Tatiana Nunes, Augusto Costa, Daniel Garvoa, Sara Pinto, Pedro Pinto, (Orientadores: Gonçalo Furtado e Miguel);
“Caracterização Espaço Funcional de Pólo da UP e Áreas Adjacentes [Parte I – FAUP]” [Projecto Lidera Nº65];
Apresentação no Stand da FAUP
7ª Mostra da Universidade do Porto: Ciência, Ensino e Inovação,
Pavilhão Rosa Mota-Porto, 29 Março 2009.
António Carvalho, Lia Moreira, Luís Caló, Manuel Caló, Manuel Lopes, Pedro Flores (Orientadores: Gonçalo Furtado e José Pedro Sousa);
"Unidade de Prototi+agem Rápida" [Projecto Lidera Nº68]
Apresentação no Stand da FAUP;
7ª Mostra da Universidade do Porto: Ciência, Ensino e Inovação, Pavilhão Rosa Mota-Porto, 29 Março 2009.
3/24/09
3/20/09
NUTOPIA
“SYMPOSIUM EXPLORES THE MODERN ‘METROPOLITAN IMAGINATION’
Artist invites everyone from architects to activists to explore the cities of today and the future
Nutopia: Exploring the Metropolitan Imagination
April 2nd and 3rd, Cardiff
(…)
Speakers/ artists:
- Steve Garrett (Riverside Market, Cardiff), Chris Carlsson (San Francisco-based author of ‘Nowtopia’),
- Igloo (socially responsible property investment),
- Peter Draper, Rounded Development (home of sustainable building in Wales),
- Prof Malcolm Miles (Professor of Cultural Theory, University of Plymouth),
- Dr Jill Fenton (Queen Mary University of London Geography Department),
- Dr Tom Hall (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University), Bas Spierings (Lecturer in Urban Geography, Utrecht University),
- Wiard Sterk (Director of Safle, independent public art consultancy)
- Zoe Skoulding (Bangor University),
- Nell Quest (Rutgers University),
- Karem Said (The American University in Cairo),
- Aparna Sharma (independent film maker),
- Pratap Rughani (University of the Arts, London),
- Rachel Armstrong (Bartlett School, UCL),
- Dr Gonçalo Furtado (Oporto University),
- Mac Dunlop (artist and writer),
- Anne Marie Culhane (artist),
- Dr Emma Posey (Founding Director, bloc),
- Sophie Hope (artist), RoToR (Barcelona),
- Esther Pilkington and Daniel Ladnar (Aberystwyth University),
- Mark Chapple (Save the Children),
- Simon Whitehead and Ben Stammers (movement artists),
- Artstation (Cardiff),
- Rob Bermingham (artist) and Cycle Training Wales,
- Poppy Nicol (Cardiff University)
Artist invites everyone from architects to activists to explore the cities of today and the future
Nutopia: Exploring the Metropolitan Imagination
April 2nd and 3rd, Cardiff
(…)
Speakers/ artists:
- Steve Garrett (Riverside Market, Cardiff), Chris Carlsson (San Francisco-based author of ‘Nowtopia’),
- Igloo (socially responsible property investment),
- Peter Draper, Rounded Development (home of sustainable building in Wales),
- Prof Malcolm Miles (Professor of Cultural Theory, University of Plymouth),
- Dr Jill Fenton (Queen Mary University of London Geography Department),
- Dr Tom Hall (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University), Bas Spierings (Lecturer in Urban Geography, Utrecht University),
- Wiard Sterk (Director of Safle, independent public art consultancy)
- Zoe Skoulding (Bangor University),
- Nell Quest (Rutgers University),
- Karem Said (The American University in Cairo),
- Aparna Sharma (independent film maker),
- Pratap Rughani (University of the Arts, London),
- Rachel Armstrong (Bartlett School, UCL),
- Dr Gonçalo Furtado (Oporto University),
- Mac Dunlop (artist and writer),
- Anne Marie Culhane (artist),
- Dr Emma Posey (Founding Director, bloc),
- Sophie Hope (artist), RoToR (Barcelona),
- Esther Pilkington and Daniel Ladnar (Aberystwyth University),
- Mark Chapple (Save the Children),
- Simon Whitehead and Ben Stammers (movement artists),
- Artstation (Cardiff),
- Rob Bermingham (artist) and Cycle Training Wales,
- Poppy Nicol (Cardiff University)
3/16/09
DIGITAL DESIGN WORKSHOP - OUT OF THE BOX
DIGITAL DESIGN WORKSHOP
"OUT OF THE BOX: THINKING, DESIGNING, BUILDING"
FAUP, 6-10 Abril 2009
By José Pedro SOusa
Organized by G.Furtado e R.Póvoas
"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, tornando mais eficiente e flexível o seu processo de projecto desde a concepção à construção. O impacto mais visível do uso destas novas tecnologias
manifesta-se na viabilização prática da exploração 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. Do Estádio Olímpico de Beijing de Herzog & de Meuron ao Guggenheim
Museum de Frank Gehry, das Serpentine Gallery de Toyo Ito ou Álvaro Siza à cobertura
do British Museum de Norman Foster, o uso destas tecnologias digitais tem suportado
a produção de grande parte dos edifícios mais relevantes da contemporaneidade.
