It is a very nice news, U:Lab.spb project together with our many collaborators has been published in Tatlin Mono Catalogue of young russian architects 2013-14, many thanks to Jane Repina for the invitation and support and to all guys we were very lucky to do the work together.
Also it was very nice to see all our collaborators from the Branchpoint community and some of our former students published in this catalog.
This August Simplex nois in collaboration with Branchpoint project and Designet.ru organised Spotcamp Sochi. Spot camp was a 2 weeks training and 2 weeks design workshop with a group of very interesting tutors and lecturers from all around the world including guys from Design Research Lab, Em Thech Architectural Association and IAAC. I really enjoyed to be a part of this venue , making a lecture and tutoring the final part of the design workshop, here you can find report about Spotcamp in russian.
The title of my lecture was "New Craftsmanship", inspired by Richard Sennett book I took an attempt to revise the idea of craft and craftsmen in the context of contemporary society, where the information technologies new fabrication technologies are changing role of designer and the relationships between designer/consumer. and designer/creation. Bioengineering, robotics and computation allow us to introduce the local intelligence within a fabrication process, this offer us to rethink the idea of what is the final product of the design process. These technologies in oppose to industrial production creates a potentiality of new production logic within a new idea of the efficiency and rationality of the product. Following Sennett ideas, we may compare new craftsman of today to engineers of victorian age, the times before the industrial line created the gap between the designer and his creation, the times when innovation tool was directly belong to the creator.
I am very pleased to announce that in June the Publication ” Critical Territories: From Academia to Praxis” has been issued. This publication constitutes a compilation of Landscape Urbanism AA Master projects, including my Landscape urbanism Master project I did in 2007-08.
"Critical Territories opens with a series of contributions to the ongoing development of theoretical perspectives before turning to elaborate, from within the academic framework of the Architectural Association, the work of Landscape Urbanism students and the agendas they have engaged with in Mexico, Sri Lanka, Dubai and China and the intensive workshops with which they have been involved in Europe. It then turns, finally, to the projects produced and realised by the Landscape Urbanist practice Groundlab."
You can check my interview about architectural education in London and Architectural Association, which I did some time ago for Designet and Tatlin magazine. Unfortunately text is only in russian.
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