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What would be the main characteristics of the new culture and how would it compare with essential urbanity?
– Against the spectacle of individual progress, the realised situationist urbanity introduces the recognition of “the other” and its differences as essential step towards collaboration.
– Against preserved education, it is posed learning through direct experience with relational civic interactions, conflict management and “doing with others” strategies.
– Against particularised design, it will be a global practice with a bearing, each moment, on all the available elements. Naturally this would tend to collective production which would be without doubt anonymous (the claim of exclusive authorship would reveal suspicious and works will no longer be stocked as commodities but as means to reach collective goals). The minimum proposals of these experiences will be a revolution in behaviour and a dynamic unitary urbanism capable of extension to the entire planet, and may become the key to access to all parallel universes created by a new conscious observation of all micro-ordinary events of the city.
– Against unilateral art, situationist culture will be an art of dialogue, an art of interaction, an art of conflict as enabling force. The enclosed era of primitivism and isolated design solutions must be superseded by complete communication and open peer to peer tools to reach dynamic equilibrium between opposites in a given urban system.
At micro-ordinary level, everyone will become a coder generating the conditions for its playful existence to insert and work within the urban system of interactions.
It will happen that when opening the door and going where the street begins, it won’t appear the already known houses aligned in the moulded sidewalk, but a living forest where every moment “can be thrown like a magnolia and where the faces will born when looking at them”.[2] This violent emotive possession of the streets will provide exciting treasures for those drifters taking the challenge to explore alien quarters and neighbors.[3]
“”περίπατος- περιπλάνηση η αναδημιουργία του χάρτη(*) της πόλης μέσα από τη συνειρμική(**) συλλογή υλικού με χρονική ταυτότητα(***) …στόχος η εξερεύνηση των παράξενων ,ανοίκειων, περιθωριακών, ετεροτοπικών, ονειρικών στοιχείων της πόλης που δεν υπάρχουν σε πρώτο πλάνο
We have just move inside what will historically be the evolutive urban dimension. The role of amateur-professional —of adhocrat— is again a specialisation up to the point of social and mental interaction, when everyone becomes a node in the sense that the new system will remain in the strength of its connections. This task will be slowly filtering into to the society without a permanent division of labour, thus generating activities for which we haven’t invented the names yet.
To those who don’t understand us properly, we say with an irreducible will: “We await the turning point which is the inevitable liquidation of the world of economic progress, in all its fictional forms. Such are our goals, and these will be the future goals of urbanity.”
“It is the business of the future to be dangerous”
—A.N. Whitehead
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/CSTB/CompletedProjects/CSTB_042322
Doctor Atomic opera about the Manhattan Project
- Breaking the Code, Broadway play about Alan Turing
- A Beautiful Mind biography of John Nash
- Laurie Anderson as NASA Artist in Residence
- LOGICOMIX, graphical novel about the history of Logic
- Bruce Nauman’s installations using infrared surveillance cameras
- The Listening Post and Moveable Type collaborative projects of Mark Hansen (statistician) and Ben Rubin (artist)
Bridging the Two Cultures is a grand challenge.
There is a fundamental asymmetry and complementarity between them: the word Science comes from the Greek “to cut.” The word Art comes from the Latin “to join.”
what about the greek word +τεχνη-
The results can be extremely productive by expanding public interest and engagement with both sectors, bringing new topics to new audiences, and educating and inspiring the next generation to transcend existing boundaries to discover and create the future of innovations. STEM fields have always valued creative minds, and the best artists excel at highly unconventional, unorthodox thinking. Artists also are excellent at capturing and representing the zeitgeist in elegant, compelling ways. That quality suggests that fruitful collaboration between scientists and artists can yield not only interesting ideas and “products,” they may also build in effective modes of communicating the value of that work to a wide audience.