5 Rumors + 1 Vision (June25, 2013 @ NCTU)
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5 RUMORS+ 1 VISION
of cities
for design
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RUMOR 1:URBAN DESIGN IS DEAD (?)
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URBAN DESIGN Est. 1960
Architecture
Urban Planning
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Urban RenewalUrban SprawlZoning
Garden City
New Pattern
New Urbanism
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URBAN DESIGN Est. 1960
Architecture
Urban Planning
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" Urban Design has reached a dead end...While the task grows in urgency and com-plexity, the disciplinary main-streaming of urban design has transformed it from potentially broad and hopeful conceptual category into aincreasingly rig-id, restrictive, and boring set of orthodoxies." -- Michale Sorkin, <The Ends of Ur-ban Design>, Urban Design
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URBAN DESIGN UNDERSTANDING
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URBAN DESIGN UNDERSTANDING
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RUMOR II:LANDSCAPE URBANISMSAVES THE WORLD(?)
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Charles Waldheim
LANDSCAPEsaves the world!
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Charles Waldheim
LANDSCAPEsaves the world!
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Mohsen MostafaviCharles Waldheim
LANDSCAPEsaves the world! ECOLOGICAL
URBANISMsaves the world!
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Mohsen MostafaviCharles Waldheim
LANDSCAPEsaves the world! ECOLOGICAL
URBANISMsaves the world!
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Mohsen Mostafavi Pierre BelangerCharles Waldheim
LANDSCAPEsaves the world! ECOLOGICAL
URBANISMsaves the world!
INFRASTRUCTURE
saves the world!
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Mohsen Mostafavi Pierre BelangerCharles Waldheim
LANDSCAPEsaves the world! ECOLOGICAL
URBANISMsaves the world!
INFRASTRUCTURE
saves the world!
Landscape As
Infrastructure
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URBANISM
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URBANISM
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We don’t have tosave the world!
What if we simply declare that there is no crisis-redefine our relationship with the city not as its makers but as its mere subjects, as its supporters? More than ever, the city is all we have.What Ever Happened to Urbanism-S,M,L,XLRem Koolhaas
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RUMOR III:GENERIC CITY(?)
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“Now we are left with a world without ur-banism, only architecture, ever more ar-chitecture. The neatness of architecture is its seduction; it defines, excludes, lim-its, seperates from the “rest”-but it also consumes....”
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Generic City is about SAMENESS
Cities with no history, no culture, no Difference.
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GENERIC
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GENERIC = DIVERSITY
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“Together, all these breaks - with scales,with architectural composition, with tradition, with transparency, with ethics-imply the final, most radical break: Bigness is no longer part of any urban tissue.It exists; at most, it coexists.Its subtext is FUCK context.”Bigness, S,M,L,XL
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RUMOR IV:FUCK CONTEXT(?)
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Tim Stonor andSPACE SYNTAX
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FUCK CONTEXT
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FUCK CONTEXT
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RUMOR V:A PHYSIST SOLVES CITIES(?)
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Geoffrey West
“ Give me the SIZE of a city, any city in the world. You name it!I can tell you almost EVERYTHING about the city, even I’ve never been there...”
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URBANISM?
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'SCIENTIFIC' URBANISM (?)
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ONE VISIONFOR DESIGN(ER)
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" So when we talk about design today, and par-ticularly when we read about it in the popular press, we're often talking about products like these. Amusing? Yes. Desirable? Maybe. Impor-tant? Not so very. But this wasn't always the way. And I'd like to suggest that if we take a different view of design, and focus less on the object and more on design thinking as an ap-proach, that we actually might see the result in a bigger impact. " ---Tim Brown, IDEO
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INNOVATIVE THINKING
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ARCHITECT?
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"Maybe, architecture doesn't have to be stu-pid after all. Liberated from the obligation to construct, it can become a way of thinking about anything - a discipline that represents relationships, proportions, connections, effects, the diagram of everything." ---Rem Koolhaas 2004, OMA
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SYSTEMS THINKING
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REAL INNOVATION ARISES FROM UNDERSTANDING OF REALITY
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ONE VISION:CROSS-DISCIPLINARY,
TRUE IMPACT
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5 RUMORS+ 1 VISION
of cities
for design