Automation Landscapes make me *****

Orestis Nikolaidis

I am interested in the spaces that the human desperately needs to fulfil the expectations we have of the modern city but nevertheless doesn't see or know how they function. Automated landscapes are shaping the countryside and we don't know anything about them. (cover picture...

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From Exceptions to Region in Pearl River Delta - Part III

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(10) Conversations | Architecture Talk | Automated Landscapes: Architectures of Work without Workers - YouTube

Conversations | Architecture Talk | Automated Landscapes: Architectures of Work without Workers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCyDbQtNtN4 Art Basel 311 visualizaciones visualizaciones Publicado el 31 mar. 2018 DescriptionThe incursion of artificial intelligence and automation into productive landscapes has come to be seen as the trigger for major shifts in labor ethos and conditions. Under the premise that automation also influences the design and occupation of the built environment, this p...

MEDIUM DESIGN

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MEDIUM DESIGN

MEDIUM DESIGNby Keller EasterlingShare Facebook Twitter Vkontakte Odnoklassniki Tumblr Google+ Pinterest Surfingbird EmailPrivileging declarations, right answers, proofs, and universals, culture is often banging away with the same blunt tools that are completely inadequate to address contemporary chemistries of power. On the flip side of these logics, Medium Design offers no dramatic manifestos where things are new or right. Instead it only rehearses a habit of mind that has been eclipsed. Ev...

How to persuade a robot that you should get the job

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