A RETROSPECTIVE PUBLICATION ON GORDON PASK ON SCIENCE AND ART

See: Gonçalo Furtado,
“Curiosity and Last Concerns: Brief Notes on Professor ‘G’”, in: Gonçalo Furtado, Albert Müller, Rui Póvoas (eds.),
"Gordon Pask on Science and Art", Oporto: FAUP [A cooperation between UP and Wien University], 2009, p.59-62.

ARTSTATION

GONÇALO FURTADO and GLENN DAVIDSON “A CONVERSATION ON GORDON PASK AND ARTSTATION", (APRIL 2008/9) , in: ARTSTATION, May 2009.

VAN BERKEL

"our interest was never solely focussed on the geometry, nor on the computational techniques themselves. Our interest lay largely in the possibility to carry out spatial experiments and to see how the resulting structures could actually be constructed. Prior to this it was extremely difficult to control complex spaces and it involved a great deal of time. These new techniques meant we could work at greater speed and be more daring in our experiments with spatial organisational principles. (...)
We have learnt instead that by looking back at certain qualities in a number of projects you can discover that they share a particular set of ideas, solutions, conceptual and formal qualities which when combined could potentially produce a key work. Lately, rather than isolating projects, we have adopted this understanding and approach. This is something you also see in music and in art."
Van Berkel, Intervieewd by Gonçalo Furtado and Diogo Moreira.
"THE COMPLEX GEOMETRY AT UNStudio: A CONVERSATION WITH BEN VAN BERKEL’S STUDIO", To be published in Arq./a, June 2009.

Nexus 2010

Nexus 2010: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics.
Call for Papers

Sessions:
Shape and Shape Grammars, Lionel March, Moderator
From Mediaeval Stonecutting to Projective Geometry: Formal, Social and Epistemological Shifts, José Calvo-López, Moderator
Architecture, Systems Research and Computational Sciences, Gonçalo Furtado, Moderator
Guerrilla Tactics of Digital Design, Chris Beorkrem, Moderator
Miscellaneous (for papers that do not fall into one of the above categories), Kim Williams, Moderator

Round Tables
Generative Architecture codeness, Celestino Soddu, Moderator
The Geometric Construction of Morphology, Alberto Sdegno, Moderator

Info: Nexus Network Journal webpage:
http://www.nexusjournal.com/CFP-Nexus2010.html

TEMAS MESTRADO FEUP

Mestrado em Design Industrial
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
2009



REALIZAÇÃO DE DISSERTAÇÕES DE MESTRADO - ÁREAS PROPOSTAS PELO DOCENTE GONÇALO FURTADO

a) Tema relacionado com Teoria do Design Contemporâneo
b) Tema relacionado com Design Industrial e Prototipagem rápida
c) Tema relacionado com Design de Interiores, Arquitectura Inteligente e Interface.

Modelação cad-cam

Diogo Aguiar e Gonçalo Furtado, MODELAÇÃO E MANUFACTURA: MODELAÇÃO GEOMÉTRICA, MANUFACTURA E CONSTRUÇÃO ASSISTIDA POR COMPUTADOR, IN ARQ./A, N.69, MAIO 2009, P.64-69

GORDON PASK ON SCIENCE AND ART

GORDON PASK ON SCIENCE AND ART: A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION ON A BRITISH CYBERNETICIAN

CURATED BY Gonçalo Furtado and Albert Müller /ORGANIZED BY Gonçalo Furtado, Albert Müller and Rui Póvoas
F.A.U.P. - ESPAÇO DO MUSEU, 1st to the 15th of June 2009, 9-13h and 14-18h.

"Gordon Pask (1928-1996) was one of the most important figures in British and international cybernetics, and an influential promoter of second-order cybernetics. Starting in the 1950s with the experimentation with adaptive machines and computers, Pask developed towards the 1960s and 1970s highly innovative theoretical approaches that could be applied to a variety of fields including social and natural sciences as well as the humanities and arts. So called Conversation Theory is certainly one of the most interesting unifying theories based on the framework of systems sciences.
Pask was regarded by friends, fellow scientists and students as a veritable “genius”. Being both a researcher and a charismatic teacher, Pask was able to maintain a balance between running his own research lab and pursuing his world-wide activities at universities and other institutions. In addition, and embodying the tradition of the Victorian dandy, he had aspirations to combine science achievements with art. In fact, Pask acknowledged the presence of both areas in his life, and he was involved in and made important contributions to the fields of architecture and design.
'Gordon Pask on Science and Art' is a retrospective exhibition on this British cybernetician. It presents hundreds of documents, photographs, reports, correspondence related to Pask’s life and work in general and to his relationship to art, architecture and design in particular. Visitors can tour a well-structured series of exhibition zones and are invited to explore the great variety of Pask’s work as well as the complexity of his mind.
The exhibition is a result of a cooperation of Oporto University and the University of Vienna, and benefited from the curatorial work of Gonçalo Furtado, an expert on Gordon Pask from the Faculdade de Arquitectura, and Albert Müller, a historian with the University of Vienna who is the archivist of the Pask collection. Professor Rui Póvoas is a co-organizer of the exhibition.
The exhibition will take place at FAUP’s museum exhibition space from the 1st to the 15th of June 2009, and it will open to the academic and general public. The opening will be accompanied by a public address by FAUP’s Vice-dean Rui Póvoas and Professors Gonçalo Furtado and Albert Müller. Furtado will focus on his primary research on Pask as well as his book (in-print) which provides an account of Pask’s life and career. Müller will underline the importance of archival material in history of science studies."