Julien De Smedt is to lecture on the subject Advancing in Basic Architecture on Friday, 19 June, 2009 at the IAAC Auditorium in Barcelona, Spain at 19.30 h.

More information can be found on the IAAC site.

This coming Thursday, 4 June, Disseny Hub Barcelona (DHUB) is holding lectures and a round table discussion entitled, “New Landscapes – Architecture Beyond Leisure”.

Speakers will include the architects, Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda (AMID cero9), Julien de Smedt (JDS Architects) and Fabien Girardin (a member of the “Grupo de Tecnologías Interactivas” at the Universidad Pompeu Fabra). The event will be moderated by Mario Ballesteros and Irene Hwang.

Day: Thursday, 04 June 2009
Time: from 7 p.m.
Venue: DHUB Montcada (c/ Montcada, 12. Barcelona)
Admission free
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IaaC is pleased to invite you to the open lecture of EcoLogicStudio: Claudia Pasquerro and Marco Poletto.
Friday 12th of December.
19:30h
IaaC Main Hall
C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou

In an age of unprecedented interaction between the natural and the artificial realms we are confronted with the necessity to develop instruments of transformation equipped with an embedded capacity of constant adaptation and self evaluation. As nature is becoming more and more hybridized with embedded artificiality, the ethical paradigm of natural conservation is progressively losing its value and needs to be replaced with more adaptive mechanisms of management and direct evaluation of the effects of human transformation of natural ecosystems; we call this mechanism ecoMachines.

ecoMachines provide a material and operational framework to deal with change and transformation, the two main defining qualities of our new understanding of urban ecology; moreover they support interaction between heterogeneous systems, such as social, infrastructural, architectural and environmental ones; they allow us to sense, register and manipulate in our daily life the unfolding processes defining our cities, our houses and our artificial environments.

ecoMachines turns us all into ecologists in the most operational sense of the term.

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