This document discusses architects moving away from traditional building design towards network thinking and designing spaces to encourage emergent phenomena. It provides examples of communities of creatives occupying abandoned spaces in innovative ways. The document argues that designing with only a few simple rules can lead to surprising complexity through massive interaction and emergence.

1. SPACE
EMERGENC [ E ] [ Y ]
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2. PHOTO : Macao, Milano
facebook.com/macaopagina
SPACE
EMERGENC [ E ] [ Y ]
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3. A GROWING COMMUNITY OF ARCHITECTS
NOT INTERESTED IN BUILDINGS
WHY?
PHOTO : Christoffer Horsfjord Nilsen, Ecosistema Urbano
PROJECT: dreamhamar, network design process in Norway
WEB: dreamhamar.org

4. "An obvious fact: architecture is not building. Buildings are objects and
the act of building leads to such objects, but architecture is something
else. It is the way we think and talk about buildings, how we represent
them, how we build them. This is architecture."
AARON BETSKY

5. PHOTO : basurama.org
PROJECT: Basurama Panorámica
ECONOMICAL CRISIS
WE HAVE TOO MANY THINGS
THERE ARE TOO MANY BUILDINGS

6. THEWORLDISFAST
BUILDING IS SLOW
PHOTO : burçak pekin - flickr.com

7. PHOTO :
www.soundplusdesign.com by Andrew Spitz is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
THE WORLD IS ADAPTIVE
BUILDING IS STATIC

8. IMAGE :
open source city by francescocingolani.cc
based on the following pictures (creative commons disclaimer)
www.flickr.com/photos/elenac/5565893086/
www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/3189169101/
NETWORK THINKING "...what is most amazing about networks is that they
completely transform the way we think about data..."
JAMES FOWLER, POLITICAL SCIENTIST
via Andrea Graziano - co-de-it.com

9. PHOTO : Heather Cowper, flickr.com
Swarm chandelier at the V & A in London by Zaha Hadid
COMPLEXITY
SIMPLE ELEMENTS INTERACTING WITH SIMPLE RULES
CAN YELD SURPRINSINGLY COMPLEX AND ELEGANT
OUTCOMES.
inspired by Andrea Graziano /// co-de-it.com

10. EMERGENCE
is the way
complex systems and patterns
arise out
of a multiplicity of
relatively simple interactions
SOURCE
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence

11. HOW IS THE
SPACE
OF THE NEXT
FUTURE?
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12. PHOTO: Daniel Dionne / flickr.com / CC BY-SA 2.0)
#spanishrevolution

13. ACAMPADA EN LA PUERTA DEL SOL
Large-scale demonstration and temporary occupation of one of
Madrid’s most representative squares on May 15, 2011.
EUROPEAN PRIZE FOR URBAN PUBLIC SPACE
Mentioned project for "Special Category"

15. We don’t need money, we don’t need new buildings. We only
need empty spaces and free time to think, meditate and create.
#UNOCCUPYBIENNALE
#UNOCCUPYBIENNALE
#UNOCCUPYBIENNALE
inspired by [ Domenico Di Siena - Aurélie de Boiss’ - Ethel Baraona Pohl - Paco González - Ecosistema Urbano - Jorge Toledo García - Alfonso
Sánchez Uzábal - Basurama Asociación - Gaëtan Kohler - Andrea Graziano
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#UNOCCUPYBIENNALE
#UNOCCUPYBIENNALE
#UNOCCUPYBIENNALE

17. PHOTO: colaborativa dot eu - flickr.com
COWORKING WORKS
PHOTO: PHOTOS:
Ian Kath - flickr.com the waving cat - flickr.com

20. CAMPO DE LA CEBADA
MADRID PHOTO
campo de cebada - flickr.com
# Urban Communication
# Urban Curators
# Architects building communities
# Architecture collectives

21. CREATIVE COHOUSING MADRID
> lagunas.in
If you are a creative and you live or you are traveling to
Madrid, you may want to go to LAGUNA

22. MACAO, ITALY
creatives occupy a tower in milan
PHOTO : Macao, Milano
facebook.com/macaopagina

23. PHOTO: facebook.com/ostellobello
ostellobello.com
Milan, Italy
a new model of hostel
a shared space for
tourists, travelers, citizens, creatives

25. "Chambre vide" [ An Empty Room ]
An exhibition by Marion Baruch

26. HOW TO DESIGN
SPACES
FOR
EMERGENCES ?
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27. PHOTO
A GROWING NUMBER
facebook.com/LeaveOnlyFootsteps
OF ABANDONED,
VACANT BUILDINGS
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"I wish this was..."
see also > candychang.com/i-wish-this-was

28. PHOTO
"Empty office" by Mark Hillary - flickr.com
DESIGNING
BLANK SPACES
TO ENCOURAGE
EMERGENT PHENOMENA

29. PLATFORM
SPACE AS A FRAMEWORK
DEVICE
PHOTO
"Unused space"
By Yuba College Public Space - flickr.com

30. ARCHITECTS :
SPACE DESIGNERS
AND/OR
SPACE CURATORS

31. ////////////////////////////
FEW SIMPLE RULES
+
MASSIVE INTERACTION
=
EMERGING INNOVATION
+
COMPLEXITY
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32. LOOKING AT EMERGENT PHENOMENA IN
THE NATURE, DON'T YOU THINK
[TRADITIONAL]
DESIGN ITSELF IS AGAINST NATURE?
PHOTO
"LIQUID FEEDBAK"
By Mario Klingemann - flickr.com

33. SPACE
EMERGENC [ E ] [ Y ]
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Special thanks to Antonio Spinelli + Giuseppe Roccasalva + Andrea Graziano [ CO-DE-IT]