Homenagem a Fernando Lisboa

1 JULHO 2008
FAUP


18.00-19.30h

Abertura - Francisco Barata

Percurso Visual - Isabel e Fernanda Lisboa

A Semiótica da Amizade - Vasco Branco

O Rigor das Palavras - Marco Ginoulhiac

A Obra Escrita do Fernando - Gonçalo Furtado

Uma Teoria de Projecto - Domingo Tavares

In Memoria de Fernando Lisboa - Francisco Guedes de Carvalho -

Depois do Choque, Depois do Pós-Digital - António Meireles

Ensaiando um Modelo de Ensino e Investigação no CAD - Rui Póvoas

O Meu Orientador de PAC - Andreia Soutinho

Esboço para uma Continuidade - José Pedro Sousa

Em Memória de Conversas Inesquecíveis - João Paulo Moura

Geometria Construtiva: Um Projecto Inacabado - João Pedro Xavier

Na Mesa com Fernando Lisboa - Rui Braz Afonso




19.30-20.00h

Arquicoro: Couro Aberto da Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto

Swing low, sweet chariot - Espiritual

Odi et Amo - Carl Orff

Amazing Grace - John Newton

Ave Verum Corpus - W. A. Mozart

Dona Nobis Pacem - Cantata tradicional

Acordai - Fernando Lopes Graça/José Gomes Ferreira

works by my first year students_2008_sergio rodrigues

Works by my first year students_ Ana Lourenço 2008

In memoriam

Homenagem a Fernando Lisboa
FAUP, 1 de Julho de 2008, 18.00.

Arquicouro, 19.30

- Swing low, sweet chariot (Espiritual)
- Odi et Amo (Carl Orff)
- Amazing Grace (John Newton)
- Ave verum corpus (W. A. Mozart)
- Dona nobis pacem (Cantata tradicional)
- Acordai (Fernando Lopes Graça/José Gomes Ferreira)

diogo da silva_works by my first year students_2008

joaquim barroso_work by my first year students

vanessa iglesias_ work by my first year students_2008

renata moreira_work by my first year students_2008

"Consciousness Reframed 9"

The Planetary Collegium’s IXth International Research Conference:
Consciousness Reframed 9

