JDS Architects can be found at the “Mapping Contemporary Venice” event as part of the Detour project, now in Venice for the 12th International Architecture Exhibition.

The exhibition runs from August 26 to September 20, 2010, from 10 am to 5 pm at the Venice International University, Island of San Servolo, Venice.

Detour is a small piece of the Moleskine journey, where interlacing stories merge. Curated by Raffaella Guidobono, this travelling group show features notebook creations by internationally recognized artists, architects, film directors, graphic designers, illustrators, and writers. Some works contain extensive stories; others are turned into pieces of contemporary art and design.

More information can be found here.

JDS Architects have been invited to participated in the City 2.0 Exhibition to be held on the 18th September to the 24th of October in Tokyo at the EYRE of GYRE building. The exhibition will show different design proposals on how we, through informational technologies, can draw the future cities.

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JDS建築師事務所創辦人Julien De Smedt先生台北新書發表酒會及講座

Thursday, July 1, 2010 民國九十九年七月一日星期四
18:00 – Doors Open 開放入場
19:00 – Lecture by Julien De Smedt  先生演講
20:00 – Book Launch 新書發表酒會
Invited Professor: Aleppo Liu 特別邀請 劉育東教授 及
Honorary Guest: Tony Lu 捷年集團總裁呂台年先生

NETFILMMAKERS, online gallery for NetArt and NetVideo, presents PRIVATE BITS, an exhibition focusing on data visualization. The curator is Carl Emil Carlsen who works with interactive audiovisual systems as a designer, artist and teacher.

PRIVATE BITS:

The data cloud is growing at higher rates everyday. It can be regarded as a new kind of shared long term memory for humanity, relying on networked databases hidden in cooled basements. We strap on digital goggles in the shape of search engines and pick out particles of interest from the cloud. Fascinated by the new possibilities we tend to forget that the goggles we wear only provide a narrow angle of view and in effect function like horse blinds. Behind us sits the coachman in the shape of corporate directors, pulling our heads in the direction of the highest bidder – or in best case, in the direction it is assumed we want to look.

In order to get our own perspective on the data cloud, we must acquire the skill to construct digital optics. This skill is called data visualization and it can be used to crystallize areas of the cloud into concrete form, visible to the eye.

With the theme Private Bits the artists of this season at netfilmmakers are asked to explore themselves through data visualization. Instead of trying to construct a “macroscope” to grasp the totality of the cloud, they will build microscopes and zoom in on the patterns in their own lives. Through free experimentation with personal data they will hopefully make findings that illuminate otherwise invisible habits. What findings they choose to share and how they chose to present them is completely up to them.

The invited artists are Field (Marcus Wendt & Vera-Maria Glahn) from Germany, Tim Knapen from Belgium and Peter Koraca from Slovenia, who all work in the borderline between art and interaction design.

(text by Carl Emil Carlsen)

PRIVATE BITS – personal data exposed
Netfilmmakers 20.th edition
LAUNCH AND ARTIST TALKS
Vera-Maria Glahn & Marcus Wendt/Field (DE)
Tim Knapen (BE)
Peter Koraca (SI)

17:00-20:00
Thursday 13.th of May 2010
The Mezzanin Space
Charlottenborg
Nyhavn 2, Copenhagen K
http://kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/mezzanin

http://www.netfilmmakers.dk
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The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design have organized a fun and provocative exhibition to celebrate food and design entitled:

DELICIOUS ARCHITECTURE

The exhibition opens at Contemporary Space Athens (46-48 Megalou Vasilious in Rouf/Athens) May 12 and continues through August 1, 2010.
The Athens opening reception takes place on Wednesday, May 12 from 8:00-10:00 PM.

The exhibition premiered at the Fondazione Riccardo Catella in Milan and toured throughout Europe.

DELICIOUS ARCHITECTURE explores the historic relationship between food and design and ultimately its final presentation. The proposed creations range from extraordinary and futuristic towers, pyramids, spires, temples, obelisks, sculpture, even skyscrapers that celebrate the fun in today’s contemporary architecture—using food and cooking as the source of their inspiration.

