Anlässlich des Design Modelling Symposiums haben wir unsere Autoren Sabina Barcucci (Architektin) und Bertram Niessen (Artist, Teacher, Soziologe) eingeladen um uns Ihre zweitägigen Eindrücke aufzuzeichnen. Ihre Konversation ist bald auf deutsch verfügbar. Hier ein erster Vorgeschmack auf Englisch:

Bertram Niessen: one of the things that has struck me the most during the Symposium was the parallelism between the new centrality of data within the process of material production and the general transformations of the information society. I’ve been thinking about this passage for a long time, i.e., as far digital handcraft and peer-to-peer material production concern; but I hadn’t ever fully realized that it’s playing out even in the architecture field.

The fact that information is now at the centre of attention is one of the main changes into the social, cultural and manufacturing systems, in which by means of radically new tools we’re now able to collect quantitative and qualitative data, from social networks to every type of sensors. API (Application Programming Interface) makes the real time exchange of data among a variety of platforms and programs worldwide possible. Furthermore, object libraries for programming make the analysis and the design through software more and more accessible, by steadily opening new scenarios even for those categories (artists, designers, researchers) who don’t traditionally deal with IT in their work. As API makes the exchange among different programs easier, new User Interface design are revolutionizing the way in which human beings can intervene on machines, by turning the cognitive models of design and production.

Sabina Barcucci: this is only a foretaste of technological innovation brought by Parametric Architecture. If we look beyond the external or technological features that contribute to material production, we can notice the centrality gained by this process in Contemporary Design.

In the practice we see that this centrality is the consequence of a need linked to the complexity level of new technologies. From one hand, we find some collaborations, that is to say different groups of people, living in different countries worldwide, work through the Web on a same large-scale project (called “large-scale concurrent design”), where the demand of updates and interrelationships couldn’t work through standard tools. On the contrary, the use of management tools which speak the same language of the complexity they have to deal with, is needed, so that they can trigger off multi-authorship of the final handiwork.

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Der komplette Beitrag ist hier auf englisch publiziert. Wir danken digicult.it und den Autoren für die freundliche Unterstützung.