Neste contexto, o Workshop “OUT OF THE BOX” dedica-se ao ensino e
experimentação prática de processos avançados de projecto assistido por
computador. Com uma duração de 5 dias, um conjunto de estudantes desenvolverá um
trabalho prático conciso, ilustrativo das oportunidades que se abrem através do uso
extensivo de técnicas e estratégias digitais. De carácter introdutório, este Workshop
decorre em volta do desafio de pensar, projectar e construir geometrias curvas em
arquitectura. O desafio formal desta experiência não pretende representar nenhuma
tendência arquitectónica mas sim, colocar os alunos perante um problema 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. No final deste Workshop, pretende-se que a ideia do computador
enquanto instrumento de produção de desenhos técnicos e/ou de apresentação esteja
definitivamente ultrapassada por um conceito mais vasto e enriquecedor."
(in: José Pedro Sousa, "Out of the Box" (policopiado), Porto, s.d.)
"OUT OF THE BOX: THINKING, DESIGNING, BUILDING"
FAUP, 6-10 Abril 2009
By José Pedro SOusa
Organized by G.Furtado e R.Póvoas
"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, tornando mais eficiente e flexível o seu processo de projecto desde a concepção à construção. O impacto mais visível do uso destas novas tecnologias
manifesta-se na viabilização prática da exploração 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. Do Estádio Olímpico de Beijing de Herzog & de Meuron ao Guggenheim
Museum de Frank Gehry, das Serpentine Gallery de Toyo Ito ou Álvaro Siza à cobertura
do British Museum de Norman Foster, o uso destas tecnologias digitais tem suportado
a produção de grande parte dos edifícios mais relevantes da contemporaneidade.
Neste contexto, o Workshop “OUT OF THE BOX” dedica-se ao ensino e
experimentação prática de processos avançados de projecto assistido por
computador. Com uma duração de 5 dias, um conjunto de estudantes desenvolverá um
trabalho prático conciso, ilustrativo das oportunidades que se abrem através do uso
extensivo de técnicas e estratégias digitais. De carácter introdutório, este Workshop
decorre em volta do desafio de pensar, projectar e construir geometrias curvas em
arquitectura. O desafio formal desta experiência não pretende representar nenhuma
tendência arquitectónica mas sim, colocar os alunos perante um problema 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. No final deste Workshop, pretende-se que a ideia do computador
enquanto instrumento de produção de desenhos técnicos e/ou de apresentação esteja
definitivamente ultrapassada por um conceito mais vasto e enriquecedor."
(in: José Pedro Sousa, "Out of the Box" (policopiado), Porto, s.d.)
SPACE SINTAX
Tatiana Trindade (Líder), Augusto Costa, Daniel Garvoa, Sara Pinto, Pedro Pinto, [Orientação de Gonçalo Furtado e Co-Orientação de Miguel Serra], "1º Relatório de Progresso Projecto LIDERA: Caracterização espaço-funcional de Pólo da UP e áreas adjacentes [Part 1-FAUP]",Universidade do Porto, Março 2009.
UNIDADE DE PROTOTIPAGEM RAPIDA
Luis Caló [Líder], António Carvalho, Lia Moreira, Pedro Flores [Orientação de Gonçalo Furtado e Co-Orientação de José Pedro Sousa], "1ª Relatório de Progresso Projecto LIDERA: Unidade de Prototipagem Rápida",Universidade do Porto, Março 2009.
3/9/09
DESIGN, MANUFACTURE AND EXPERIENCE
DESIGN, MANUFACTURE AND EXPERIENCE: ABOUT ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPTION
Gonçalo M Furtado C Lopes, PhD
"The interference of the digital and the appropriation of the new technologies as a mean and as a support are being felt at the level of the environment of the project (that is, at the very level of design and architectural conception), which is showing the strain of the pressure of information technology and informationalization that it has been undergoing for two decades now, to the extent that new instruments, methodologies and organizational practices are appearing in the carrying out of the design and architectural project. In this paper, based in my 2000’s “Interferências, do Digital no Campo da Arcquitectura” and subsequent books, I will review several transformations and challenges related with Design, Manufacture and Experience.
