Date: 17/11/2014
Time: 18:00:00
Venue: Lecture Hall
UniversalAssemblyUnit produces projects that focus on the topics of space and digital storytelling in an age of multi-platformed, hyperlinked experiences. The label "space animation" aims to communicate visual content in the form of digitally augmented physical spaces. Their talk will focus on the reasons behind setting up their own practice and their trajectory from architectural education to working in digital arts and production.
UniversalAssemblyUnit was formed by AA graduates Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu (AADipl2011), Samantha Lee (AADipl2012), William Gowland (AADipl2013) and Zhan Wang (AADipl2014). Together they explore projects at the nexus of technology, arts and spatial practice. Recent projects have included live visuals and stage production at the Royal Festival Hall and Barbican Theatre, a series of 3d scanned fashion editorials for Tank Magazine, and web based projects that explore interactive digital landscapes.
Date: 25/11/2014
Time: 18:00:00
Venue: Lecture hall
The 20th century taught us that utopian thinking can have precarious consequences, wagering the fate of mankind on the uncertain outcome of grand intellectual speculations. But, if the course of history is dialectic, what follows? Does the 21stcentury mark the absence of utopias? Isn’t that equally dangerous, if not more?
What are the risks of realism? What ensues in the wake of an almost universal realization that what is good and what works are not necessarily the same? What are the dangers of a world that embraces a definitive divorce between what is just and what is effective?
Reinier de Graaf is a partner of OMA. He directs the work of AMO, the research and design studio established as a counterpart to OMA’s architectural practice. De Graaf has taught research studios at Strelka, The Berlage Institute, and is currently a Visiting Critic at PennDesign, the graduate program at the University of Pennsylvania.
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