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conversations initiated in/by/for the forum of the design computation group at MIT
participants:
aarpakMoa CarlssonFilipe Coutinho QuaresmafadDinaOnur Yuce Gunsarah hovsepianJosh IngramMoritz KassnerduksCarl LostrittoVernelle NoelmineAthina PapadopoulouWill PateraDaniel RosenbergWoong KiTheodora VardouliThomas WortmannCagri ZamanKatia Zolotovsky
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04/14/2013
By fad
This week’s reading, by popular demand from the DCG Reading Group, is Juhani Pallasmaa’s The Eyes of the Skin. We will read the ‘Introduction: Touching the World ‘ and ‘Part 2′ that looks at...(continue reading)
04/09/2013
This Tuesday we will be discussing a chapter from “How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis” by Kathleen Hayles. Hayles interrogates the meaning and practices of the emerging field of digital humanities....(continue reading)
04/02/2013
In this Tuesday’s ReaDCG session we will be discussing the third chapter of Shigehisa Kuriyama’s ”The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine.” In this chapter,...(continue reading)
03/09/2013
By mine
This week, the proposed reading is Bill Brown’s “Thing Theory” (2001) which has been an influential text especially in material culture studies. Bringing back our attentions to things rather than...(continue reading)
03/02/2013
By Cagri Zaman
Athina and I have selected two papers for the next reading group. We believe they are both contrasting and complementing each other in various ways in context of space representation...(continue reading)
02/26/2013
By fad
The next readings for the DCG follow up on the conversation from last week, ‘What is computation?’ The first article discusses the modeling of cognition, computationally and by other methods as a...(continue reading)
02/09/2013
Futures Past: Design and the Machine is a three-day conference on the institutional and intellectual history of research and visions for human-machine systems beginning in the second half of the 20th...(continue reading)
02/08/2013
This Tuesday we will discuss short selections from John Von Neumann’s seminal 1954 book “The Computer and the Brain.” As philosophers of mind Paul and Patricia Churchland describe in the...(continue reading)
01/27/2013
This publication bears a title with an intentional strike through, which, first, should signify the act of design over computation for all designers. Second, it should remind us of our...(continue reading)
01/25/2013
Bring texts that have influenced, intrigued, inspired or annoyed you and prepare for an open-ended 2-hour discussion that will make you see them with (many) new eyes! The Computation Reading Seminar (Read...(continue reading)
11/24/2012
Drawing is the motive force of architecture. This is how Peter Cook manifests the role of drawing on the cover of his book from 2008. Cook traces the evolving...(continue reading)
11/10/2012
In this week’s Read DCG we will continue the fascinating discussion on the Pictureque, the Analytic and the Digital that Moa initiated last week, and extend it with the prologue and...(continue reading)
11/01/2012
By Moa Carlsson
For this week’s reading group I have selected the following 3 texts on the topic of the Picturesque in relation to two other aesthetic ideals: the beautiful and the sublime. I...(continue reading)
10/30/2012
In this week’s Reading Group we will discuss two texts: John Frazer’s A Natural Model for Architecture (1995) and Sanford Kwinter’s The Computational Fallacy (2003). I quote here excerpts from the editors’, Achim...(continue reading)
10/23/2012
By fad
Patterning by Heat: Responsive Textile Structures An Exhibition by Felecia Davis, and Delia Dumitrescu PhD Candidate, Design and Computation, MIT School of Architecture and Planning<> PhD Candidate, The Swedish...(continue reading)
10/22/2012
This week we will be reading two short similar but quite different texts. The first reading is a chapter from Mark Johnson’s book The Meaning of the Body (2008) entitled...(continue reading)
10/12/2012
By fad
Hello DCG, for people interested in computation and textiles here are three events in the early part of November may be of interest. The IFAI is in town, or the...(continue reading)
10/07/2012
Last week we discussed Noam Andrews’ astute critique to the Space Reader, coupled with Paul Crowther’s September 28 lecture. The themes of structure, language, experience and subjectivity that were brought up...(continue reading)
09/27/2012
By duks
