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Unconventional Computing & Architecture

Unconventional Computing & Architecture
  • On February 10, 2010
  • http://www.ruairiglynn.co.uk

Coming up in London soon, the one-day conference explores new materials for architectural practice in the 21st century. International architects and scientists will explore the decision-making properties of matter and how this may be applied to create increasingly life-like buildings.

Organised by The Bartlett’s Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research (AVATAR) group, the conference aims to bring together architects and scientists who are working with new technologies that are capable of self-assembly and organization. Such technologies may form the basis for architecture generated by unconventional computing techniques which range from the actions of protocells, (entirely synthetic DNA-less agents), slime moulds (simple organisms with very complex behaviours), crystalline computing (using the organizing properties of molecules) and algae (that can be engineered to respond to environments in new ways). Neil Spiller founded the AVATAR Group in 2004, whose interdisciplinary research agenda explores all manner of digital and visceral terrain and considers the impact of advanced technology on architectural design, engaging with cybernetics, aesthetics, and philosophy to develop new ways of manipulating the built environment.

Speakers:

Neil Spiller (University College London)
Rachel Armstrong (University College London)
Evan Douglis (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Paul Preissner (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Lisa Iwamoto (University of California, Berkeley)
Philip Beesley (University of Waterloo)
Nic Clear (University College London)
Martin Hanczyc (University of Southern Denmark)
Ben de Lacy Costello (University of West England
Simon Park (University of Surrey)
Lee Cronin (University of Glasgow)

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