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IAP 2018 Activities by Sponsor - Architecture

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Images in Translation

Sam Ghantous, Teaching Fellow in the Department of Architecture

Add to Calendar Jan/08 Mon 10:00AM-05:00PM tbd Arch Studio, Bring Laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/09 Tue 01:00PM-05:00PM tbd Arch Studio, Bring Laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/10 Wed 01:00PM-05:00PM tbd Arch Studio, Bring Laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/11 Thu 01:00PM-05:00PM tbd Arch Studio, Bring Laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/12 Fri 01:00PM-05:00PM tbd Arch Studio, Bring Laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/16 Tue 01:00PM-04:00PM tbd Arch Studio

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/27
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session

This IAP we are conducting a week(ish)-long  investigation into images in translation between virtual and physical material. We will spend our time producing artifacts and sharing conversations about them.

With the ubiquitous presence of the web, our relationship to the world, even architecture, exists more as images than lived experience; this radical flattening has assumed images equivalent value with the real thing. Limits between the real and artificial, the original and copy have dissolved as files are copied and shared. Simultaneously, deep learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence have challenged traditional notions of authorship and the inherited intelligence of the images we ogle.

This workshop will respond to such a context by mining the image’s performance in translation between digital and physical space across multiple iterations. Issues of materiality, as it blurs between pixels and particulates, meshes and deposition contours, nurbs and textiles, will participate in this radical flattening between the real and the digital. Participants will be asked to transform images (with the option to use machine learning processes), physicalize them in unsuspecting ways, and reformat them as new images.

Expect: lectures, tutorials, readings, and critiques, but mostly the space and collective energy invested into producing artifacts.

Participation requires some architectural education, familiarity with 3d software, and fabrication basics.  

Sponsor(s): Architecture
Contact: Sam Ghantous, 617 599-9780, SAMTOUS@MIT.EDU


Walls of Air -The Brazilian Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale

Gabriel Kozlowski, Dept. of Architecture Alumni

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/12
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Grad students in Arch or DUSP

Open only to: Graduate students in the Architecture Dept. and the Dept. of Urban Planning

Preference Given to: Students with skills in mapping, GIS or any type of programming (including grasshopper)

The workshop aims at producing the MAPS that will be exhibited at the Brazilian Pavilion in Venice 2018.

 Students will engage in the following tasks based on their interest:

1) Conceptualization: Elaborate on the arguments and content of the exhibition in collaboration with the São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro teams.

2) Research: Idealize and generate the information that will be displayed on each map.

3) Design: Produce the actual maps by drawing, mapping and visually treating the content gathered in the previous steps;

4) Fabrication: Prototype and envision the potential techniques to physically display them.

Travel: Travel to Italy in May is not included but instructor can facilitate the process through MISTI, which is already in negotiation.

Credits: Students will be properly credited in the exhibition, book and all other media where “Walls of Air” will be displayed.

Introductory MeetingDecember 14th.

Post-IAP: Although not included in the scope of the workshop, the possibility of involvement after IAP until the inauguration of the exhibition can be discussed case by case.

Register by December 12 by emailing gabrielk@mit.edu.

Attendance at all sessions required

 

 

Sponsor(s): Architecture
Contact: Gabriel Kozlowski, N/A, 617-253-7386, gabrielk@mit.edu


Session 1

Add to Calendar Jan/08 Mon 09:00AM-11:00AM TBA, bring laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/09 Tue 09:00AM-11:00AM TBA, bring laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/10 Wed 09:00AM-11:00AM TBA, bring laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/11 Thu 09:00AM-11:00AM TBA, bring laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/16 Tue 09:00AM-11:00AM TBA, bring laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/17 Wed 09:00AM-11:00AM TBA, bring laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/18 Thu 09:00AM-11:00AM TBA, bring laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/22 Mon 09:00AM-11:00AM TBA, bring laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/23 Tue 09:00AM-11:00AM TBA, bring laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/24 Wed 09:00AM-11:00AM TBA, bring laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/25 Thu 09:00AM-11:00AM TBA, bring laptop
Add to Calendar Jan/29 Mon 09:00AM-11:00AM TBA, bring laptop

Gabriel Kozlowski - Dept. of Architecture Alumni


Writing Architecture through Fiction; A world-building + design workshop

Zachary Angles, Instructor, Valentina Rosales, Instructor

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/12
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

This workshop will develop stories in both drawn and textual form to explore and learn meth­ods for translating prose fic­tion into explicit architectural imaginings. The methods borrow from literary and archi­tectural techniques and revel in swerving between these two disciplines. The workshop concentrates on the building of indi­vidual fictions through a series of lessons and exercises that guide students through the abductive process of fictive imagination.

Lessons outline key historical and theoreti­cal threads critical to the project, fictocriticism, and the possibility of a “nar­rative architecture.”

Students can expect to learn about stories, design, and imagination while producing a series of drawings and written stories. There is the possibility for students to develop stories they have already begun writing or to write stories for designs they have already created.

And at the end, we hope to see better stories and better worlds.

 

** Please contact Zachary Angles, to enroll by January 12.** Enrollment limited to 10.

Sponsor(s): Architecture
Contact: Zachary Angles, zangles@mit.edu


Session

Add to Calendar Jan/17 Wed 01:00PM-05:00PM TBA
Add to Calendar Jan/19 Fri 01:00PM-05:00PM TBA
Add to Calendar Jan/22 Mon 01:00PM-05:00PM TBA
Add to Calendar Jan/24 Wed 01:00PM-05:00PM TBA
Add to Calendar Jan/26 Fri 01:00PM-05:00PM TBA

Zachary Angles - Instructor, Valentina Rosales - Instructor