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For the last few years the social/political side of architecture and the formal side of architecture have been split within discourse into two operational modes: crunchy "hands-on" and slick "computer-on". These fronts are not oppositional. The truth is that in our largely networked world, socially minded design is not restricted to the honesty of material culture, but is an active participant in a pervasive, democratic digital realm. It is not more complicated than that, but also not easier than that.
Mimi Zeiger reviews Alejandro Aravena's Venice Architecture Biennale
architects vs. scientists
In 1972 psychologist, architect and design researcher Bryan Lawson conducted an empirical study to investigate the difference between problem-focused solvers and solution-focused solvers. He took two groups of students – final year students in architecture and post-graduate science students – and asked them to create one-layer structures from a set of colored blocks. The perimeter of the structure had to optimize either the red or the blue color; however, there were unspecified rules governing the placement and relationship of some of the blocks. Lawson found that:
The scientists adopted a technique of trying out a series of designs which used as many different blocks and combinations of blocks as possible as quickly as possible. Thus they tried to maximise the information available to them about the allowed combinations. If they could discover the rule governing which combinations of blocks were allowed they could then search for an arrangement which would optimise the required colour around the layout. [problem-focused] By contrast, the architects selected their blocks in order to achieve the appropriately coloured perimeter. If this proved not to be an acceptable combination, then the next most favourably coloured block combination would be substituted and so on until an acceptable solution was discovered. [solution-focused]
— Bryan Lawson, How Designers Think
Nigel Cross concluded that Lawson's studies suggested that scientists problem solve by analysis, while designers problem solve by synthesis. Kelley and Brown argue that design thinking uses both analysis and synthesis.
From: Design thinking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Las tecnologías […] son formas de figuración materializada; esto es, aúnan ensamblajes [assemblages] de cosas [stuff] y significados en arreglos [arrangements] más o menos estables. Estos arreglos implican, por su parte, formas particulares de asociar humanos y máquinas. Una de las maneras de intervenir en las actuales prácticas de desarrollo tecnológico, por tanto, sería a través de la consideración crítica de cómo los humanos y las máquinas son actualmente figurados en esas prácticas y cómo podrían ser figurados –y configurados- de otra manera
Suchman, (2007: p.227)
Traducción de Tomás Sánchez Criado @tsanchez
That is the material we already have and that can be shared in spaces of exchange, transformed by a new understanding of the territories we inhabit and the means we use to occupy and modify it.
Alchemy of the Classroom, by dpr-barcelona — Volume #45: Learning

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…some of the practitioners working on the margins of architecture should be wary of becoming an updated heroic version of Howard Roark, perpetuating the master and the student roles.
Alchemy of the Classroom, by dpr-barcelona — Volume #45 Learning
“In those years it became very clear that to continue to design furniture, objects and similar house hold decorations was no solution to problems of living and not even to those of life, and even less could it serve to save one’s own soul…
It became clear that no beautification or cosmetic were sufficient to remedy the damage of time, the errors of man and the bestiality of architecture…
The problem therefore was that of increasing detachment from those activities of design adopting perhaps the theory of minimal force in a general “process of reduction”.
– Superstudio, Histograms, 1968
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THINK PUBLIC SPACE [The New Publicness]
Cities around Europe are grounds of ever intensifying conflict between two paradigms. On the one hand side we are witnesses of urban development as an infrastructure of global capital, and on the other hand side the traditional idea of maintaining the concept of a city as a political place in which sovereignty thrives on public squares. While the first paradigm sees the private interests necessarily transform into public ones, the other looks upon public sphere as the last defensive line against gentrification. Architecture, in this case acts as a discipline providing the spatial and physical framework for this conflict of interests in public space.
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As the public space of a city is a key place of conflict of economical and political paradigms of the society the task is to respond to the question of architecture’s ability (as a specific discipline) to intervene in this process. What is actually the support and function of architecture in times of growing economical and political instability and its repercussions on public space? Is architecture forced to rely on its own knowledge, its own form in these times, or, and how to include other disciplines in co-creating the public sphere? Or is this a hidden opportunity to liberate architecture of superfluous narratives? In the end, to what extent can architectural form play the role of the universal form, a place in which conditions for creating an Event are formed, in which interests and conflicts are mitigated and which constitutes a public sphere and a physical space for all users? Scenarios are to be created of human interaction and their manifestations in public space of a city within the European context.
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From: http://www.think-space.org/en/think-public-space/competition/competition-brief/
Drawing by Ben Tolman.
there will be a smoother and less onerous form of infrastructure, because with infrastructure the problem is it’s either completely absent or incredibly heavy-handed, and there’s nothing in between. I think that that is one very crucial thing that needs to be invented, a kind of light infrastructure.
Rem Koolhaas: “There’s Been Very Little Rethinking Of What Cities Can Be”

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By Jonathan Chomko and Matthew Rosier.
2014 Playable City Award
All over Europe, we see new forms of cooperation and collaboration – “commoning”: the collective venture of sharing, collaboration, negotiation and creative production. Citizens and communities are developing alternative democratic practices.
‘Build the City’, is about applying the principles and ethics of the commons to the transformation of the city, its communities and its economy. It is about people creating more sustainable cities through social cooperation and active participation, with culture at its heart.
‘The City’ here does not refer exclusively to urban environments and infrastructure. In this instance ‘The City’ can refer to a neighbourhood or community where people are working together through cultural activities to shape their environments, improve life in the city, and develop new social and economic relationships between people.
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I am the city, too.
More: Radical Democracy: Reclaiming the Commons (and in spanish)
if it is a system designed by an architect it will probably allow adequately for the plan-function factor, if by an engineer for structural factors only
RIBA, 1939. Architecture in uniform, ICON