Vienna
3-5 July 2008

Content:
The Ambiguity of Self: living in a variable reality
ROY ASCOTT - University of Plymouth, UK / Planetary Collegium
Syncretia
ELIF AYITER - Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey / Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, UK
Holarchy & Team Consciousness: syncretizing difference to co-create a synergy-of-synergies
JOHN BACKWELL - Goldsmiths University of London, UK
Realities from the Unconscious, or Reprogramming Digital Sub(con)texts
RENÉ BAUER - University of the Arts Zurich, Switzerland
Function of Unfunctionality: wearable forms in life and art
LAURA BELOFF - University of Helsinki, Finland / Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, UK
Ekphrasis and a Dynamic Mysticism in Art: reflections on Henri Bergson’s philosophy and Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas
MARTHA BLASSNIGG - University of Plymouth, UK
Presence and Atmosphere - Notes on the Conscious: invention of reality, social interaction, and a new event structure
INGRID BÖCK - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
The A-Historical Act
WULF WALTER BÖTTGER - Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
From Life to Life - The Multiplicity of the Living
PIER LUIGI CAPUCCI - Universities of Bologna and Urbino / NABA / Planetary Collegium - M-Node, Italy
Polymorphic Museum
SIMONA CARACENI - Universities of Bozen, Florence and Bologna / Planetary Collegium - M-Node, Italy
Reproducing the Past - Alienating the Body: digital time and re-enactment
ANTONIO CARONIA - Academy of Fine Arts Brera, Milan / NABA / Planetary Collegium - M-Node, Milan, Italy
Perception and its Transformation: fine-tuning in between states
LINDA CASSENS STOIAN - Independent artist, theorist, Basel, Switzerland
Regarding the Orgiastic as a Strategic Means to Reinvest Perceptions of Realities
ISABELLE CHOINIÈRE - Corps Indice, Montréal, Canada / Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, UK
Bergson, Bohm, and the Delayed-Image
DAVID CRAWFORD - Gothenborg University, Sweden
The Syncretic Realm of Nikola Tesla
NINA CZEGLEDY - KMDI University of Toronto and Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
Untitled
DERRICK DE KERCKHOVE - University of Toronto, Canada / Planetary Collegium - M-Node, Italy
Imaging Technological Structures for Organization of Biological Consciousness and Aesthetic Experience
MARGARET DOLINSKY - Indiana University, Bloomington, USA / Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, UK
Constructed Bodies: can biomedical instruments become tools of selfperception?
HANNAH DRAYSON - University of Plymouth, UK
Seeing Things - Ghosts in the Machine
ALAN DUNNING - Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada
PAUL WOODROW
University of Calgary, Canada
The Art of Programming or Programs as Art
ERNEST EDMONDS - University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Design Discourse and Discourse Design: reflections on conveyence matter
JÜRGEN FAUST - MFM University, Munich, Germany / IED, Milan, Italy / Monterrey Tec, Mexico / Planetary Collegium - M-Node, Italy
Recombinant Ecologies of the Social
WOLFGANG FIEL - Vienna University of Technology, Austria / Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, UK
Emergent Social Architectures - Transformed Senses of Belonging
ANDREAS LEO FINDEISEN - Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Amplified Movements: an enactive approach to sound in interaction design
KARMEN FRANINOVIC - University of the Arts Zurich / Planetary Collegium - Z-Node, Switzerland
Envisioning an Evolving Environment: the encounters of Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer - a brief account
GONÇALO M FURTADO C L - University of Porto, Portugal
Digital Oracles and the Search Dictatorship
MARTHA CARRER CRUZ GABRIEL - NMD - New Media Developers / University of Anhembi Morumbi / University of São Paulo, Brazil
New Realities: choices in virtual worlds - using boundary/borders theories
GREGORY P. GARVEY - Quinnipiac University, Hamden, USA
Blue Morph: ritual metamorphosis of art | science realms
JAMES GIMZEWSKI - University of California, Los Angeles, USA / Planetary Collegium
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VICTORIA VESNA - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Heteronymia in Dataspace
LUIS MIGUEL GIRÃO - Artshare, Ida, Aveiro, and Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal / Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, UK
Empathy and Interactivity: exploiting empathic circuits between audiences and interactive arts
TINA GONSALVES - University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Real Virtuality: immersion and perception of virtual architecture in multi-user virtual environments
JOCHEN HOOG - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
A Semiotic Approach to Visitor Interaction, Participation and Perspective in Digital Arts
BIRGIT HUEMER - University of Vienna, Austria
IT Revolution and New Realities in Korea: syncretic aspects of Korean digilog-culture
JUNG A. HUH - Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Technologically-Aware Ecosystems in Art and Society
SALVATORE IACONESI - Independent artist, Rome, Italy
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ORIANA PERSICO - Independent artist, Rome, Italy
Futility is Resistance! Toy-object, Schwarzgerät and Dingpolitik in Ludic Research Objectives
MARGARETE JAHRMANN - University of the Arts Zurich, Switzerland / Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, UK
Experiential Digital Media for the Lived World
PAMELA JENNINGS - Banff New Media Institute, Canada
Roomforthoughts: imagining the subjective experience of psychosis with installation art as a creative tool of knowledge
JENNIFER KANARY - University of Amsterdam and Gerrit Rietveld Academy, NL / Planetary Collegium - M-Node, Italy
The Geography of the Unseen
NICOLAJ KIRISITS - University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
This Is (not) a Syndrome: pillow research - multiple diagnoses and hidden talents
BERND KRAEFTNER - Research Centre for Shared Incompetence / University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Passage: a hybrid between interactive installation and performance
MARTIN KUSCH - kondition pluriel / University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Artificial Life System for the Production of Cinematographic Narration
IRO LASKARI - National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Spatial Uncertainty and Military Avoidance: Duchamp, direct and indirect strategies
KIERAN LYONS - University of Wales, Newport, UK
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SEMI RYU - Virginia Commonwealth University, USA / Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, UK
20 Mistakes Make Me Wonder_ (take #2)
MIGUEL SANTOS - Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Neuro-Media
JILL SCOTT - Zurich University of the Arts / Planetary Collegium, Z-Node, Switzerland
Reducing Pain in Alternative Immersive Environments: a proposal
JINSIL SEO - Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Solar Display: a self sustainable communication display for media facades
CHRISTA SOMMERER - University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz, Austria
Bits of Behavior /Concepts prior to Words: the emotional intuition of form
BARBARA STAFFORD - The University of Chicago, USA / Planetary Collegium
Is there a Role and Function for Today’s Heterogeneous Knowledges in the Global Culture Industry?
RENÉ STETTLER - Neue Galerie Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland / Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, UK
Building Familiarity: Heidegger in architectural design
RANDALL TEAL - University of Idaho, USA
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FEDERICA TIMETO - Academy of Fine Arts ABADIR, Palermo / Planetary Collegium - M-Node, Italy
Cultural Computing - Zenetic Computer
NAOKO TOSA - Kyoto University, Japan
Art-Quantum Physics-Subjectivity
SARAH TREMLETT - University of the Arts London, UK
Reductionism Reframed
NICHOLAS TRESILIAN - International Society for the Study of Time
Virtual Sensations - Metaphors of the Forest
SUZETE VENTURELLI - University of Brasília, Brazil
A Fascination by Waves - Brain Interface Art and EEG
LENARA VERLE - Sito Electronic Arts / Unisinos University, Porto Alegre, Brazil
The Mediated Singularity: human use as a passport to technological innovation
NATASHA VITA-MORE - Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, Plymouth, UK
Surface Conscious: emerging material technologies in ceramic skins
JASON OLIVER VOLLEN - University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Untitled
PETER WEIBEL - University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria / ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Krasis (Ennoia)
MONIKA WEISS - Washington College, Chestertown, USA / Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, UK
The Architect’s Circle, or The Geometrical Incline of Truth
CLAUDIA WESTERMANN - Vienna University of Technology, Austria / Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, UK
Hybrid Architecture Hyper Functions
MANFRED WOLFF-PLOTTEGG - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Memory - Image - Archive: few remarks on the art of Roman Opalka and the practice of photo archiving
KATARZYNA MARIA WOZNIAK - Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
A Transdisciplinary Experimental Platform for the Art / Science / Technology Dialogue in the Educational Context
MARIELA YEREGUI - Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Mind Cupola: towards a consciousness altering device
BRIGITTA ZICS - University of Wales, Newport, UK
Co-evolving Affective Wearable Computer #2 - Biocybernetic Relationship Object
RACHEL ZUANON - Anhembi Morumbi and PUC-SP University, São Paulo, Brazil

