MPhil/PhD Architecture and Digital Theory The Bartlett School of Architecture 2017
From machine to body: the new body-machine interfaces and prosthetic apparata; scanning, sensing, virtual and augmented reality, immersive and interactive environments, from wearables to the domestic, urban and territorial scales. From bodies to collective intelligence: datascapes, real-time mapping, GIS and sociopolitical geography, landscapes and biotech control, history and theory of space syntax and technologies of simulation for urbanism and planning. Geospatial cyberinfrastructure. Cognitive aspects of design computing systems. Intelligent Support in design and in the built environment. The new political economy of digitally driven environments: from non-linearity and Object-Oriented Ontology to the new markets, pricing, and business models of digital econometrics. History of digital tools for notation and fabrication, from manual to mechanical to electrical to electronic; from Alberti’s geometrical and number-based replication machines to early CAD-CAM in the 20th century. History of quantification in design and of design processes as cultural technologies: geometry and projections, numeracy and the rise of formalisation in early modern architectural theory. The modern analytic approach to structural design, from Galileo to F.E.A.
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