IAAC Global Summer School 2017 - New York

Collaboration with: IAAC > Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia ,DesignMorphine , Terreform ONE , MEAL - Middle East Architecture Laboratory , NJIT -- College of Architecture & Design , New Lab

Cities are continuously produced through entropic processes that mediate between complex networked systems and the immediacy urban life. Emergent media technologies inform new relationships between information and matter, code and space to redefine new urban ecosystems. The NY GSS aims at investigating emerging forms of reading and producing PUBLIC SPACES re- imagining the physical city through intelligent and mediated processes.

Through data agency and responsive urban processes, the NY GSS will explore the connection between the production of emergent forms of URBANITY and fabrication/robotic/responsive practices. Focus will be placed on the feedback mechanism between scales, investigating the continuous loop between the micro and the macro relationships that occur in public spaces. The city of New York will be the expanded site of exploration. The investigations will critically reflect on the city as the shared, the common, the civic and the social-public enterprise.

Generative design and computationally driven processes will take place throughout the program. A series of lectures from leading academics and international invited guests will construct the theoretical framework of the GSS, integrating and expanding the learning modules, with a final exhibition and promotion of the work.