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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by M. Claypool
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DESCRIPTION:Mollie Claypool\n10:30 – 11:15 – M. Claypool \nPhD candida
 te at The Bartlett School of Architecture\, UCL\, London\, UK\n\nArchitect
 ure in the Age of Automation\n\nThe state of built environment production 
 today serves as a tangible example of societal values. Inequity abounds. A
 nd architecture is complicit in these asymmetries. It is therefore vital i
 t is to radically rethink what is built\, and how. In the last several dec
 ades\, broadly speaking architecture’s disciplinary practices have been 
 subjugated by neoliberal capitalism. And one of the most imminent threats\
 , and opportunities\, for architecture is automation. While there is a nee
 d to increase automation in construction due to significant automation gap
 s\, focussing on the potentials of science and technology alone is not the
  answer. Nor is the representation\, affect and variation – an exuberanc
 e of form – of the architects of the first digital turn\, which fell int
 o conflict with existing building practices. Automation can instead be ref
 ramed as a design project. Architecture in the age of automation must lear
 n from\, and critique\, previous paradigms while also rethinking framework
 s for production. Automation as a design project enables this talk to navi
 gate a terrain where scientific knowledge and the material production of t
 echnologies can be knotted into sociopolitical processes and imaginaries. 
 When framed in this way\, automation can become an arena through which arc
 hitects can raise and discuss issues such as ownership\, distribution\, la
 bour and the culture and impact of automation on architectural production.
  These are shared and global issues that transcend place\, cultures and co
 ntexts. By addressing them through automation\, the discipline can utilise
  automation in architectural production for the revitalising of a collecti
 ve social project. Building upon the rich legacy of community participatio
 n and the notion of a social project in architecture\, this talk presents 
 an engaged scholarship approach that transcends both disciplinary boundari
 es between history and theory of the digital turn and practice within proc
 esses of automation\, radically restructuring disciplinary understandings 
 of labour\, value and expertise.\n\nShort bio:\nMollie Claypool is an arch
 itecture theorist working on issues of social justice including labour and
  work\, concerned specifically with the implications of new technologies a
 nd automation on architectural production and disciplinary social practice
 s. She is Director of Automated Architecture Ltd (AUAR) and Co-Director of
  AUAR Labs at The Bartlett School of Architecture\, UCL where she has been
  a Lecturer since 2015. At The Bartlett she is History & Theory Coordinato
 r in MArch Architectural Design\, a postgraduate programme in B-Pro\, and 
 is Managing Editor of Prospectives\, a new open-access journal launched in
  2020. She previously ran Unit 19 in MArch Architecture Part II from 2012-
 2018\, and was Co-Director of BSc Architecture Part I from 2014-2018. Moll
 ie is co-author of Robotic Building: Architecture in the Age of Automation
  (Detail Edition 2019) and author of the SPACE10 report “The Digital in 
 Architecture: Then\, Now and in the Future” (2019). Previously\, Mollie 
 was a Course Lecturer in History & Theory at the AA School of Architecture
 . She has studied at Pratt Institute\, AA School of Architecture and The B
 artlett. In addition to her work in architecture\, she works as a birth ac
 tivist\, doula and trade unionist.\n 
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/81324452601
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