Mentor Teams

Hey there all, the mentor teams for the workshop are:

Mark-David Hosale & Marcos Novak

Matthias Boettger & Ekim Tan

Henriëtte Bier & Frans Vogelaar

Jan-David Hanrath & Nimish Biloria

Tomasz Jaskiewicz & Theo Deutinger

Warren Neidich & Kai van Hasselt

Tatjana Djordjevic & Daniel Pavlovits

Darko Fritz & Edward Shanken
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Speakers’ Short Bios

In case you were wondering who the guys in the program are, here’s a short description of our confirmed speakers (in order of appearance):

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Conference Schedule

The conference schedule is now ready. Continue reading for the detailed program. Updated 06.05.2011.

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Public Sphere 2.0

An article written by Joris Hoogeboom is now on the must-read list. Go ahead! Here it is.

Peter Cook

We’re pleased to announce that Peter Cook is a confirmed speaker! For those of you who haven’t heard about him, here’s his wikipedia entry.

As a reminder, the lectures are public – so be there or be square!

Readings

More must-reads. Go ahead!

From Frans Vogelaar and Elizabeth Sikiaridi: Soft Urbanism, Hybrid Space Lab and The Use Of Space In The Information/Communication Age – Processing The Unplannable, Governance der Kreativwirtschaft.

From Daniel Pavlovits: Politics, Architecture and Activism.

From Tatjana Djordjevic: Instant Pleasure (1) and Instant Pleasure (2).

Indesem ’11 Winners!

Here they are! Check out the pdf here, or read below for a complete list. Looking forward to meet you in May! 

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Thursday March 10th, announcement of the winners of the competition @ zaal K, 5pm, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture.

Warren Neidich

Warren Neidich, our newest confirmed speaker, has shared with us a few articles regarding his work. They make an interesting read, so go ahead!

Here they are:

Speakers & Workshop Tutors

We’re pleased to announce that we have a preliminary list of confirmed speakers:

Here’s already a list of workshop tutors (there’s more to come!):

  • Frans Vogelaar
  • Elizabeth Sikiaridi
  • Daniel Pavlovits
  • Tatjana Djordjevic
  • [...]


Deadline warning!

Only one week left to register and submit your competition entry for the workshop! If you’re not registered, don’t forget to do so, otherwise we won’t take into account your competition submission. Hurry up!

Pre-Publication is out!

Since last week, the prepublication is out! Because we believe in sharing, you can grab a digital copy here or check around in your faculty – there might be some hard-copies lying around!

Architecture and Mind in The Age of Communication and Information

by Deborah Hauptmann – Supervisor, Indesem 2011
Excerpted and revised from the introduction to the recently published volume: Cognitive Architecture: From biopolitics to noopolitics – Architecture & mind in the age of communication and information - D. Hauptmann & W. Neidich (eds.), 010 Publishers, 2010

Deborah Hauptmann is director of the Delft School of Design at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology where she is Associate Professor in Architecture theory. In addition to teaching various theory courses in the DSD curriculum, Hauptmann lectures internationally and contributes regularly to conferences as a moderator. Her recent publications include: Cognitive Architecture: From biopolitics to noopolitics (ed. 2010), The Body in Architecture (ed. 2006); and the forward to writing and seeing Architecture:Christian de Portzamparc and Philippe Sollers (2008).

We begin with the basic premise that, in a world increasingly populated by technologies of information and communication, the analysis on biopolitics (Foucault) must be expanded to include thinking on noopolitics (Lazzarato / Deleuze). While the former acts on the body, or populations of bodies, and inscribes habits and practices specific to life (bios), the latter operates on mind (nous), on general intellect and mental disposition. Here the concept of noopolitics is broadly posited as a power exerted over the life of the mind, including perception, attention, and memory. Here we must posit questions and put forward ideas pertaining to the conditions through which world, body, brain, and mind are coupled, influenced by, and inflected through contemporary forms of material and immaterial production and processes such as those found in our current communication and information age.

