Lecture3 the ballast of materiality

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Architecture in the Information Age 3: “Loosing the Ballast of Materiality” Dr Martyn Dade-Robertson

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Lecture given as part of Newcastle University's module Architecture in the Information Age.

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  • 1. Architecture in the Information Age3: Loosing the Ballast of MaterialityDr Martyn Dade-Robertson

2. Introductory Lecture Lecture 1 Origins Lecture 2 OriginsLecture 3 Loosing the Ballast of MaterialityLecture 4 Cyberspace Lecture 5 Augmented SpaceLecture 6 Sentient Space Lecture 7 Programming Architecture 3. Blog 4. 9887 776 6 665 5 554 4 4 4 4 443 3 3 3 3 3 3 332 2 221 1 1 1 1 110 0 0 0 0 00Number of PostsNumber of Comments 5. 9887 776 6 665 5 554 4 4 4 4 443 3 3 3 3 3 3 332 2 221 1 1 1 1 110 0 0 0 0 00Number of PostsNumber of Comments 6. 9887 776 6 665 5 554 4 4 4 4 443 3 3 3 3 3 3 332 2 221 1 1 1 1 110 0 0 0 0 00Number of PostsNumber of Comments 7. 9887 776 6 665 5 554 4 4 4 4 443 3 3 3 3 3 3 332 2 221 1 1 1 1 110 0 0 0 0 00Number of PostsNumber of Comments 8. Last Week:204 Unique Visitors499 Visits2,907 Page Views30 Countries 9. Last Week:This Week:204 Unique Visitors 353499 Visits7992,907 Page Views3,76830 Countries46 10. 96 Views94 Views Most Visited Philip Morris John Beattie 11. Carolina FigueroaPost of the Week (63 visits) 12. Recap 13. Linguistic SystemArchitectonic System 14. Architectonic System 15. Architectonic SystemFormSpace Function 16. Architectonic SystemSpace 17. Space 18. Morphological: ?SpaceVisual: ?Perceptual: ?Social: ?Functional: ?Temporal: ? Homework 19. Blog 20. World One, he (Popper) identified with the objective world of material, natural thingsand their physical properties-with their energy, and weight and motion and rest; Benedikt, M. Cyberspace First Steps (MIT 1992) 21. World Two he identified with the subjective world of consciousness withintentions, calculations, feelings, thoughts, dreams, memories, and so on, inindividual minds.Benedikt, M.Cyberspace FirstSteps (MIT 1992) 22. World Three, he said, is the world of objects, real public structures which arenot-necessarily-intentional products of the minds of living creatures interacting witheach other and with World 1.[Benedikt1991: 4]Benedikt, M.Cyberspace FirstSteps (MIT 1992) 23. temples, cathedrals, marketplaces, courts, libraries, theatres oramphitheatres, letters, book pages, movie reels, video tapes, CDs, newspapers, hard Benedikt, M. Cyberspace Firstdisks, performance, art showsare allSteps (MIT 1992)physical manifestations-or should one say, the physical components of objects which exist more wholly in World Threepatterns ofinformation. [Benedikt 1991: 4] 24. + 25. + = 26. The road to Cyberspace 27. The road to Cyberspace 28. 500 BCSimonides 29. 500 BCSimonides Scopas 30. 500 BCSimonides Scopas 31. 500 BCCastor and PolluxSimonidesScopas 32. 500 BCCastor and PolluxSimonidesScopas 33. 500 BCCastor and PolluxSimonidesScopas 34. 500 BCCastor and PolluxSimonidesScopas 35. 500 BCSimonides Scopas 36. 500 BCYates, F. A., The Artof Memory (London:Pimlico, 2001)Simonides 37. 80 BCCicero M. T., Ciceroon the Orator(London:LOEB, 1948) 38. Sorabji, J., AristotleAristotles application of the word topos toon Memory (London:Gerald Duckworth & general patterns of argument is the source ofCompany, 1972)the name of this treatise, The Topics. And this use of the word, along with the related use inrhetoric, is the source of the Englishexpression topic and commonplace. If theabove suggestions are correct, these wordswill have come via Aristotle ultimately from thesystem of place memory.Aristotle, Topics[Sorabji 1972: 32](NuVision, 2005) 39. The Method of Loci 40. The Method of Loci Modularity Discipline: Neuroscience 41. 1500 ADGiulio Camillo 42. 1500 AD The Theatre of Memory 43. He pretends that all things that the human Yates, F. A., The Art mind can conceive and which we cannot see of Memory (London: Pimlico, 2001) with the corporeal eye, after being collectedtogether by diligent meditation, may beexpressed by certain corporeal signs in such a way that the beholder may at once perceive with his eyes everything which is otherwise hidden in the depths of the human mind. [Yates quoting Salvarolo 2001: 137] 44. The art of memory was, through thedevelopment of the 16th century Lullist Rossi, P., Logic and tradition, also a memorative logic, based onthe Art of Memory (London:the belief that the placing of things had an Athlone, 2000) inexorable association to the logical ordering of knowledge, in the perfectcorrespondence between words . and things, between logic and ontology [Rossi 2000: 61]. Though the art of memoryhas been lost, relegated to the status of anintellectual fossil [Rossi 2000: xxi], thedrive towards a universal language with which to represent knowledge has persisted, first through Aristotle and later through Leibniz. 45. Ars Combinatoria 46. Ars Combinatoria 47. Ars CombinatoriaLogic 48. Ars CombinatoriaLogicArchitecture 49. 1800sIt is usually found that one and the same truthmay be put in different places according to theterms it contains, and also according to the mediate terms or causes upon which itLeibniz, G. W. NewEssays Concerningdepends and according to the inferences and HumanUnderstanding (New results it may have. A simple categoricYork:proposition has only two terms; but a Macmillan, 1896)hypothetic proposition may have four, not to speak of complex statements.[Leibniz 1896: 623] 50. 1900s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSyfZkVgasIPaul Otlet 51. 1950s 52. 1950s 53. When data of any sort are placed in storage, they are filed alphabetically or Wardrip-Fruin, N. and N. Montfort (eds), The numerically and information is found (when it New Media Reader (Cambridge Mass:is) by tracing it down from subclass toMIT Press, 2003)subclass, it can only appear in oneplaceThe human mind does not work in thatway. It operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next thatis suggested by the association of thoughts, inaccordance with some intricate web of trailscarried by the cells of the brain. [Bush 1945: 105] 54. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c539cK58ees 55. 1960shttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNXLK78ZaFo Douglas Engelbart 56. 1990s[Information organised] as a network in which nodes are text chunks (e.g. lists ofitems, paragraphs, pages) and links arerelationships between nodes (e.g semanticBerners- Lee, T., Weavingassociations, expansions, definitions, example the Web: The Past, Present and Future of the Worlds). Wide Web by its Inventor (New York: Texere, 2000)[Rouet et al 1996: 3] 57. The Webs type of chunk style hypertext static links that allow the user to jump from page to page-has been around for decades and has been criticised for just as long. ForNelson, chunk style hypertext is just onesubtype of hypertext, a term he introduced to mean a body of written or pictorial materialinterconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented orrepresented on paper. The hyper inNelsons neologism does not mean link butrather connotes extension and generality: cf. hyperspace. [Wardrip-Fruin and Monfort. 2003: 301] 58. Homework 59. Reading: Read and post about Architecture and Cyberspace.