First, one points to an efficient environment of computerized machines that plan to evolve into a ‘self-generative and self-referential’ system - a new digital environment which aims is to enable design and architectural activity. In that process the development of the CAAD sector should be pinpointed, understood as an instrumental development but, most of all a methodological one, which holds the promise of na environment provided with intelligence and intervention, able to provide imaginative models, generative procedures (incorporating dynamism in the representation) and systems of thought based on casuistry.
Second, one recalls that with three-dimensional modulation supported by interfaces of instant visualization and experimentation, as well as management and manufacturing software (the ‘Parametric CAD’ and the ‘CAD CAM’), the frontiers between numeric programming and spatial experience, and between conception and production, collapse.
Finally one acknowledges that, complex theoretical approaches understand ‘modeling’ in an environment characterized by mediation (which we have been calling a digital network) as a potential construction-constitution of shared living environments, contiguous with physical constructions, which could mean the appearance of new territorial domains of architectural practice."
Gonçalo M Furtado C Lopes, PhD
"The interference of the digital and the appropriation of the new technologies as a mean and as a support are being felt at the level of the environment of the project (that is, at the very level of design and architectural conception), which is showing the strain of the pressure of information technology and informationalization that it has been undergoing for two decades now, to the extent that new instruments, methodologies and organizational practices are appearing in the carrying out of the design and architectural project. In this paper, based in my 2000’s “Interferências, do Digital no Campo da Arcquitectura” and subsequent books, I will review several transformations and challenges related with Design, Manufacture and Experience.
First, one points to an efficient environment of computerized machines that plan to evolve into a ‘self-generative and self-referential’ system - a new digital environment which aims is to enable design and architectural activity. In that process the development of the CAAD sector should be pinpointed, understood as an instrumental development but, most of all a methodological one, which holds the promise of na environment provided with intelligence and intervention, able to provide imaginative models, generative procedures (incorporating dynamism in the representation) and systems of thought based on casuistry.
Second, one recalls that with three-dimensional modulation supported by interfaces of instant visualization and experimentation, as well as management and manufacturing software (the ‘Parametric CAD’ and the ‘CAD CAM’), the frontiers between numeric programming and spatial experience, and between conception and production, collapse.
Finally one acknowledges that, complex theoretical approaches understand ‘modeling’ in an environment characterized by mediation (which we have been calling a digital network) as a potential construction-constitution of shared living environments, contiguous with physical constructions, which could mean the appearance of new territorial domains of architectural practice."
2009 ASC
"Seminal Experiments on Cybernetic Art, Design and Architecture: Gordon Pask (1928-1996)"
Gonçalo M Furtado c Lopes
"[POSTER CONTENT:]
Column 1. Envisioning an Evolving Environment [...]
Column 2. Experiments on Cybernetic Art and Design [...]
Column 3. Exchanges between Cybernetics and Architecture"
in:
2009 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CYBERNETICS: "Cybernetics Talk Dance Anticommunication",
Olympia Community Centre, The Evergreen State College, and the Washington Performing Arts Centre.
Olympia - Washington, United States of America
12-15 March 2009.
3/8/09
SOC and POSTRUCTURALISM
Systems research and alike continue to be of relevance today. Second-order-cybernetics in particualr acknowledges 'subjectivity' in our humane trying to 'objectively' understand the world (post-structuralist pals' call it 'difference') and our role within it
GF
GF
Ergonomia e Interface
MESTRADO EM DESIGN INDUSTRIAL (FEUP/ESAD, 2008-2009)
DISCIPLINA “ERGONOMIA E INTERFACE”Dirk Loyens, Gonçalo Furtado e Teresa Sarmento
“ O objectivo da disciplina de Ergonomia e Interface é orientar os alunos na interpretação e utilização das ferramentas conceptuais e metodológicas das disciplinas da Usabilidade e da ‘Interaction Design’, e em particular na sua aplicação ao campo do Design Industrial. Também será exercido atenção sobre o estudo da teoria do design através da identificação, compreensão e interpretação de temáticas e conceitos de interfaces.
CONTEÚDO: 1.- Usabilidade – Princípios de design para usabilidade, design para usabilidade, métodos para avaliação da usabilidade.; 2.- Interaction Design – O quê é interaction design, o processo de design interactivo, exericio e case study.; 3.- Interfaces – A sociedade pos-industrial, desafios do design para a era pos-industrial, interfaces e tecnologias digitais, interfaces e bio-tecnologias.”
(In: Dirk Lloyes, Gonçalo Furtado e Teresa Sarmento, “FICHA DA DISCIPLINA” [Ergonomia e Interface), FEUP, s.d.
