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Urban Symposium 2012
From TTU College of Architecture
TOPOLOGICAL URBANISM
- [PARTICIPANTS]
- John HOAL, panelist
- of H3 STUDIO + Washington University in St. Louis
- Lars LERUP, panelist
- Albert K. and Harry K. Smith Professor of Rice University
- Peter ZELLNER, panelist
- of ZELLNERPLUS + Future Initiatives Program at SCI-Arc
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- Jeffrey S NESBIT, organizer + moderator
- of HACCEITAS STUDIO + College of Architecture Texas Tech University
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- [WHEN] Saturday March 24th, 2012; 9.30a - 1.00p
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- [WHERE] COA First Floor Gallery
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- [TOPIC BRIEF] 'Topological thinking’ is a term used by Manual de Landa as a way to describe and interpret an understanding of differential geometry. Though, for de Landa, this mathematical theory is used to investigate how our environments evolve through intensive differences when revealing rates of change within urban data. These differences may occur on multiple levels such as the emergence of local strategies within urban constructs. In ‘Field Conditions’ Stan Allen describes object to field systemic responses by evaluating how functions differ as you progress from a part-to-whole or part-to-part parameters. Allen explains that a point within a network is not an independent entity nor is the relationship about the ‘global’ rule sets for systems to operate as a ‘whole’. The investigation reveals that controlling the clarity of ‘local’, part-to-part, interactions generates a more intense and flexible result. For urbanism, this logic provides opportunities to analyze and synthesize intensive phase transitions through the identification of local interactions within infrastructure, urban fabric,and data extraction.
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- What are the ways that we can organize our analytical evaluations of city development so that we can more successfully create an urban landscape that has the ability to generate ephemeral, or even oscillating tissues from various scales and simultaneously constructing an inter-connected urban fabric? This symposium will explore how researchers and practitioners define new explorations, manage interpretations, and offer new implementations for our built environments through an understanding of these informational intensities of ‘local’ to ‘local’ interactions.
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