Yesterday students from The Bartlett School of Architecture gathered at the current exhibition at The Gallery at Foyles, ‘_The City As Biological Computer‘, to kick off the Bio-Computational Symposium organised by Claudia Pasquero, Emmanouil Zaroukas and Filippo Nassetti from The Bartlett’s Urban Morphogenesis Lab. The Symposium offered a platform for presentation, discussion and theoretical reflection upon the link between human and non-human intelligences, architecture, and urban design.
Futurecity Curator Chloe Stagaman has worked with ecoLogicStudio, an architectural and urban design practice specialised in environmental design, urban self-sufficiency and building integrated nature, to create an exhibition showcasing five visionary projects and proposals by ecoLogicStudio and their academic partners, in which architecture, technology and nature are parallel and complementary systems.
“At Futurecity, our work delivering cultural strategies and art projects allows us to continuously rediscover what is possible and powerful in the public realm. We felt that the work of ecoLogicStudio was both timely and provocative in its envisaging of an urban environment enhanced and sustained by converging technological, rural and built systems.” – Chloe Stagaman
“The writings of architectural historians, philosophers, scientists and cyberneticians, such as Félix Guattari, Gilles Clement, Slavoj Žižek, Gregory Bateson and Gordon Pask, inspire our practice at ecoLogicStudio every day. It is rewarding to see our work playfully displayed in a space that is public yet integrated into the happenings of a bookstore – especially one that is committed to readership and discovery at the centre of London.” – Claudia Pasquero
After The Bartlett students presented their projects at Foyles, the Symposium continued at University College London, with speakers Claudia Pasquero, Rachel Armstrong, Timothy Ireland, Liss C. Werner, and Emmanouil Zaroukas.
Visit exhibition “_The City as Biological Computer”
Dates: 26th November 2019 – 10th January 2020
Address: The Gallery at Foyles, Foyles Bookstore, 5th Floor, 107 Charing Cross Rd, London, WC2H 0EB
Opening times: Monday to Saturday 9am to 9pm; Sunday 11.30am – 6.00pm
Entry: free
Website: www.galleryatfoyles.com