DISCIPLINA “ERGONOMIA E INTERFACE”Dirk Loyens, Gonçalo Furtado e Teresa Sarmento
“ O objectivo da disciplina de Ergonomia e Interface é orientar os alunos na interpretação e utilização das ferramentas conceptuais e metodológicas das disciplinas da Usabilidade e da ‘Interaction Design’, e em particular na sua aplicação ao campo do Design Industrial. Também será exercido atenção sobre o estudo da teoria do design através da identificação, compreensão e interpretação de temáticas e conceitos de interfaces.
CONTEÚDO: 1.- Usabilidade – Princípios de design para usabilidade, design para usabilidade, métodos para avaliação da usabilidade.; 2.- Interaction Design – O quê é interaction design, o processo de design interactivo, exericio e case study.; 3.- Interfaces – A sociedade pos-industrial, desafios do design para a era pos-industrial, interfaces e tecnologias digitais, interfaces e bio-tecnologias.”
(In: Dirk Lloyes, Gonçalo Furtado e Teresa Sarmento, “FICHA DA DISCIPLINA” [Ergonomia e Interface), FEUP, s.d.
AA
Gonçalo M Furtado C L, “The Encounters Around Architecture and Systems Research: [An Introductory Excerpt]”, in: AA Issue 8 (Newsletter), Architectural Association, London, 2009. [Forthcoming]
This text is an excerpt of Furtado’s original text: Gonçalo M. Furtado C. L., “Envisioning an Evolving Environment: The Encounters of Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer” [PhD Dissertation], London: University College of London, 2007, pp.6-8.
The thesis was based mainly on Furtado’s 2005 primary research of Gordon Pask’s personal archive (held by Ms. Amanda Heitler at the time) and Cedric Price Archives (held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture). Research was made possible by a scholarship from FCT (Co-financiamento do programa Operatcional da Ciência e Inovação 2010 e do Fundo Social Europeu). The thesis’s abstract reads: “This thesis provides a history of exchanges between architecture and the fields of cybernetics, systems research and computation throughout the last five decades. In particular, it focuses on the encounters between three pre-eminent British professionals - Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer - and provides a complete account of two outstanding architectural projects related to systems and computation - Generator and Japan Net. It also highlights the architectural relevance of these encounters and the importance of their contemporary legacy - the genesis of the systemic and computational paradigm in architectural design and the promotion of an evolving environment.”
In addition, see my papers and books on these topics [above], as well as the following documents:
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “Towards a Responsive Architecture: Cedric Price’s Architecture and Systems Research” (Scientific report), FAUP, March 2006; and Gonçalo, “Envisioning an Evolving Environment […]” (Scientific Report), FAUP, February 2007.
Acknowledgements: I am grateful to Terence Riley (for the Interview published in 2003); to OA (for their invitation to give a talk at Serralves about the Metabolists and MoMA’s “the Changing of the Avantguard” in 2003); to C.Larsen (for his help during my research at MoMA in 2003(?)), to H.Schubert (for his help during my research at the CCA in 2005), to A.Heitler (for her help during my research at Pask’s archives in 2005); to V.Silva (for his brief commentaries on my text on C.Price and Cybernetics submitted to PSIAX in 2004); and to Jonathan Hill (for his commentaries during my 2005 presentation at the Bartlett titled “Enabling Architecture and Technological Responsivity in Cedric Price”). I am also grateful to Neil Spiller, the Frazers and Roy Ascott.
Further readings:
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “Algumas notas sobre uma ‘segunda ordem’ de relacionamento entre arte e tecnologia e seu reflexo na arquitectura”, Ar: Cadernos da FAUTL, Lisbon, 2006, pp.50-57.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “Generator and Beyond”, Coimbra: Semear Palavras, January 2008.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “The JN Experience ("Cedric Price, Gordon Pask and John Frazer: Generator, Japan Net and Other Responsive and Evolving Environments”: Part A)”, in: Luis Borges Gouveia (ed.), “Internacional Colloquium “Digital cities summit: From virtual world to human world”, (Acts Proceedings; ICSP, 2007), (Forthcoming)