CR9 UNIVERSITÄT FÜR ANGEWANDTE KUNST WIEN,

CONFERENCE
The Planetary Collegium’s IXth International Research Conference:
Consciousness Reframed 9


UNIVERSITÄT FÜR ANGEWANDTE KUNST WIEN, July 3 – 5, 2008

AUDITORIUM 1/AUDITORIUM 2
________________________________________

09:00 - 09:30
A1 - SALVATORE IACONESI / ORIANA (INDEPENDENT ARTIST, ITALY)
A2 - NICOLAJ KIRISITS (University of Applied Arts, Austria)

09:30 - 10:00
A1 - SEMI RYU (VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY, USA)
A2 - KARMEN FRANINOVIC (UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS ZURICH, SWITZERLAND)

10:00 - 10:30
A1 - ROY ASCOTT (UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH, UCLA, THAMES VALLEY UNIVERSITY)
A2 - GONÇALO FURTADO (FACULDADE DE ARQUITECTURA DA UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO, PORTUGAL

11:00 - 11:30
A1 - FRANCO MARINEO (FINE ARTS ACADEMY, ITALY)
A2 - RENÉ STETTLER (NEUE GALERIE LUZERN, SWITZERLAND)

11:30 - 12:00
A1 - IRO LASKARI (NATIONAL & KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, GREECE)
A2 - MIGUEL SANTOS (SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY, UK)

12:00 - 12:30
A1 - ISABELLE CRAWFORD (GOTHENBORG UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN)
A2 - DERICK DE KERCKHOVE (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, CANADA)

14:00 - 14:30
A1 - JUNG HUH (YONSEI UNIVERSITY, SOUTH KOREA)
A2 - MARTIN KUSCH (UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED ARTS, AUSTRIA)

14:30 - 15:00
A1 - ANA RICHARDSON (INDEPENDENT ARTIST, FRANCE)
A2 - MIGUEL GIRÃO (ARTSHARE, IDA, PORTUGAL)

