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IoA Sliver Lecture
Primordial Networks: Like Water Inside of Water
January 14, 7pm, 2009 Lichthof 2, University of Applied Arts Vienna
The recent challenges of environmental science and activism have not been met by the
architectural profession with innovative intellectual or imaginative propositions. And yet, it is
the task of the design disciplines to discover new ways of understanding the human
relationship to the environment, even ones that leave much of its past conventions
behind. "Ecological thinking" represents one such radical foundational departure, but it is
one that should not be seen as foreign to the design disciplines, for it has everything to do
with how forms are made and how they arrive in our midst. Contemporary models from
evolutionary theory to the neurosciences are adopting 'ecological' perspectives and
conceiving their objects as products of networked interactions. A change in thinking is
called for today that goes well beyond the current scope of 'sustainability' discourses.
In 2007, The Institute of Architecture (IOA) initiated an annual series of lectures and
exhibitions to foster exchange between students, faculty, professionals and the general
public. The IOA SLIVER series presents a set of thin but deep ‘slices’ through a variety
of design disciplines.
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