FURTADO, Gonçalo, "Cedric Price and Gordon Pask: The Japan Net Experiment (1986)", in: Robert Trapll (ed.), Vienna: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, EMCSR 2008, pp.138-143.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, "Cedric Price's Generator and the Frazers' System Research 1", in: Technoetic Arts (edited by Roy Ascott), Vol. 6, N.1, (submitted March 2007) 2008.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “A Viragem dos anos 60-70 e o reconhecimento de novas attitudes” (“The shift of the 60s and 70s and the Acknowledgment of New Attitudes: Notes about Systems Thinking in the Language of Architecture”), in: Arq./a, Nº61-"Intervenções informais", September 2008, p.24-27.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, "Towards an Evolutionary Archiectural Aesthetics (Part A: Today’s techno-scientific interests and the earlier enabling of the emergent”, in: Furtado e Póvoas (eds.), “Contemporary Architectural Challenges”, Oporto: FAUP, 2008, p.15-18.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “Some readings on Cedric Price’s work and the Generator”, in: Furtado e Póvoas (eds.), “Cedric Price’s Generator and the Frazers´Collection”, in: “Cedric Price’s Generator […]”, Oporto: FAUP, 2008, p.79-95.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “Envisioning an Evolving Environment-Encounters of Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer: A Brief Account”, in: W.Fiel, M.Jahrmann (eds.), “New Realities. Being Syncretic. BOOK OF ABSTRACTS”, Wien: University of Applied Arts, 2008, p.34.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “Envisioning an Evolving Environment-Encounters of Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer: A Brief Account”, in: Roy Ascott, Wolfgang Fiel, Gerald Bast, Margarete Jahrmann (eds.), “New Realities. Being Syncretic, NewYork-Wien”: SpringerWienNewYork, 2009, pp.118-122.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “Gordon Pask: Exchanges Between Cybernetics and Architecture and the Envisioning of the ‘Informational Environment’”, in: J.Józefczyk, W.Thomas, M.Turowska (eds.), XIVth International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems of WOSC: Prodeedings, Poland: Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wroclawskiej / World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics, 2008, p.910-921.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “Gordon Pask (1928-1996): Seminal Experiments on Cybernetic Art and Design (From a Childhood Curiosity and Mobiles to the I.E.’s Symbiosis”), in: Álvaro Barbosa (ed.), "Artech 2008: IVth International Conference on Digital Arts", Porto: 2008.
This text is an excerpt of Furtado’s original text: Gonçalo M. Furtado C. L., “Envisioning an Evolving Environment: The Encounters of Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer” [PhD Dissertation], London: University College of London, 2007, pp.6-8.
The thesis was based mainly on Furtado’s 2005 primary research of Gordon Pask’s personal archive (held by Ms. Amanda Heitler at the time) and Cedric Price Archives (held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture). Research was made possible by a scholarship from FCT (Co-financiamento do programa Operatcional da Ciência e Inovação 2010 e do Fundo Social Europeu). The thesis’s abstract reads: “This thesis provides a history of exchanges between architecture and the fields of cybernetics, systems research and computation throughout the last five decades. In particular, it focuses on the encounters between three pre-eminent British professionals - Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer - and provides a complete account of two outstanding architectural projects related to systems and computation - Generator and Japan Net. It also highlights the architectural relevance of these encounters and the importance of their contemporary legacy - the genesis of the systemic and computational paradigm in architectural design and the promotion of an evolving environment.”
In addition, see my papers and books on these topics [above], as well as the following documents:
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “Towards a Responsive Architecture: Cedric Price’s Architecture and Systems Research” (Scientific report), FAUP, March 2006; and Gonçalo, “Envisioning an Evolving Environment […]” (Scientific Report), FAUP, February 2007.
Acknowledgements: I am grateful to Terence Riley (for the Interview published in 2003); to OA (for their invitation to give a talk at Serralves about the Metabolists and MoMA’s “the Changing of the Avantguard” in 2003); to C.Larsen (for his help during my research at MoMA in 2003(?)), to H.Schubert (for his help during my research at the CCA in 2005), to A.Heitler (for her help during my research at Pask’s archives in 2005); to V.Silva (for his brief commentaries on my text on C.Price and Cybernetics submitted to PSIAX in 2004); and to Jonathan Hill (for his commentaries during my 2005 presentation at the Bartlett titled “Enabling Architecture and Technological Responsivity in Cedric Price”). I am also grateful to Neil Spiller, the Frazers and Roy Ascott.
