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“Body Conscious - New space and form for a distributed humanity” Symposium
The National Art Center, Tokyo
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At the beginning of the 20th century, a new Science, a new Art and a new Architecture emerged from the confluence of new ideas, new technologies, and exposure to new cultures. Previous paradigms were shaken: Einstein’s relativity replaced Newton’s fixed laws with contingency, Picasso’s fragmentation overcame academic composition, new visual technologies challenged centuries of representation while the spatial and material innovations of Wright, Mackintosh, and Gropius provided a revolutionary alternative to 19th-century debates on style. Though their revolutionary potential was not always immediately recognized, such works drastically altered our 20th-century understanding of the relationship between humankind, the body and the world.
The first decade of the 21st century has seen a similar explosion of new science, new art, and new technologies. If the 20th century introduced a modern human subject as an alternative to the classically humanist one, in the 21st century we are coming to understand the distributed human subject, augmented by technologies from the nano- to the planetary scale, with agencies far broader and more complex than ever before. New social, immersive, and enhanced media have combined with ubiquitous, data-rich, and intelligent new tools to enable new ideas and design formations for this 21st century human body.
SCI-Arc once again invites architects and designers from around the Pacific Rim to Tokyo to examine the implications of the distributed human for cities, architecture and design.
Venue: 3F Auditorium, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Speakers: Yusuke Obuchi (Tokyo University), Sohei Imamura (Chiba Institute of Technology), Thomas Daniell (University of Saint Joseph), Peter Testa (SCI-Arc, TestaWieser), Peter Trummer (SCI-Arc, University of Innsbruck), Hernan Diaz Alonso (SCI-Arc, Xefirotarch), Kosuke Tsumura (Final Home)
Chie Konno (t-e-c-o), Yuima Nakazato (Yuima Nakazato LTD), John N Bohn (SCI-Arc, JBohn Associates), Toshiyuki Inoko (Team Lab), Akira Wakita (Keio SFC)
The first decade of the 21st century has seen a similar explosion of new science, new art, and new technologies. If the 20th century introduced a modern human subject as an alternative to the classically humanist one, in the 21st century we are coming to understand the distributed human subject, augmented by technologies from the nano- to the planetary scale, with agencies far broader and more complex than ever before. New social, immersive, and enhanced media have combined with ubiquitous, data-rich, and intelligent new tools to enable new ideas and design formations for this 21st century human body.
SCI-Arc once again invites architects and designers from around the Pacific Rim to Tokyo to examine the implications of the distributed human for cities, architecture and design.
Venue: 3F Auditorium, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Speakers: Yusuke Obuchi (Tokyo University), Sohei Imamura (Chiba Institute of Technology), Thomas Daniell (University of Saint Joseph), Peter Testa (SCI-Arc, TestaWieser), Peter Trummer (SCI-Arc, University of Innsbruck), Hernan Diaz Alonso (SCI-Arc, Xefirotarch), Kosuke Tsumura (Final Home)
Chie Konno (t-e-c-o), Yuima Nakazato (Yuima Nakazato LTD), John N Bohn (SCI-Arc, JBohn Associates), Toshiyuki Inoko (Team Lab), Akira Wakita (Keio SFC)
Schedule | Jul 16 (Sun) 2017-Jul 17 (Mon) 2017 Opening Hours Information
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| Website | https://sciarc.edu/events/events/2017-sci-arc-tokyo-symposium/ | ||||
| Venue | The National Art Center, Tokyo http://www.nact.jp/english/ | ||||
| Location | 7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8558 | ||||
| Access | Direct walk from exit 6 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line, 4 minute walk from exit 7 at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya or Toei Oedo line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5777-8600 |
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