Workshop Details

Workshop Information

The InDeSem workshop will take place from Friday the 13th of may until Friday the 21st of May. During this week there will be a series of lectures by renowned architects and theorists which will enrich and add detail to the Losing Ground theme as well as provide inspiration and possible leads for the workshop’s assignment.

Assignment

The main working assignment will build up on the competition theme, only it will be localized and centered around Rotterdam/Delft. The participants’ main task will be that of reconnecting the disconnected realities of today’s fragmented public spaces (virtual and physical) via architectural and urban tools and insights enabled by technological advancements.

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Participate!

Do you want to take part in the InDeSem’11 workshop? If so, due to the limited amount of participants we can receive, we’ve cooked up a small assignment to prove your skill. Read below for more details.

Background

Historically, built space has been a platform for social interaction. Nowadays, thanks to new means of communication such as Facebook, Second-life, Skype, etc. it’s possible to easily encounter with spatially distant people. It’s hard to deny that changes take place in our social behavior and the way we connect to other people.
But what’s the impact of new media onthe traditional public space?
How can you as an architect anticipate on the above-mentioned with physical or spatial tools? And how can architecture provide new ways of social interaction? Technology already brought us possibilities to contact each other virtually. Now it’s time to integrate these modern technologies in physical objects which will (re)connect our physical and virtual environment.
Assignment

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Losing Ground

Have you already used the ‘Like’ button today? Do you still send letters by post? Where do you interact more with your friends – on Skype or at a café? In recent years our means of interacting with one another have changed dramatically thanks to emerging virtual realities, globalization and mass customization. Historically, built space has been a platform for social interaction; how can architecture ensure a relevant public role in this emerging media driven society, which seems to operate entirely separate from traditional collective spaces?In the face of this phenomenon, it could be said that architecture as we know it is losing ground to new cultural forms. The possibilities of instantly expressing and sharing our myriad individual thoughts and beliefs, increasingly at anytime and anyplace, are creating fundamental changes in society and consequently our spatio-temporal practices.

Where, as designers, do we now take our cues: The liquid phenomenology of the screen? The emergent qualities of advanced algorithms? Endless iterations of ‘related links’? The grassroots democracy of the ‘Like’ button?  Architecture sees itself in a moment in which existing paradigms have to be redefined and new values have to be critically evaluated and tested so as to be able to properly form an active approach to the challenges posed by an increasing divide between old and new social realities.

Designers must find ways to operate in this new context. Is architecture able to provide new models for the intersection between the media-driven society and physical environment, and can this be balanced with traditional social interaction and engagement? In recent years we have seen various suggestions; liquid, interactive architecture, ever mutating according to the needs of the user,  ‘blurring’ architecture, based on spatial qualities suggested the computer screen; open-source urbanism, employing the participatory dynamics of games; light, nomadic urban forms made possible by infrastructural and communications networks, and so on. Conversely, is it still possible to argue that there is no pressing need for change, that we should instead reinforce historical types and stable, tried-and-tested notions of social space?

INDESEM 2011 will investigate these questions with appropriate philosophical and practical tools. It will do so in a one-week workshop for 80 international students, comprising lectures, excursions, exhibitions, debates, documentaries and more.

InDeSem

What makes INDESEM (INternational DEsign SEMinar) special is the cooperation between students of different nationalities and renowned architects and theorists. INDESEM was organized for the 1st time in 1962 by a group of students (Wiek Röling among others) directly connected to Stylos.

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The Board

InDeSem ’11 is organized by the following enthusiastic students of the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture:

The Board:

  • Joris Hoogeboom
  • Milou Joosten
  • Marloes van Zelst
  • Ruben Smits
  • Raven Kluijfhout
  • Daphne Bakker
  • PeterSmisek

Collaborators:

Here’s us in the order we’re listed above:

Supervisor:

  • Deborah Hauptmann.

Supporting teacher:

  • Machiel van Dorst.

You can reach us at this email.

InDeSem'11 Public Calendar