DELICIOUS ARCHITECTURE is curated by Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine the prominent Finnish architecture and design journalist and critic and Museum President, The Chicago Athenaeum.  Both The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre have invited over 50 of the world’s most prominent architects and designers to create a work of architecture that explores artistic decorations and monuments made of food primarily cakes and confectionery fantasies.

From the 29th of April 2010. The main exhibition ’10+ Design Forecast’ takes stock of Danish design in the first ten years of the new millennium and examines which design trends have a big role to play in the years to come.

JDS + Muuto will showcase their spectacular shelving system, Stacked.

Time and place
28th of April 2010 – 31st of October 2010
Dansk Design Center
H.C. Andersens Boulevard 27
1553 København V

At the beginning of a new millennium, it is natural to take stock and examine the trends that characterise the present and those that will come to characterise the future. ‘10+ Design Forecast’ takes stock of Danish design in the first ten years of the new millennium and examines which design trends define our time and which will have a big role to play in the years to come. The exhibition examines ten examples from design history from the aughts until today. Together, they draw a picture of Danish design in the 21st century and offer a glimpse of design trends that will be important in the future.

The framework and form of the exhibition are based on the number 10 and the plus sign, which are recurring features throughout the exhibition. The number 10 refers to the first ten years of this millennium and the ten examples highlighted in the exhibition. The plus sign refers to the added value that design can contribute. From different angles, the ten examples explore today’s design competence.

The team formed by JDS and Secchi/Viganò is happy to announce that it will exhibit its project for the Urban Design Competition for the EU district in Brussels. The “Projet Urbain Loi” features the 5 projects that were presented for the international competition launched in 2008. Together with JDS the exhibition collect the work of OMA/NFA, Xavier De Geyter, Fletcher and Priest and the Atelier Christian De Potzamparc. READ MORE »

TOKYO BOOK LAUNCH AND LECTURE
Julien De Smedt to lectures at INAX Ginza, Tokyo for Agenda Book
Launch, Wednesday, March 31, 2010
INAX Ginza 3-6-18 Kyoubashi
Chuou-ku, Tokyo 104-0031
18:00 – Doors open
18:30 – Lecture
20:00-21:00 – Book launch reception
admission: 500 Yen

KYOTO BOOK LAUNCH, LECTURE AND EXHIBITION
Julien De Smedt will lecture at Sfera, Kyoto for Agendibition; a
presentation in a spatial format of our recent book, Agenda.
Opening Friday, April 2, 2010.

The exhibition will be from the 2nd April – 9th May.
SferaExhibition 17 Benzaiten-cho,
Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto 605-0086
17:30 – Doors open
18:00 – Lecture Symposium “Case of Dezain 10: Julien De Smedt x Eizo Okada”
19:30 – Book launch reception
admission: 500 Yen

JDS Architects exhibition at Sfera: AGENDIBITION
Gallery Hours 11:00 – 20:00
Closed Wednesday
Exhibition admission: free

Agendibition is an exhibition of architecture through the expansion of a book, turning a narrative into a space. Presented as a spatial experience, the book is laid out so that the entire contents can be seen all at once on the gallery walls. The pages are supplemented by physical models and images on display in the center of the gallery space. Agenda started as an architecture book, occupying the territory between a monograph, a diary, and a collection of essays, interviews, and conversations. It documents the work and thinking of JDS Architects over a specific year marked by crisis, beginning on September 15th, 2008, the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.

Rather than a definitive direction, our agenda is a definitive attitude – of eagerness, enthusiasm, and optimism, of criticality and concern, of fun and inquiry. It is a directive, a motivation to act, at times without clear knowledge of where our agenda will lead. The task of Agenda is to explore what kind of change will be needed if architects are to assume a political and social agency in this new landscape.

Bringing together diverse forms of content, Agenda is a product of vigilant observation, introspection, and engagement with outside thinkers and collaborators – artists, curators, politicians, authors, economists, journalists, developers, educators, and architects. The final result, on display at Sfera, is the book as it has never been seen before.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND THE LECTURES, PLEASE RSVP, INCLUDING THE NAMES OF THOSE YOU WOULD LIKE TO BRING:

for TOKYO lecture: lectures [at] jdsa.be

for KYOTO lecture: exhibition [at] ricordi-sfera.com