This is a random list of places, resources and things that might become useful for the group. Academic groups and departments Carnegie Mellon University, The School of Architecture Computational Design...(continue reading)
09/27/2012
As a follow-up to last week’s reading from Space Reader, we will read “Climate of Oppression” by Noam Andrews. Some excerpt from Climate of Oppression speak for what the...(continue reading)
09/26/2012
Couldn’t find a digital version, so took a photo -good job pen plotter!! .. I mean.. Carl! ...(continue reading)
09/24/2012
By duks
We can suggest edits to the categories in the menu for our group. This means we can have a ‘publication’ menu for example. We are also in control of the...(continue reading)
09/23/2012
By aarpak
After discussing the categories through which Antoine Picon started setting up a (history of the) digital culture in architecture, we will continue with an excerpt from “Space Reader: Heterogeneous Space...(continue reading)
09/08/2012
Geometries || Algebras [About] Design and Computation Group participation at the Advances in Architectural Geometry Video Panorama which will take place from 27th to 30th September 2012 in the Forum...(continue reading)
08/31/2012
Dear DCG, It is my great pleasure to announce the Fall 2012 Computation Reading Seminar (Read DCG). Intentions: What it is Read DCG started last Fall as a collective space for reading...(continue reading)
07/02/2012
In case you are not aware, Stiny’s Shape is available for download. If you think “a hard-copy is always the best, but a digital version would not hurt…”, here it...(continue reading)
05/27/2012
two small references: Fernando Pessoa.. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/fernando-pessoa and Cinema 2: The Time-Image from Gilles Deleuze...(continue reading)
05/12/2012
Now that the first year of Read DCG has reached its completion, we invite you to take a look at the reading list which was formed through the Group participants’ suggestions. We hope...(continue reading)
04/03/2012
By Will Patera
Found this today. GLSL sandbox running in browser (chrome). Check out the gallery for examples....(continue reading)
03/31/2012
By Will Patera
I came across this artist’s work today while browsing the internet. I have yet to read the statements in detail, but visually the installations are compelling and I thought that...(continue reading)
03/25/2012
By Will Patera
I started writing this post with the idea that I would just share a few resources that have proved incredibly useful for my/our thesis work. However, after writing the...(continue reading)
03/19/2012
Hi DCG. I’m writing to share a website I recently made that documents drawing for my thesis: http://lostritto.com/research/ The site is not an online version of the thesis, but merely...(continue reading)
02/22/2012
Though of two more links that we could add on the right side of the page, if everyone agrees. 1. A page with DCG lecture series and their posters (so...(continue reading)
02/08/2012
open Terminal and paste: << telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl >> much more and actually very useful stuff from: http://www.commandlinefu.com...(continue reading)
01/16/2012
By Will Patera
An MIT DCG alumni project goes public. http://sunglass.io/ Give the demo a try and/or take a look at the video here:...(continue reading)
12/31/2011
My son asked me about the biggest number I knew: Googolplex – first heard about it in 6th grade and never forgot. This article nicely exemplifies how the transition from...(continue reading)
12/08/2011
By Will Patera
This Friday we will be holding thesis proposal presentations for the Second Year SMarchS in the group. Each presentation will be limited to approximately 10 minutes, as there are a...(continue reading)
11/27/2011
Philippe Morel from EZCT just sent me this tool that one of his students is developing: http://wp.thibaultschwartz.com/2011/11/22/hal-abb-robots-reprogramming/. It is a Grasshopper plugin for programming ABB robots....(continue reading)
11/11/2011
For this week’s Read DCG instead of structuring the discussion around the selected readings, we will use them as entry points to the vast theme of the Space of Utopia....(continue reading)
11/07/2011
By Dina
“Did an eccentric mathematician named Charles Babbage conceive of the first programmable computer in the 1830s, a hundred years before the idea was put forth in its modern form by...(continue reading)
11/03/2011
By Will Patera
A selection of Mumford ("greatest hits", if you will).
