Claudio Rossi and Daniela Atencio : Bio_Lent
Join us Tuesday, September 23rd at 2:00 PM for an insightful afternoon as FIU Architecture Professors Claudio Rossi and Daniela Atencio present BIO_LENT Machines.
About The Lecture
The lecture focuses on the contemporary Latin American landscape’s complexity as a platform for testing, exploring, and reorienting certain definitions. We are interested in the landscape as the sum of complex systems: economy, culture, society, nature, and particularly as the spatialization of time.
Violence must be understood as the action on these systems—whether from urbanization, inequality, pollution, mining, self-extraction actions, self-construction processes, the presence of armed gangs, smuggling, among many others—or the effect of planetary-scale processes such as global warming, sea-level rise, the greenhouse effect, erosion, droughts, among others.
On the other hand, we are also interested in the action or collision between architecture, infrastructures, and landscape, understood as a possible space of restitution for the places where it operates and as wonderful reparation opportunities for some of the violent processes mentioned. For this reason, collisions as opportunities to unfold life have been the support of our design explorations.
Bio_lent Machines are the conjunction of restorative and restitutive strategies for the context, but also pedagogical processes that promote the use of technology to address the complexity of the present and future reality where they operate. We will talk about the use of the robotic arm as a tool and a medium in the creative processes of the Bio_lent architectural artifacts—or, as we usually refer to this work process: Machines that build machines.
We substitute the violence of the mentioned processes with an approach that involves time, technology, and nature as mediators. We explore architecture as machines or devices that attend to reverting this condition. We design mechanisms to revert, recompose, and establish new relationships in the Latin American landscape.
This lecture presents an open conversation that unfolds a series of design mechanisms at different scales, technological workflows, representation processes, and conceptual positions that invite, from our practice, transdisciplinary, diverse, and plural open considerations for architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, or urban planning students.
We replace violent processes with Bio_lent Machines.
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