15:00 - 15:30
A1 - MARGARET DOLINSKY (INDIANA UNIVERSITY, USA)
A2 - JENNIFER KANARY (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM, HOLAND)

elza lopes _ work by my first year students _ 2008

maria teresa almeida_work by my first year stundents_2008

manuel lopes_work my first year students_2008

WORKSHOP NO CAC 2008

Foto © José Pedro Sousa, Museum de Bilbao de Frank Ghery, 2008. (Image provided by the author and reproduced with his permission)





PROJECTAR E CONSTRUIR GEOMETRIAS COMPLEXAS
DESIGN AND BUILDING COMPLEX GEOMETRIES

POR: RED RESEARCH + DESIGN STUDIO

“ReD is a research and design Office in architecture and digital technology established as a company in 2007 by architects Marta Male-Alemany and José Pedro Sousa, after 3 years of intensive collaboration. Operating internationally from Barcelona and Porto, ReD merges research and design endeavours both in academic and professional practice. Specialized in the implementation of advanced digital CAD/CAE/CAM technologies in architecture, ReD is committed to explore the new design possibilities that emerge from the cultural and technological context of today’s digital era.”
(in: http://www.re-d.com)

CONTEXTO

“Actualmente, vive-se um momento em que as tecnologias digitais permitem interferir em qualquer momento do processo de projecto em arquitectura. O recurso a tecnologias de CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design / Computer Aided Manufacturing) têm contribuído para uma expansão das possibilidades conceptuais que o arquitecto pode investigar, ao tornar mais eficiente e flexível o seu processo de projecto desde a concepção à construção. O impacto mais visível tem-se manifestado na exploração viável de geometrias complexas e de novos sistemas construtivos. Assistindo a concepção, desenvolvimento e materialização dessas soluções inovadoras, o computador apresenta-se como um verdadeiro parceiro de projecto que permite ao arquitecto ultrapassar as limitações impostas pela estandardização dominante na indústria da construção durante o século passado.”
(in: José Pedro Sousa e Marta Malé_Alemany - Red, “Geometrias complexas: Projecto e Construção”, [policopiado], 2008)






CALENDÁRIO

Propõe-se 3 dias úteis para o desenvolvimento dos trabalhos na FAUP, e 4 dias para preparação da apresentação final.
17 Setembro
Abertura com presença da Comissão organizadora do CAC 2008
09:00 - 13:00 Ensino Assistido
14:30-18:30 Trabalho Livre
18 Setembro
09:00 - 13:00 Ensino Assistido
14:30-18:30 Trabalho Livre
19 Setembro
09:00 - 13:00 Ensino Assistido
14:30 – 18:30 Trabalho Livre
20 a 23 Setembro
09:00 - 13:00 Preparaçao da Apresentação
14:30 – 18:30 Preparaçao da Apresentação
24 Setembro
Sessão pública de apresentação dos Trabalhos
Encerramento com presença da Comissão organizadora do CAC 2008

INTRODUÇÃO

O Workshop em “Designing and Building Complex Geometries” consiste numa introdução à experimentação prática de processos avançados de projecto assistido por computador. Com uma duração de quatro dias, o estúdio ReD, Research+Design conduzirá um conjunto de estudantes no desenvolvimento de um trabalho prático conciso, ilustrativo das oportunidades que se abrem através do uso intensivo de técnicas e estratégias digitais. A natureza formal desta experiência não pretende representar nenhuma tendência arquitectónica mas sim, colocar os alunos perante um desafio conceptual e tecnicamente crítico onde possam perceber claramente o modo como as novas tecnologias permitem expandir e viabilizar o universo de possibilidades de projecto arquitectónico.

DESTINATÁRIOS

Este Workshop destina-se preferencialmente a alunos do curso de licenciatura em Arquitectura da Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto / FAUP, mas está também aberto à participação de outros estudantes e profissionais interessados. Não sendo obrigatório, poderá ser dada preferência a quem tenha conhecimentos básicos de modelação digital tridimensional.

