Living in a Smart City
Interdiscilpanry Design
When a city can gather data on every aspect of it's citizens activities, what should we do with it? What products, services and environments should we develop? Rather than asking when is this future coming, I'd like to ask what will we do once it's here.
This class is taught by George Aye and with IBM's Director or Citizenship of Technology, John Tolva. It ran Spring semester 2011 and was built on the model of small, problem-centric multi-disciplinary teams of students from Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects at graduate and undergraduate levels. I worked on many different aspects of the project but my main duty was the model.
Load Bang
Art and Technology
The show engaged notions of embodied presence and technological mediation using a range of creative techniques and media, combined with a healthy dose of irony. The pieces in the show employed a range of materials and subjects, from dry ice to war casualties, from sunsets to brainwaves to shadows, from 3d cameras to durational dance and ephemeral architecture. On the technical side, many of the the projects utilize programming to drive various live and occasionally interactive media systems. The work took the form of live performances, installations and screenings shown over the course of a weekend at the Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery.
http://www.nadassor.net/livemedia11
Thesis
Infrastructural Urbanism is a form of architecture that “goes beyond stylistic formal issues” (Stan Allen). It understands architecture as “[a] material practice and as an activity that works in and among the world of things, and not exclusively with meaning and image.” Since Sao Paulo is already in a transitional phase because of the 2016 Olympics, implementing new ideas will recreate the current definition of the status quo. Creating modular elements that will embody renewable and native material will help stabilize and showcase the potential this neighborhood has for a rehabilitated future.