Saturday 19 March 2011

HARVARD GSD 23rd MARCH: CITIES, MODELS AND SYSTEMIC UTOPIAS

Karst site definition, Arnavutkoy, Istanbul. Jung Hyun Woo, Relational Urbanism Research Trajectory, Berlage Institute, Rotterdam

Eduardo Rico will be giving a lecture in GSD Harvard as part of the week long workshop that Enriqueta Llabres and him will be teaching within the Landscape Architecture Programme directed by Chris Reed.

The lecture describes the practices of Relational Urbanism, where concepts linked to the cybernetics and system theory form the basis of a renewed critical perspective framing associative and digital techniques; moving beyond the false promises of the parameter and the performative design. The turf which Relational Urbanism claims as its own is that of envisaging new regimes of urbanism which derive their raison d’etre from a spatial design rooted in the material and temporal specificities of the territory and where the metabolic nature of the environment is critically balanced with concepts of social and environmental justice, in short, a laboratory for a new critical territorialism.

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youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-OocuYhclQ&NR=1