METODOLOGIA

O desenvolvimento do Workshop decorrerá de modo intensivo ao longo de quatro dias com classes orientadas combinadas com sessões de trabalho livre, e um período final para preparação da apresentação pública dos trabalhos realizados.
As classes orientadas destinam-se a fornecer aos estudantes o contexto teórico e conhecimentos práticos necessários para desenvolver um trabalho em grupo e enquadrá-lo criticamente no âmbito da produção arquitectónica contemporânea. Nelas serão apresentadas e discutidas várias referências teóricas e princípios associados às novas tecnologias digitais emergentes, bem como um conjunto de casos de estudo práticos relevantes para o trabalho a realizar no Workshop.
As sessões livres deverão ser aproveitadas pelos estudantes para avançarem com o desenvolvimento do trabalho, lançado e acompanhado na classe orientada precedente.
No final realizar-se-á uma apresentação pública dos trabalhos que contará com a participação de arquitectos convidados para o efeito.

OBJECTIVOS

No final deste Workshop, pretende-se que a ideia do computador enquanto instrumento de produção de desenhos digitais esteja definitivamente ultrapassada por um conceito mais vasto e enriquecedor. Para tal, o trabalho realizado por cada grupo será demonstrativo da utilização transversal do computador ao nível da concepção, do desenvolvimento e da construção do projecto. Juntamente com a experiência prática em grupo, pretende-se contribuir para que cada estudante seja capaz de reflectir individualmente sobre as oportunidades conceptuais e materiais que se abrem com a utilização das novas tecnologias digitais em arquitectura.

PREÇO

O valor de inscrição é de:
- Estudantes 160 Euros
- Profissionais 250 Euros

INSCRIÇÔES:
Susana Araujo(Serviço de Relações Internacionais da FAUP)
sre@arq.up.pt
T - +351 22 6057100

CAC 2008

Faculdade de Arquitectura
Universidade do Porto

CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL CHALENGES:
CONCEPTION, PRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE

- Lectures
- Round tables
- Workshop
- Exhibition
- Publication

Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, 22nd-24th September 2008
Organized by Rui Póvoas and Gonçalo Furtado

CAC08 - WORKSHOP BY ReD

CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGES - CAC 2008
FAUP 22 - 24 September 2008
Organized by Rui Póvoas and Gonçalo

CAC 2008
WORKSHOP BY ReD - DESIGN AND BUILDING COMPLEX GEOMETRIES
17 - 24 Sepetember 2008
“Actualmente, vive-se um momento em que as tecnologias digitais permitem interferir em qualquer momento do processo de projecto em arquitectura. O recurso a tecnologias de CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design / Computer Aided Manufacturing) têm contribuído para uma expansão das possibilidades conceptuais que o arquitecto pode investigar, ao tornar mais eficiente e flexível o seu processo de projecto desde a concepção à construção. O impacto mais visível tem-se manifestado na exploração viável de geometrias complexas e de novos sistemas construtivos. Assistindo a concepção, desenvolvimento e materialização dessas soluções inovadoras, o computador apresenta-se como um verdadeiro parceiro de projecto que permite ao arquitecto ultrapassar as limitações impostas pela estandardização dominante na indústria da construção durante o século passado.” (José Pedro Sousa e Marta Malé-Alemany; cit in: Red, “Geometrias Complexas: Projecto e Construção”, [policopiado], 2008).

“ReD is a research and design Office in architecture and digital technology established as a company in 2007 by architects Marta Male-Alemany and José Pedro Sousa, after 3 years of intensive collaboration. Operating internationally from Barcelona and Porto, ReD merges research and design endeavours both in academic and professional practice. Specialized in the implementation of advanced digital CAD/CAE/CAM technologies in architecture, ReD is committed to explore the new design possibilities that emerge from the cultural and technological context of today’s digital era.” (in: http://www.re-d.com)

Homenagem a FERNANDO LISBOA

Homenagem a Fernando Lisboa
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto
1 de Julho 2008, 18.00h
Entrada Livre


Rui Braz Afonso
Francisco Barata
Vasco Branco
Gonçalo Furtado
Marco Ginoulhiac
Isabel Lisboa
Fernanda Lisboa
António Meireles
Jean Paul Moura
Rui Povoas
José Pedro Sousa
Andreia Soutinho
Domingos Tavares
João Pedro Xavier

Lecture at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

2008 EVENING LECTURES
@ Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Montalegre, 5 - Barcelona

May 23 - MARTÍ PERAN
Post-it Cities
June 4 - SANTIAGO CIRUGEDA
Urban Situations. Executive Units
June 10 - GONÇALO FURTADO
Architecture and Systems Research since WWII (Cedric Price, Gordon Pask et alts: Japan Net, Generator and other Responsive and Evolving Environments)
June 12 - REINHOLD MARTIN
Multi-National City
June 16 - ANTONI MUNTADAS
Spaces of Translation
June 25 - OLE BOUMAN
The Urgency of Architecture = the Architecture of Urgency

