see praxis article). Program as intertextuality (tshumi, koolhaas).Program as computational logistics (supermodernism, seattle, listening post) shed and duck. Progression of UrbanForms. Gemeinshaft.Gessellshaft.Post-industrial.Types of Projects.Sensate surfaces. Art com.CMO.UN Studio, galleria west. V into R. CMO.RLH.3rd Window.Leeser.Electronic Orphanage.Amo’s prada. H&dM’s prada tokyo, lense distortion.Environmental Ad Units. Google. Digital signage. Advertising, times square. RFID replaces life of cookie.Apple’s remote wifi…RLH subtitled publics. Marie Sester, surveillance. Legrady Seattle. Virtual graffitti. Winka, enhancing spatiality.Oosterhuis, protospace//asymptote, virtual stock exchange, Mscapes.Mediaspaces. Interviews series. A+D Agenda. Pascual S. Push Pull. Post-Post-industrial. from Greenfeld, Moore’s Law and the scattering of processors, Sympathetic meta-agency intervening, Pervasive comp is not hardware or software, but a type of solution.Information processing dissolving into behavior, program. Ipv6, 10 23, Project oxygen, Gershenfeld, Towlie, Xybernaut, Advocate for bottom up thinking, greenfeld, everyware

Tags: architecture, mobility, branding

Published: 06.26.2007

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