Thursday, September 17
6:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue
Opening Reception
Lunchtime Project Presentation: Natural Fuse
Friday, September 18
12:30 P.M.
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue
For many of us these days, “home” is an idea constructed from several places–we live in social environments and neighborhoods composed of networked fragments that bridge huge geographical distances. Usman Haque will talk about such architectural issues with specific reference to his project “Natural Fuse.”
Happy Hour Project Presentation: Breakout!
Friday, September 25
7:00 p.m.
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue
Laura Forlano, Dana Spiegel, Antonina Simeti, and Anthony Townsend will discuss the inspirations, design, and initial experiences with their experiment of mobile work.
Scrapyard Challenge
Saturday, September 26
Workshop, 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Performance and reception, 6:00 p.m.
The Old American Can Factory
232 Third Street at Third Avenue
Gowanus, Brooklyn
League members, $30; non-members, $50
The Scrapyard Challenge Workshops, led by artists Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katharine Moriwaki, are intensive workshops where participants build simple electronic music controllers (both digital and analog inputs) out of found or discarded [...]
Happy Hour Project Presentation: Trash Track
Friday, October 2
7:00 p.m.
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue
Members of MIT’s SENSEable City Lab will discuss the extensive research underlying their project, as well as initial observations gleaned from the accumulated data.
Sentient City Case Studies: New Songdo City and Meixi Lake
James von Klemperer, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Wednesday, October 7
7:00 p.m.
Scholastic Auditorium, 557 Broadway
Working in collaboration with Cisco Systems, Kohn Pedersen Fox is currently master-planning two new cities–New Songdo City, South Korea and Meixi Lake, Hunan Province, China–in which all information systems–residential, medical, business–will be linked. Organized around eight “tracks” within a city, the systems will be [...]
Happy Hour Project Presentation: Too Smart City
Friday, October 9
7:00 p.m.
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue
JooYoun Paek and David Jimison will discuss building high tech robotic street furniture meant to fail every time. The talk will focus on their research into street furniture in New York City public parks, efforts to mimic the aesthetics of public design, and the potential for sentient [...]
The Sentient City Charrette and Pin-Up
Design problems announced, October 14
Pin-up, Wednesday, October 21
The Sentient City design charrette is intended as a speculative exercise for architects, artists, technologists, and related design professionals to engage the themes of the exhibition. A set of design problems will be announced by the League via email and posted to its website on Wednesday, October 14. [...]
Happy Hour Project Presentation: Amphibious Architecture
Friday, October 16
7:00 p.m.
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue
Natalie Jeremijenko, David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang will talk about the interconnected ecosystems of land and water, and the potential overlap between social networks of fish, people, and buildings.
Introduction
Over the past several years, as the Architectural League has become increasingly involved in exploring the proliferation of various types of ambient, mobile, and ubiquitous computer technologies, we have often been asked, what does this have to do with architecture?
About the Commissions
The five commissioned projects were selected from a pool of more than 150 responses to an international request for qualifications issued by the Architectural League in spring 2008. Teams were awarded grants of between $15,000 and $25,000 each, made possible by the J. Clawson Mills Fund of the Architectural League. Teams have been developing their [...]