REVIEW BY PEDRO MARTINS

"Gordon Pask: From a Childhood Curiosity to the Envisioning of an Evolving Environment" (Forthcoming)
by Gonçalo Furtado

REVIEW BY PEDRO MARTINS (Expert on AI and former friend of professor Gordon Pask)

The Book

This is an outstanding book about the most fascinating personality I have met in my life and with whom I have been in a close and friend contact for more than twenty years: Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask. Based on private documents provided by one of his daughters (many of which, due to their private and intimate character, are not in Gordon’s Archives in Vienna) Prof. Gonçalo Furtado has written a magic (albeit true) biography of Gordon Pask, portraying either the man behind the scientist or the links he set up between Architecture and Cybernetics (essentially focused on his relationships with Cedric Price and John Frazer). It was followed by extensive interviews with some of those that been directly in touch with Pask.
Furtado’s book is divided into three main parts. The first deals with Pask’s life (private and professional) as well as with the role he played in the emergence of second-order cybernetics. The second part includes an account of an architectural project made by Cedric Price but in which the role that Pask played was crucial: “Japan Net”, a seminal although almost unknown expression of second-order cybernetics. Finally, the third part lays emphasis upon the rise of the so-called “information environment”, Pask’s later achievements, and his reencounters with Price and Frazer. So, the book is a ‘must’ either for those who have known him or a paradigmatic reference for all who - like him - have their ideas far ahead of their epochs.

The Author
Gonçalo Furtado is Professor in the Faculty of Architecture in the Oporto University (FAOU). Together with his graduation in this University, he also got a Master in Architecture (Universidad Politecnica da Catalunha, Spain) and a PhD in Theory and History of Architecture (University College of London, He gave lectures in Portugal, United Kingdom, United States of America, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Austria and Mexico. He is also the author of several books such as “Notes on the space of digital technique” (Oporto: Mimesis, 2002), “Marcos Cruz: Unpredictable bodies (Oporto: Mimesis, 2004), “Off fourm: Postglobal city and marginal design discourses” (Bogota-Oporto: PEI, 2004), “Interferencias: Conformação, implementação e futuro da cultura digital” (Oporto, 2005), “The construction of the critical project” (Bogota-OPorto: PEI, 2005), “Architecture: machine and body” (edited with Rui Braz; Oporto: FaupEditorial, 2006), “Generator and Beyond” (Semear Palavras, Jan. 2008).
As an expert in the exchanges amongst architecture, cybernetics, systems research, AI and computation, he has already began to pay the price of being a man ‘ahead of his time’, with all the advantages and disadvantages that this feature brings about.

Pedro Medina Martins received a BSEE and MSEE in IST (1966,1967), and he got a PhD in University of Brunel (1986). He taught at IST (Cybernetics and Fuzzy/Neural Control); he was an invited Professor of the FLL and of the Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada where he lectured on ‘Modelling Mental and Brain Control Systems’, etc.
He is a member of the Portuguese Society for Cybernetics, American Society For Cybernetics, Neuro-Psychoanalytic Society etc He got several International Awards (Viena, Liege, USA) as well as registered Patents. All deal with the same research area: the emulation of human ‘mechanisms’ in non-trivial machines (robots); and, since 2000, Non-Natural Consciousness.


Pedro Medina Martins cursou Engenharia Electrónica e o seu equivalente a mestrado
No IST (1966, 1967); e possui Doturamento por Brunel (1986). Ensinou no IST (Cibernética e Fuzzy/Neural control); foi professor convidado da FLL e do Instituo Superior de Psicologia aplicada onde palestrou sobre “Modelação dos Sistemas de Controlo existentes na Psique e no Cérebro Humanos” etc.
È membro da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cibernética, da American Society For Cybernetics, Neuro-Psychoanalytic Society etc. Obteve diversos Prémios internacionais (Vienna, Liege, USA) tal como registos de patentes. Tudo veio relacionado com a mesma área de investigação: o emulamento de ‘mecanismos’ humanos em máquinas não-triviais (robots); e, desde 2000, Consciência não-natural.