Further readings:
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “Algumas notas sobre uma ‘segunda ordem’ de relacionamento entre arte e tecnologia e seu reflexo na arquitectura”, Ar: Cadernos da FAUTL, Lisbon, 2006, pp.50-57.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “Generator and Beyond”, Coimbra: Semear Palavras, January 2008.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “The JN Experience ("Cedric Price, Gordon Pask and John Frazer: Generator, Japan Net and Other Responsive and Evolving Environments”: Part A)”, in: Luis Borges Gouveia (ed.), “Internacional Colloquium “Digital cities summit: From virtual world to human world”, (Acts Proceedings; ICSP, 2007), (Forthcoming)
FURTADO, Gonçalo, "Cedric Price and Gordon Pask: The Japan Net Experiment (1986)", in: Robert Trapll (ed.), Vienna: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, EMCSR 2008, pp.138-143.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, "Cedric Price's Generator and the Frazers' System Research 1", in: Technoetic Arts (edited by Roy Ascott), Vol. 6, N.1, (submitted March 2007) 2008.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “A Viragem dos anos 60-70 e o reconhecimento de novas attitudes” (“The shift of the 60s and 70s and the Acknowledgment of New Attitudes: Notes about Systems Thinking in the Language of Architecture”), in: Arq./a, Nº61-"Intervenções informais", September 2008, p.24-27.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, "Towards an Evolutionary Archiectural Aesthetics (Part A: Today’s techno-scientific interests and the earlier enabling of the emergent”, in: Furtado e Póvoas (eds.), “Contemporary Architectural Challenges”, Oporto: FAUP, 2008, p.15-18.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “Some readings on Cedric Price’s work and the Generator”, in: Furtado e Póvoas (eds.), “Cedric Price’s Generator and the Frazers´Collection”, in: “Cedric Price’s Generator […]”, Oporto: FAUP, 2008, p.79-95.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “Envisioning an Evolving Environment-Encounters of Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer: A Brief Account”, in: W.Fiel, M.Jahrmann (eds.), “New Realities. Being Syncretic. BOOK OF ABSTRACTS”, Wien: University of Applied Arts, 2008, p.34.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “Envisioning an Evolving Environment-Encounters of Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer: A Brief Account”, in: Roy Ascott, Wolfgang Fiel, Gerald Bast, Margarete Jahrmann (eds.), “New Realities. Being Syncretic, NewYork-Wien”: SpringerWienNewYork, 2009, pp.118-122.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “Gordon Pask: Exchanges Between Cybernetics and Architecture and the Envisioning of the ‘Informational Environment’”, in: J.Józefczyk, W.Thomas, M.Turowska (eds.), XIVth International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems of WOSC: Prodeedings, Poland: Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wroclawskiej / World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics, 2008, p.910-921.
FURTADO, Gonçalo, “Gordon Pask (1928-1996): Seminal Experiments on Cybernetic Art and Design (From a Childhood Curiosity and Mobiles to the I.E.’s Symbiosis”), in: Álvaro Barbosa (ed.), "Artech 2008: IVth International Conference on Digital Arts", Porto: 2008.
IGNÁSI SOLÁ-MORALES
TO INTERPRET THE CONTEMPORANEOUS METROPOLIS: NOTES ON IGNÁSI SOLÁ-MORALES
Gonçalo Furtado
"
* The legacy of Ignási Sola-Morales
The theory of architecture and urbanism faces the difficult task of struggling to make acknowledgeable the complexity of the modern city. In this sense, the legacy of the recently diseased history researcher and architecture theorist Ignási Sola-Morales arises as a sharp, generous and open perspective.
I clearly remember how the news that his heart yield in due to a stressful life strongly shook the architectural milieu.
Not expecting such a rigueur as that out coming from relatives and close relations, I dared, for three nights, having for company the motorway buzz, to organize a set of notes that the contact I had had with Solá-Morales writings personality granted me to take.
Besides an apparent sense of enigma, his work has the genuine capacity of describing the cartography and sharing the city in its contemporary complexity.
[...]
As this same article advances, we intend to show how the work of Ignási Sola Morales presents, in a generous, sharp and open way besides all the apparent enigma, the genuine capacity of cartographing and sharing the city in all its contemporaneous complexity."
Gonçalo Furtado
"
* The legacy of Ignási Sola-Morales
The theory of architecture and urbanism faces the difficult task of struggling to make acknowledgeable the complexity of the modern city. In this sense, the legacy of the recently diseased history researcher and architecture theorist Ignási Sola-Morales arises as a sharp, generous and open perspective.
I clearly remember how the news that his heart yield in due to a stressful life strongly shook the architectural milieu.
Not expecting such a rigueur as that out coming from relatives and close relations, I dared, for three nights, having for company the motorway buzz, to organize a set of notes that the contact I had had with Solá-Morales writings personality granted me to take.
Besides an apparent sense of enigma, his work has the genuine capacity of describing the cartography and sharing the city in its contemporary complexity.
[...]
As this same article advances, we intend to show how the work of Ignási Sola Morales presents, in a generous, sharp and open way besides all the apparent enigma, the genuine capacity of cartographing and sharing the city in all its contemporaneous complexity."
3/5/09
Acronyms
List of the acronyms, in alphabetical order, that I have used in my texts
AA - Architectural Association
AI - Artificial Intelligence
A of K - Gordon Pask's expression: Architecture of Knowledge
C1- First Order Cybernetics
C2 - Sencond Order Cybernetics
CT - Gordon Pask's Conversation Theory
CP - Cedric Price
GP (or G) - Gordon Pask
IA - Gordon Pask's Interaction Theory
ICT - Information and Communication Thecnologies
IE for Information Environment
IS - Information Society
JN - Cedric Price's Japan Net
LP - Gordon Pask's expression: Language Protocolg
AA - Architectural Association
AI - Artificial Intelligence
A of K - Gordon Pask's expression: Architecture of Knowledge
C1- First Order Cybernetics
C2 - Sencond Order Cybernetics
CT - Gordon Pask's Conversation Theory
CP - Cedric Price
GP (or G) - Gordon Pask
IA - Gordon Pask's Interaction Theory
ICT - Information and Communication Thecnologies
IE for Information Environment
IS - Information Society
JN - Cedric Price's Japan Net
LP - Gordon Pask's expression: Language Protocolg
3/4/09
LECTURE AT TESLA
GONÇALO FURTADO's LECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LONDON
ORGANIZED BY "TESLA-ART AND SCIENCE RESEARCH INTEREST GROUP"
Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing. University College of London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6 BT.
