1. Quick Poll: What are the disruptive assertions about the future of the built environment and/or the formats of higher education we should consider?
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Architectural Automations

Matias del Campo 8 years ago • updated by kelbaugh 8 years ago • 1

How can the architectural discipline engage in a conversation about automation in our contemporary world? In the last decade, the conversation on automation and robots in architecture has been primarily dominated by a discussion about the capabilities of the tool to facilitate procedures or to create novel formal vocabularies.These predominantly technical conversation just rarely touches on the larger issues at hand, as to how automation might change aspects of cultural, social and political discourse in the architectural discipline.. 


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kelbaugh 8 years ago

I agree that automation seen as a design and production tool tends to enslave as much as liberate humans. Its stunningly beautiful results can be seductive, but need to address the bigger social, cultural and political issues that reside in both the architecture and urban planning disciplines, as well as in society-at-large. And our scope of responsibility is not only the whole planet, but also the less-advantaged countries to which we owe a debt. With the biggest per capita footprints, we need to use AI and digi-design and fabrication to solve problems, not just titillate the imagination.


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