I am smart but my brain is run in California… Conventional ideas of the future are usually located in sterile, white rooms, highly optimized in terms of energy and ecology. Invisible, silent, remote-controlled. Has the future always been quiet? What structures, aesthetic parameters and control mechanisms underlie these scenarios? Is there a need for new forms of creative expression in architecture or are we surrendering to technology because we cannot design what we cannot see?
The international and performative symposium “Android Paranoid – architecture, invisibility and digital culture” takes a journey through current future scenarios in lectures, performances and film screenings and discusses the ambiguous influence of digitalization on architecture and our cities, the power of big data as well as smart cities and their vulnerability. Baumeister is a media partner.
The event will take place on February 24 at the Alte Kongresshalle Munich from 6:30 pm to 2:00 pm, admission is free.
With: Kristoffer Gansing, Director transmediale, Berlin – Florian Rötzer, journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine Telepolis, Munich – Daniel van der Velden, Metahaven, Design and Research studio, Amsterdam – Dr. Jan Willmann, Gramazio Kohler Architekten, ETH Zurich – Liam Young, architect, speculative thinker, Princeton, AA, London and Vanessa Miriam Carlow, architect, COBE Berlin
Music by David Letellier, Berlin. Film screenings by the Russian artist Andrey Yagubsky, Moscow. Curated and moderated by Nadin Heinich, plan A.
More information is available at www.we-are-plan-a.com
As part of the Munich Creative Business Week MCBW 2015. cooperation partners: bayern design, BDA Bayern, Goethe Institut, media partner: Baumeister, Supported by: FSB, Gira, Graphisoft, Miele, Vitra & Koton, Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology