Futurism 2.0
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Nicolas Turchi (MArch II) Robots In & Out of Buildings Instructors: Greg Lynn, Jeffrey Schnapp
Virgil Abloh Core Studio Public Lecture October 26, 2017
Virgil Abloh: I’m going to turn off my WhatsApp before it starts annoying you. All right. That introduction was serious. Thanks, Oana. Thanks to Harvard for allowing me to come and share random things on my laptop. That’s what this is about to be. First and foremost, I identify with you guys. I feel like I’m a perpetual kid at school. I wish that when I was a student, one person would have given me one ounce of advice that wasn’t: The rest of your career will be an uphill battle. But instead: There are all these shortcuts that you can take. That’s what this whole presentation is about. It’s about shortcuts that I’ve learned through studying super practical things like engineering and architecture. In the outside world, there are all these caveats that you can use to find your career path that are not delineated by a single major. My work is by nature cross-disciplinary. It lives outside the walls of architecture, but it follows the same line of thinking that I learned in school. So that’s the premise of my talk. I’m going to flip through and showcase different things that Instagram doesn’t have the capability to show. I’m going to share every project that I’m working on that I would never Instagram—like Ikea, Nike stuff. I’ll probably get in trouble with some corporation in two seconds, but let’s do it.
The project aims to address the question of why and how autonomous vehicles should integrate with architecture (specifically in an office-building typology). The project is also informed by the feeling of fascination with technology and progress that has always intrigued humans and produced accompanying utopic and dystopic literatures.
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shortage,
Responsive Environments Robotics Transportation Work
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no less profound.
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