What is to become of the word in a post apocalyptic world riddled with radiation? Hardly something we want to think about. However in a recent OOE Workshop, where the norms are pushed and radical ideas are foster, a group of students visualize a space in which urban development is regenerated through an almost bionic/machine/organic structure. The projects exploration through computational programming, to digital design, and physical exploration tell a visually dynamic and rich story. Check it out after the jump!
STUDENTS: Marvin Bratke, Jakub Grochulski, Stefanie Pesel, Mikolaj Scibisz, Christian Tschersich
SCHOOL: MMLAB | Sint Lucas School of Architecture
PROFESSORS: Corneel Cannaerts, Gilles Retsin, Isaie Bloch
COURSE: Workshop Object Oriented Eclecticism
YEAR: 2012
“Apocalypse most likely a tiny bit later than now.
In a post-nuclear future, when the earth is riddled with radiation, a new urban developer proposes to regenerate the cities back into civilisation. [radio;nuclide] was implanted within a highly hostile space in an abandoned area near Baikonur, Kazakhstan . Part fungi, part mollusc, part machine it intends to soak up the radiation and remove it from the irradiated cities, unifying with them them in the process.
OOE Workshop Ghent:
In contrast to contemporary thought and design, which views things as the aggregation or assembly of smaller bits and parts, in OOD new objects emerge out of an ecology of interaction of multiple and heterogeneous objects. Through a process of formation or computation, highly differentiated, contradictory concepts and structures can become one object, without resulting in an incongruous collage.”
Workshop Brief:
“The workshop introduced an unorthodox, hands-on workflow based on the concept of Object-Orientated Design. OOD is a new paradigm in contemporary philosophy, physics, computer programming and critical theory and can be understood as the process of planning a system of interacting objects for the purpose of solving a specific problem. In contrast to contemporary thought and design, which views things as the aggregation or assembly of smaller bits and parts, in OOD new objects emerge out of an ecology of interaction of multiple and heterogeneous objects. Through a process of formation or computation, highly differentiated, contradictory concepts and structures can become one object, without resulting in an incongruous collage.”
– introspector.be/workshop-object-oriented-eclecticism
Additional credits and links:
http://introspector.be/workshop-object-oriented-eclecticism/
http://eragatory.blogspot.be/
http://www.mmblog.be/mmlab/
http://introspector.be/
All Images and Text via: gallery.thecreatorsproject.com/gallery/Radio-Nuclide