Michael Schellenberger is a researcher, writer and co-founder of Breakthrough Institute, a California-based think tank and pioneering research institute. In this talk, he explains why he thinks it is necessary to change how we think about energy and the environment. Through his Eco-Modernist manifesto, he elaborates the idea of a Modernism that would allow everyone to democratically enjoy a right to prosperity while respecting nature. He refuses the authority of urban planning and dogmatism, and praises for concertation and compromise.
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In this round-table discussion, the four researchers look at the issue of transition through the prism of the different notions of maintenance, transformation, repair and restoration. These concepts are reminiscent of the issues of destruction, reconstruction and rehabilitation in architecture.
Les sous sols français comptent environ 910 000 km de canalisations de distribution d’eau potable, et plus d’1,4 millions de km de lignes électriques. Indispensables dans nos vies quotidiennes, ils sont pourtant invisibilisés et de plus en plus questionnés à l’aune d’enjeux écologiques et technologiques qui poussent nos territoires à se transformer. Mais ces infrastructures ne peuvent-elles pas être perçues comme un patrimoine qu’il s’agit d’entretenir et dont il faut prendre soin ?
Aesthetic of Structures is a collective work published by the Architects-Engineers & Engineers-Architects association (AAIIA). Established agencies, young practitioners, researchers and students discuss a new relationship with structures, moving away from the Vitruvian principles of utility, solidity and beauty, towards an economy of materials, reversibility of use and the reuse of materials. Here we meet two of the book’s designers: architect-engineer Antoine Laugier and graphic designer Thanh-Phong Lê, who give us an insight into the book, as an object and as a structure.
Justine Emard is a visual artist. Her installations use AI to understand the living, exploring the boundaries between organic life and artificial intelligence. Bee swarms, encephalographic recordings and prehistoric paintings become learning supports for algorithms that, contrary to dystopian imaginations, generate new supra-hyper-organisms.
AI is a new form of intelligence whose development is stirring up concerns and dystopian fables. Far from replacing human intelligence, AIs are emerging as new tools to be trained, controlled and shaped to achieve the desired result. For the artist, photographer, architect, film-maker, musician or illustrator, AIs become an agent with which to collaborate, resulting in co-creation. Inaugural lecture of the “AI and Creation” series at the Stream Innovation Center.
Discover the inaugural lecture of the “Alma Matter” series! In a world where the myth of abundance is collapsing, this series of lectures looks at what matter really has to offer. Actors, professions, economies, temporalities, geopolitics: how do contemporary issues of creation take shape through those of matter? Each talk focuses on a particular material, and brings together its stakeholders in a dialogue. The use of stone in construction declined during the twentieth century. Today, its return is acclaimed for its qualities: inertia, durability, low-emission processing, local presence… but what techniques and applications will be used in 2024? As part of the City Metabolism Chair supported by the Université Paris Sciences & Lettres.