1. "The Monastery and the Clock", inTechnics and Civilization, 1934, pp 12-18. It is a great book and many ways...(continue reading)
11/02/2011
This Friday’s forum will be open to the public has we host Ron Frankel for a discussion. Alumnus Ron Frankel (M.Arch 1996) is founder and president of an animation studio...(continue reading)
10/27/2011
By Dina
EXPERIENCES OF ARTIFACTS: People’s Appropriations / Objects’ ‘Affordances’ by Edith K. Ackerman, published in Key Works in Radical Constructivism by Ernst von Glasersfeld, 2009...(continue reading)
10/21/2011
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/10/obituary-0 He invented C, and, above all, ‘Hello World!’...(continue reading)
10/21/2011
By Will Patera
Lecture Abstract: From a background that began in computation, AI and human/computer explorations at the Architecture Machine Group (predecessor to the MIT Media Lab), Pangaro has evolved a viewpoint on...(continue reading)
10/21/2011
By Will Patera
Today, the DCG Forum will be holding an open discussion on design pedagogy, and the role (or perceived role) of computation. We are titling this discussion, “Notes From the Field,”...(continue reading)
10/20/2011
The reading for this week is By John Dewey. Chapter 5 in Art as Experience.(download pdf). I’m also uploading an earlier chapter, “Having an Experience,” which, if you’re interested, is...(continue reading)
10/13/2011
By Will Patera
We are excited to announce that tonight we have the opportunity to be presented with the works of two of our colleagues! Please come to support the presentations, learn more...(continue reading)
10/07/2011
By Will Patera
“It’s Not What You Think: An Evolutionary Theory of Spiritual Enlightenment” October 7, 2011 12:30 – 2:00pm MIT Room 7-431(Long Lounge) Jeff Lieberman Artist and Scientist, Founder, Plebian Design Abstract:...(continue reading)
10/07/2011
By Will Patera
It appears that everything is moving faster, or maybe even too fast. On Tuesday, we stood witness to media accounts of the Nobel prize in physics, awarded to the (1998)...(continue reading)
09/30/2011
By Will Patera
Round three of the internal DCG presentations. Now that we’ve had a chance to see the work of our new SMArchS Year One comrades, we are moving onwards to the...(continue reading)
09/26/2011
By Humberto Maturana Romesin. Cybernetics & Human Knowling, Vol. 9, No 3-4, 2002, pp. 5-34....(continue reading)
09/22/2011
By Will Patera
Round two of the internal DCG presentations. Once again, we are excited to announce that this Friday we have the opportunity to be presented with the works of three of...(continue reading)
09/16/2011
[...] That is the pleasure of the text: value shifted to the sumptuous rank of the signifier.* The DCG (Design and Computation Group) invites you to the Computation Reading Seminar...(continue reading)
09/15/2011
By Will Patera
We are excited to announce that this Friday we have the opportunity to be presented with the works of three of our new colleagues! Please come to support the presentations,...(continue reading)
09/12/2011
By Will Patera
A chapter from: Jones, Caroline and Galison, Peter. Picturing Science; Producing Art. Routledge, New York. 1998. pp. 329-359. The chapter is titled, “Judgement Against Objectivity”...(continue reading)
09/08/2011
What classes are we enrolled in, planning to enroll in, or considering enrolling in? Comment to this thread....(continue reading)
08/02/2011
Just as the spring semester was wrapping up I procured a pen plotter from circa 1990. (its consumer name is “HP DraftPro DXL” but its technical designation is “HP7575A”). Its...(continue reading)
04/29/2011
Our group’s exhibit is open 9am-5pm M-F in room 3-412. “Things to Think with” participates in MIT’s 150th anniversary celebration by focusing on the ways we frame architectural discourse by...(continue reading)
04/08/2011
By Will Patera
Second year SMarchS DCG members will present their thesis-in-progress to the Forum. After learning about the current state of the research, DCG Forum members will be encouraged to give feedback...(continue reading)
03/31/2011
By Will Patera
Meeting with DCG member Kaustuv DeBiswas and Kuka, a large six axis CNC robot, in the Sommerville factory. The direct performances of the robot will lead into a discussion of...(continue reading)
03/11/2011
By Will Patera
DCG SMarchs alumni (2010), Steffen Reichert and Mark Watabe will join us to talk about their work. We will discuss life after the DCG, from both academic and professional perspectives....(continue reading)
03/04/2011
I will be presenting my paper “Architecture-by-yourself: Early studies in computer aided participatory design” at the 2011 research-in-progress symposium “Beyond the Author”. The symposium will take place tomorrow, Saturday March...(continue reading)
03/02/2011
By Will Patera
DCG Forum welcomes professor Leah Buechley, who will discuss “Technology, Material, and Culture.” In professor Buechley’s words: “This talk will describe ways that my students and I blend technology with...(continue reading)
02/27/2011
By Will Patera
Congratulations to DCG PhD candidate Rizal Muslimin! Rizal’s competition entry for the 2011 “Brickstainable” competition was awarded honorable mention in the technical design category and has also been published on...(continue reading)
02/25/2011
By Will Patera
The DCG Forum is hosting an open discussion focusing on the development of “design tools.” What is the role of “generative” software in the field today, and furthermore what is...(continue reading)
02/18/2011
By Will Patera
DCG Members Kaustuv De Biswas and Skylar Tibbits, 2011 Ted Fellows, will each give five minute presentations to the group as a preview of their forthcoming TED presentation. The presentations will be...(continue reading)
02/10/2011
By Will Patera
February 11, 2011: The DCG Forum will be holding an open discussion on the topic of Design Computation Pedagogy. DCG members will introduce recent pedagogical projects to establish a framework...(continue reading)
02/10/2011
Our approach with this website is to start minimally–to make something almost featureless–and let it grow structurally only as needed and only when the content reaches certain critical mass. We’re...(continue reading)