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Digital vernacular - In-Situ Resource Utilisation - <wrap hi>Support and Infill</wrap> framework negotiating contingent forces in architecture <wrap hi>"Practicing the Digital Vernacular embraces the inherent opportunities provided by new digital technology while maintaining the virtues of working manually with hand tools."</wrap> Digital Vernacular - Stevens and Nelson **RMIT examples:** https://practice-research.com/presentations/prs-europe-november-2020/diffracting-construction **Adapt-R** http://adapt-r.eu/research-database/ * Examination example: http://adapt-r.eu/research-database/examination-tom-holbrook/?searched=1 ------ Bioceramics? ------ **Loughborough phd programme** https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees/research-areas/architecture/ “Architectural Legacies, Architectural Tectonics and Digital Architecture” * Building structures and materials * Building performance and systems * Digital fabrication * Automated and AI design * Human robot co-creation * XR architecture * Adaptable architecture * Design pedagogy * Architectural history and theory * Socio-behavioural impacts of architecture * Built environment heritage and legislation * Urban morphology and mapping * Architecture as social mediator **Notes** architected metamaterials http://scf.acm.org/ - symposium on computational fabrication Low resolution Self assembly - Skylar Tibbits MIT https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/being-material Disassembly value Adaptation to environment Self organising systems Hierarchical assembly Functionally Graded Material - FGM Post-production challenge <wrap hi>Digital Materials Symmetrical units that can be connected in any orientation - 2.5d voxels</wrap> **Mollie Claypool** Discrete Automation https://space10.com/project/digital-in-architecture/ https://videos.theconference.se/mollie-claypool-discrete Striated workforce / adversarial procurement Part to whole vs whole to part relationships (bottom up) Crisis of syntax - new ontology of built space for less bias - enabling heterogeneity https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/becoming-digital/ https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/becoming-digital/248060/discrete-automation/ **Neri Oxman** - Material Ecology Digital Vernacular https://space10.com/project/digital-in-architecture/ <wrap hi>Design and analysis of digital materials for physical 3D voxel printing Jonathan Hiller and Hod Lipson</wrap> //Voxel. (volume-x-element A fundamental, physical, aligned object, constrained to a repeating unit of physical 3D space. Not necessarily cubic or space filling. “do not typically have their position (i.e. coordinates) explicitly encoded with their values. Instead, rendering systems infer the position of a voxel based upon its position relative to other voxels”// Digital material. Material composed of many such assembled voxels. Refers to the overall material, which is defined by the voxel topology, how the voxels are assembled, and the material each voxel is constructed of. “Matter is fundamentally digital if it considered in terms of distinct, regularly repeating regions (voxels) that tessellate 3D space. In much the same way as a digital byte is binary, the occupation of each voxel-space within the solid must be defined as either present or not present” ------- **Microbial relations** Newcastle program - BIOME // Transplanetary Imaginaries of Living Architecture: Sociocultural Explorations of More-than-Human Relations in Off-Earth and Futuristic Habitats // In-Situ Resource Utilization in the Extra-Terrestrial Critical Zone or speculative cultural materialism of interplanetary intentional communities Environmental niche - microbiomes of intentional communities Geoengineering - biochar - carbon control Speculative fiction and microbiomes - depictions of terraforming and colonisation - cli-fi - hyperobjects How is extra-terrestrial microbiome manifested in SF? Controlling boundaries of human microbiome in space habitats and planetary protection issues Legible, hackable microbiomes capable of adaptation. Tailored to suit environment. Minimal launch mass materials for rapid expansion and growth in use - growing, foaming, expanding, replication Radiation protection, thermal protection, structure vs skin - questions of trust in living, changing materials Different cultural relationships with home and shelter and impacts on habitats and ships - language, personalisation, anthropomorphism Cultural attitudes to archetypal forms or spaces Maintenance - building management - live adaptation and repair Terraforming before human arrival - seeding habitats, automated, uncontrolled Waste recycling - closed systems, closed microbiomes Non-human companions in habitats and impacts on microbiome The Microbiome Vernacular ---- How the microbiome challenges our concept of self https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2005358 Anthropology of microbes https://www.pnas.org/content/109/17/6378#T1 cultural materialism, the investigation of how material realities such as technological, economic, and demographic factors mold and influence culture; '...Bringing anthropology and human microbial ecology into a meaningful dialogue allows for new modes of collaborative research. It should create a symbiosis that enables both fields to codevelop in ways that encourage a more profound view of our “humanness”—transforming our categories of “community,” “individual,” and “life,” and in the process helping to address major global health inequities…' ----+ NET - Negative Emissions Technology Return to Papanek / Schumacher? Toggle WYSIWYG editor research/lines_of_enquiry.txt Last modified: 2021/03/29 22:16by rob Log In