Together with Dr. Eva Sommeregger, we will give a lecture at the RIXC Splintered Realities Conference in Riga. Below you will find our abstract.<\/p>\n
Topic(s): Techno-Ecological Sensoriums, AI and Biological Systems<\/p>\n
Keywords: Digital Landscapes, Polynesian Navigation, Algorithmic
\nSpatiality<\/p>\n
Abstract: To co-exist, and particularly to co-live, with algorithms
\nand living environments request for new conceptual models of space –
\nnew models that transgress binary oppositions, able to reflect the
\nmulti-layered and interconnected coexistence of the digital and the
\nphysical, as well as the living and non-living beyond their
\ndistinction.<\/p>\n
The proposed text discusses the limitations of Western concepts
\nconcerning the design of spaces loaded with digitally supported
\npractices and data collection. Aware that we can only ever develop a
\npartial understanding of non-Western thought, we aim to raise the
\nconsciousness of the specificities of the world models constructed by
\nPolynesian navigation.<\/p>\n
Following Haraway\u2019s speculative fabulation method (1), new
\narchitectural models are sought to create new terrain beyond binary
\noppositions, reflecting the multi-layered and interconnected
\ncoexistence of the digital and the physical beyond their distinction.
\nTraditional Western concepts of spatiality, such as those by Euclid,
\nDescartes or Newton – a source of prejudice in Western, educated,
\nindustrialised, wealthy and democratic thinking (2) – cannot cope with
\nthe multi-layered and intertwined nature of digital and physical
\ninterdependence. To leave behind binary divisions and notions of
\nunchangeable, pre-existing container space, the theories of Deleuze
\nand Guattari proved more beneficial. The world does not emerge from
\nthe subject, but processes of subjectivation emerge from the
\ninteractions between body and world (3).<\/p>\n
In search of a conception of avatar navigation, interestingly,
\nnon-Western representations can also serve well: Conceptual models of
\nPolynesian navigation create an animated world in flux around the
\ntraveller (4). During a journey, the moving canoe is the fixed point
\nof reference, while the islands, flock of birds and fish, currents,
\nwinds and the like pass by the boat along the itinerary. Many of these
\nPolynesian world model qualities apply to the body when it
\ncommunicates or resides in the digital medium: The body is fixed while
\nthe digital architecture moves in the flow. Consequently, the water
\nmetaphor, to be found in data streams and in practices of navigating
\nor surfing the internet, reminds us that the rules learned from
\n(human) life on earthly grounds no longer apply to the posthuman world
\nof data. Instead, humans need architecture, such as a boat or a
\ndigital device, to find their ways in the flowing cosmos.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, the shift from discussing spaces as territory
\nco-inhabited by humans to an undefined realm in which humans have no
\nplace can be retraced in recent architectural discourse: While NOX’s
\nFreshwater-Pavilion from 1997 (5), for instance, aims at the
\ninteraction of built environment and human audience by making a
\ncertain degree of human habitation visible through state-of-the-art
\ntechnology, recent projects like the Google data centres and the like
\neerily construct architectures in which humans are seen as
\nsuperfluous, declared mere accessories (6). The biggest discrepancy
\nwith their predecessors, such as libraries or teaching institutions,
\nis their interconnectedness with the digital domains that depend on
\nthem: The physicality of data centres can only provide an index or
\nindication of the vast digital and data spaces they host. But,
\nequally, they create an awareness of the enormous physical-spatial
\nresources required for data storage and the functioning of the
\ndigital, underlining the reciprocal relationships and interconnections
\nof the digital and the physical that go far beyond binary
\ncategorisation.<\/p>\n
In our research, we are looking for a new architectural narrative,
\ninspired by the animated world model constructed around the Polynesian
\ncanoe, to cope with and counteract the demands made by the
\nunpredictable digital flow and to contribute another partial
\nperspective to a non-binary theory of new data landscapes.<\/p>\n
References: Together with Dr. Eva Sommeregger, we will give a lecture at the RIXC Splintered Realities Conference in Riga. Below you will find our abstract. Topic(s): Techno-Ecological Sensoriums, AI and Biological Systems Keywords: Digital Landscapes, Polynesian Navigation, Algorithmic Spatiality Abstract: To co-exist, and particularly to co-live, with algorithms and living environments request for new conceptual models..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,35],"tags":[47,45,44,46],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-lectures","tag-ai","tag-koering","tag-rixc","tag-splintered-realities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arphenotype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(1) Donna Haraway (2013) SF: Science Fiction, Speculative Fabulation,
\nString Figures, So Far. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and
\nTechnology, No.3. doi:10.7264\/N3KH0K81
\n(2) Many Minds podcast (2020) WEIRD: Adventures of an Acronym
\nhttps:\/\/neuroanthropology.net\/2010\/07\/10\/we-agree-its-weird-but-is-it-weird-enough\/<\/a>;
\nretrieved 2022-06-12
\n(3) Karan August, Zakaria DJebbara, Stavros Kousoulas, Andej Radman
\n(2020) The Architecture of the Virtual – An Encounter between
\nCognitive Neurosciences and Architecture.
\n(4) Lars Eckstein & Anja Schwarz (2019) The Making of Tupaia\u2019s Map:
\nA Story of the Extent and Mastery of Polynesian Navigation, Competing
\nSystems of Wayfinding on James Cook\u2019s Endeavour, and the Invention
\nof an Ingenious Cartographic System, The Journal of Pacific History,
\n54:1, 1-95, DOI: 10.1080\/00223344.2018.151236
\nInterestingly, also in the 1990s, architectural theorists have
\nspeculated on inverting the only seemingly fixed relationship between
\nstatic, pre-existing space and its (mobile) observer(s) within. See
\nLars Spuybroek, Motor Geometry, Architectural Design 68, no. 5\/6
\n(1998): 48\u201355
\n(5) Lars Spuybroek (1998) Motor geometry, see above and great example
\nas we speak about the flow within the water, surfing the web – or the
\nvirtual space.
\n(6) Rem Koolhaas (2020), Countryside \u2013 A Report; The Guardian:
\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2020\/feb\/11\/rem-koolhaas-rural-countryside-the-future-guggenheim<\/a>;
\nretrieved 2022-06-12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"