Post Parametric 1: Data, a debate in Columbia University
In the post-parametric era, one key challenge for architectural design is the acquisition, processing, and integration of data. Designers already have an enormous amount of computable data from building simulations, physical sensing, geometric form, construction techniques, cost and location of materials—and the mountain of numbers shows every sign of rapid expansion.
This debate will explore what might be done with all of this data, and more broadly, how we might be designing architecture ten years from now. Post Parametric 1 is the first in a series of discussions that aim to question, broaden, and re-frame the way we think about computation and design.
The debate will take place tomorrow Monday at 6:30 PM, in the Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, Columbia Unviersity. For more information, visit the official website.
This is so cool. We need this sort of tool to be widespread, not only in the hands of the “Architectural and Development Elite” but everyone involved in architecture and design.
Is there a recording of the debate or anything?
I am a free thinking individual with rational capacity to make decisions, and I even find fun in this process. Why do we seem to need to subordinate our responsibilities as designers to an external force that doesn’t think so much as it computes? I like the sentiment very much of pairing parametrics with empiricism but I am terrified by the systemic risk involved.
especially when you ask ‘why?’ to the average/nearly all Libskind/Hadid delusionist.
7:25 PM Sep 28th
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