Wednesday, 11th of March, 5.00 to 6.00 pm
"Some Links between Infinite Scales and Primary Archival Research on Pask and Price.
Abstract: Art, Design and Architecture have all been affected and influenced by computer science and related fields, and this fact can act as the inspiration for a mutant generative environment. In this lecture, I will argue that the contemporary condition suggests the need for a dialogue between the infinitely large and small. The minute scale of the body-technology-space interface has become a critical question, and, on a larger scale, the dynamics of self-organizing systems has come to dominate our understanding of the meta-environment of the future. I will also provide a brief history of exchanges between architecture and the fields of computation and cybernetics, based on my books and primary archival research on the British mavericks Gordon Pask and Cedric Price".
BIO
Gonçalo Furtado is Professor Aux. of Architecture. He has written several books, including "Notes on the Space of Digital Technique" (2002), "Marcos Cruz: Unpredictable Flesh" (2004), "The Construction of the Critical Project" (2005), and the compilation "Architecture: Machine and Body" (with R.Braz, 2006). He has given lectures in the UK, USA, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Austria, Mexico, Poland and Germany. His PhD Dissertation provided a history of exchanges between architecture and the fields of cybernetics, systems research and computation. In particular, it focuses on the encounters of British professionals such as Gordon Pask and Cedric Price, and provides a complete account of the outstanding Generator and Japan Net projects. Furtado's paper "Gordon Pask: Exchanges between Cybernetics and Architecture and the Envisioning of the 'Informational Environment'", won "The Kybernetes Research Awards-Highly Commended Paper" at the last World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics’ International Colloquium.
ORGANIZED BY "TESLA-ART AND SCIENCE RESEARCH INTEREST GROUP"
Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing. University College of London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6 BT.
Wednesday, 11th of March, 5.00 to 6.00 pm
"Some Links between Infinite Scales and Primary Archival Research on Pask and Price.
Abstract: Art, Design and Architecture have all been affected and influenced by computer science and related fields, and this fact can act as the inspiration for a mutant generative environment. In this lecture, I will argue that the contemporary condition suggests the need for a dialogue between the infinitely large and small. The minute scale of the body-technology-space interface has become a critical question, and, on a larger scale, the dynamics of self-organizing systems has come to dominate our understanding of the meta-environment of the future. I will also provide a brief history of exchanges between architecture and the fields of computation and cybernetics, based on my books and primary archival research on the British mavericks Gordon Pask and Cedric Price".
BIO
Gonçalo Furtado is Professor Aux. of Architecture. He has written several books, including "Notes on the Space of Digital Technique" (2002), "Marcos Cruz: Unpredictable Flesh" (2004), "The Construction of the Critical Project" (2005), and the compilation "Architecture: Machine and Body" (with R.Braz, 2006). He has given lectures in the UK, USA, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Austria, Mexico, Poland and Germany. His PhD Dissertation provided a history of exchanges between architecture and the fields of cybernetics, systems research and computation. In particular, it focuses on the encounters of British professionals such as Gordon Pask and Cedric Price, and provides a complete account of the outstanding Generator and Japan Net projects. Furtado's paper "Gordon Pask: Exchanges between Cybernetics and Architecture and the Envisioning of the 'Informational Environment'", won "The Kybernetes Research Awards-Highly Commended Paper" at the last World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics’ International Colloquium.
LAUNCH AT THE BARTLETT
GONÇALO FURTADO'S BOOKS LAUNCH AT THE BARTLETT
The Bartlett, Wates House, 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB.
Wednesday 11th of March, 7.30 to 8.30 pm
FURTADO, Gonçalo. "Generator and Beyond: Encounters of Cedric Price and John Frazer", Coimbra: Semear Palavras, Jan. 2008.
