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0. Crisis: The relevance of Instruments. Instruments vs tools

instrument : an object, device or mental construct for producing ideas, actions constructions and for materializing the spirit (As, 2007 Ak 1964)

for exampe a musical instrument, or a telescope

tool: a device or implement, esp. one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function and to extend phisically a person capability, an extension of the body

 
CIrcle center D

Dimeter from left B to opposite A

G magic point half of radius

G = half of radius

EF = Side of a triangle (3 sides)

CA = Side of a Square (4 sides)

AD = side of exagon (6 sides)

EG = Side of sevengon (7 sides)

AI = Side of octagon (8 sides)

PENTAGON 5 Sides!

perpendicular to diameter point C

Center compass in G

Open compass C

Find in the opposte site of center D, point H!

HC is equal of side of the pentagon

and

HA/DA golden section ratio!!

if DA = than HA is equal to 1,618 famous Φ!

applying other rules it is possible also to have

9, 10, 11 and 12 sides

DH = Side of ninegon (9 sides)

ch-ad/2=dh

LC = side od decagon (10 sides)

from AD/2 make line GC remaining LC

GH/2= side of elevangon (11 sides)

EC= side of dodecagon (12 sides)

AI = Side of Octagon (8 sides)

Leofantin Triangle

If You are really workalcholoic and you want to read more .... here is the paper "Give me a cord and ...I will build"

in pdf >> or in html format >>

1. Crisis: Find a situation

Do a 5 minutes concept presentation of the situation of crisis in which you intend to address the effort of this workshop.

Work possibly in Group

Do not imagine the imact of IT at first. Il will come later

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2. Background of the Role of IT. Follow the Lecture in Delf April 22. 2009 >>

3.

Workshop Crisis Modernity and Information Technology

Once Bruno Zevi, the great historian of Architecture, asked me:

“Saggio, what is modernity? It is 50 years that I am been working on it...”

I answered something like:

- “Well is not chronologically determined...”.

He added:

- “Saggio, modernity is what changes the crisis
into value and promotes a new aesthetic”.

Well, I thought:

- This is a bomb.

One or two years after this Cappuccino conversation (because we had it in the bar close
to his house-office), Zevi organized a conference on landscape and architecture and
invited me to intervene. During this talk, I recalled the previous dialogue and when I said
that “Modernity changes crisis into values” he stopped me and said “But this is not mine”.
(Zevi was referring to Jean Baudrillard and others thinkers on the same subject matter). This
time I answered quite smartly:

“Yes, It is not yours, but Duchamp taught us that is the choice
which is crucial. And I got through you” 1-1.

So this concept is Zevi’s, is Baudrillard’s, is mine? I think that is yours instead. This
anti-chronologically idea of Modernity has sense if it is capable of promoting your actions
and your creative thinking.

Modernity, therefore, is referred in the context of this workshop has an intellectual status of
attention towards the crisis and problems of different cultural and social situations. The
concept can be referred to Paleolithic times as well to contemporary ones and it is a very
important idea that structures actions and understanding. Modernity has the inner strength
of looking for new directions to address problems and not rely to old models in order to
face new situations that needs new efforts and ideas.

The second aspect of this workshop is addressed to the different contexts within which we
can address the world "crisis." This workshop tries to concentrate the attention to those
situations and environments for which a creative, motivated and intelligent action can be
crucial and necessary. Within this approach we clearly relates Modernity to Crisis. These
two words are for us intimately related. The third aspect of the question is the presence of
Information Technology. And here IT has a multilayered presence.

From one point of view IT is the “Crisis” of our times because we are living the historical
process of transformation from the Industrial Paradigm to an Informational one. This period
of changes creates huge problems and at the same opens immense opportunities.

On the other side, IT is not only the crisis but also a key aspect, nowadays, to provide
answers and solutions. This is clear in the presence of IT in so many aspects of human
actions. Imagine for example Physics, Medicine, Biology these days “without Information
technology”!

Lastly there is the most difficult aspect of the presence of IT in our time that is aesthetic. By
aesthetic, naturally we do not intend “pretty” but the highest, most complex and even
contradictory forms of knowledge. “Modernity is what changes the crisis into value and
promotes a new aesthetic” So, IT is at same time crisis, solution and search of a new
aesthetic. An aesthetic that is capable to reinterpret, with the contradictory and complex
tool of art, our new world.

Within this conceptual framework the students will work with professor Saggio to focus,
design and develop innovative proposals. The actual site,
software, and program will be revealed gradually in the course of the workshop.

Antonino Saggio is the founder and chief editor of the book series "IT revolution In
Architecture" that has been published In English by Birkhauser since 1999 and since 2000 in
Chinese. He has taught extensively in the United States and Europe.

This workshop is "not"
software driven, and is "not" technological concentrate but will use IT to focus on new
deign issues and innovative themes.

The design workshop will address these two fundamental questions
1. What is the conceptual relevance of IT tools
2. What innovative design ideas can we develop to focus and fully develop IT tools?
3. How can we first find and then devlop Useful and Rich of meanings design addressing real situation of crisis?

Crisis first approach

ed ecco un caso italiano

Lux

see the book >>

MAny Cases From Saggio Courses > or workshops for example Nctu > o Sicily Lab for example this book >

Bibliography

General Theoetical Book "The IT Revolution in Architecture. Thoughts on a Paradigm Shft"
http://www.lulu.com/product/a-copertina-morbida/the-it-revolution-in-architecture-thoughts-on-a-paradigm-shift/10979501

Book Series "It Revolution In Architecture" Antonino Saggio, editor
http://www.arc1.uniroma1.it/saggio/RivoluzioneInformatica/

"New Subjectivity: architecture between Communication and Information" Antonino Saggio
http://architettura.supereva.com/coffeebreak/20040718/index_en.htm

"Interactivity at the Centre of Avant-Garde Architectural Research" Antonino Saggio
http://architettura.supereva.com/coffeebreak/20050717/index_en.htm

"Space as Information"Antonino Saggio
http://www.arc1.uniroma1.it/saggio/Conferenze/Kuwait/Text/index.html