"Furtado´s thorough and committed investigative practice is an inspiration and a benchmark of excellence" (Roy Ascott, The Planetary Collegium)
"I must ... confess a vested interest in the subject of this book and its author ... As the years progressed my respect for Gonçalo increased as I observed his tenacity as a architectural researcher..." (Neil Spiller, Bartlett)
"... an important addition to recent scholarship on Price". (Suzanne Strum, Metropolis)
" ... impressed by the depth of his research, insight and commitment ... I fully support this book written by someone with Gonçalo´s knowledge of, and passion for, the project". (Nic Bailey, Former principle collaborator)
" ... timely and promises to unlock some of the mysteries of this work" (Howard Schubert, CCA)
"... a critical text as architecture awakes in the 21th century". (Ted Krueger, RPI)
FURTADO, Gonçalo, and PÓVOAS, Rui (eds.). "Cedric Price's Generator [...]", Porto: FAUP, Sept. 2008.
"This timely book highlights the Generator, and all Price's projects the Generator may indeed come to be regarded as his most significant proposition." (John and Julia Frazer).
* A bar will be run by the students. All invited!
** During the afternoon, Professor Furtado will give a lecture at UCL.
The Bartlett, Wates House, 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB.
Wednesday 11th of March, 7.30 to 8.30 pm
FURTADO, Gonçalo. "Generator and Beyond: Encounters of Cedric Price and John Frazer", Coimbra: Semear Palavras, Jan. 2008.
"Furtado´s thorough and committed investigative practice is an inspiration and a benchmark of excellence" (Roy Ascott, The Planetary Collegium)
"I must ... confess a vested interest in the subject of this book and its author ... As the years progressed my respect for Gonçalo increased as I observed his tenacity as a architectural researcher..." (Neil Spiller, Bartlett)
"... an important addition to recent scholarship on Price". (Suzanne Strum, Metropolis)
" ... impressed by the depth of his research, insight and commitment ... I fully support this book written by someone with Gonçalo´s knowledge of, and passion for, the project". (Nic Bailey, Former principle collaborator)
" ... timely and promises to unlock some of the mysteries of this work" (Howard Schubert, CCA)
"... a critical text as architecture awakes in the 21th century". (Ted Krueger, RPI)
FURTADO, Gonçalo, and PÓVOAS, Rui (eds.). "Cedric Price's Generator [...]", Porto: FAUP, Sept. 2008.
"This timely book highlights the Generator, and all Price's projects the Generator may indeed come to be regarded as his most significant proposition." (John and Julia Frazer).
* A bar will be run by the students. All invited!
** During the afternoon, Professor Furtado will give a lecture at UCL.
3/2/09
LIDERA
SUPERVISÂO DE PROJECTOS LIDERA
Tatiana Nunes (coord) et alts, “Análise computacional da qualidade funcional das áreas adjacentes aos Pólos Universitários (UP)”, Pré-Proposta-Projecto Lidera Nº65-UP [Supervisão de Gonçalo Furtado e Miguel Serra], Porto, 2008.
Disponível em: http://sitesrc.up.pt/lidera/65-Analise_qualidade_funcional.pdf, acedido 2009-03-02.
Manuel Lopes (Coord.) et alt, “Mobiliário Inteligente”, Pré-proposta-Projecto Lidera Nº67-UP [Supervisão de Gonçalo Furtado e José Pedro Sousa], Porto, 2008.
Disponível em: http://sitesrc.up.pt/lidera/67-Mobil_inteligente.pdf, acedido 2009-03-02.
Luís Caló (Coord.) et alt, “Oficina de Prototipagem Rápida: Concepção e manufactura assistida por computador de maquetes para arquitectura e design industrial” Pré-proposta-Projecto Lidera Nº68-UP [Supervisão de Gonçalo Furtado e José Pedro Sousa], Porto, 2008.
Disponível, http://sitesrc.up.pt/lidera/68-Prototipagem_rapida.pdf, acedido 2009-03-02.
Tatiana Nunes (coord) et alts, “Análise computacional da qualidade funcional das áreas adjacentes aos Pólos Universitários (UP)”, Pré-Proposta-Projecto Lidera Nº65-UP [Supervisão de Gonçalo Furtado e Miguel Serra], Porto, 2008.
Disponível em: http://sitesrc.up.pt/lidera/65-Analise_qualidade_funcional.pdf, acedido 2009-03-02.
Manuel Lopes (Coord.) et alt, “Mobiliário Inteligente”, Pré-proposta-Projecto Lidera Nº67-UP [Supervisão de Gonçalo Furtado e José Pedro Sousa], Porto, 2008.
Disponível em: http://sitesrc.up.pt/lidera/67-Mobil_inteligente.pdf, acedido 2009-03-02.
Luís Caló (Coord.) et alt, “Oficina de Prototipagem Rápida: Concepção e manufactura assistida por computador de maquetes para arquitectura e design industrial” Pré-proposta-Projecto Lidera Nº68-UP [Supervisão de Gonçalo Furtado e José Pedro Sousa], Porto, 2008.
Disponível, http://sitesrc.up.pt/lidera/68-Prototipagem_rapida.pdf, acedido 2009-03-02.
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