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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by N. Bredella
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DESCRIPTION:Nathalie Bredella\n08:45 – 09:30 – Dr N. Bredella\nVisitin
 g Professor at Berlin University of the Arts\, Germany\n\nOn the notion of
  environmental design and architectural ecologies\n\nFocusing on notions o
 f the environment that incorporated scientific knowledge about the interre
 lationship between humans and the environment into architecture during the
  digital turn\, my lecture will revisit the H2Oexpo water pavilion created
  by the Dutch office NOX\, and the ECO-TEC conferences\, a series of event
 s organized by New York’s Storefront Gallery in the early 90s that explo
 red environmental issues related to building and urbanism. I will examine 
 the approaches to natural and constructed ecologies in both projects\, and
  the notions of interactivity they fostered\, suggesting that they harbor 
 spatial and political implications for the environmental issues of today. 
 As a historical reference for an expanded understanding of the environment
 \, I will refer to Richard Neutra’s Survival Through Design (1954)\, a w
 ork which encouraged sensual\, physical\, and cognitive ‘participation
 ’ with the environment\, and which I argue provides insights into both c
 ase studies. Neutra’s approach is useful for understanding H2Oexpo’s m
 edia-technical apparatus\, which incorporated environmental systems with h
 uman experience by engaging the bodies and psyches of visitors. Meanwhile\
 , Neutra’s call for a sense of cosmopolitan responsibility among designe
 rs when it comes to the environment is valuable when looking at the ECO-TE
 C conferences. I suggest that the expanded notion of the environment found
  in projects of the 90s offers a generative perspective on the current cha
 llenge of how we understand ecologies and architecture’s role in the wid
 er environment.\n\n\nShort bio:\nNathalie Bredella is an architectural his
 torian whose work focuses on the history and theory of architecture\, and 
 on media history and technology studies. Her research centers around the i
 nterplay of the technical structures\, theoretical models and social const
 ellations in which architecture is created. She studied architecture at th
 e TU Berlin and the Cooper Union New York and received a PhD on the subjec
 t of architecture and film. She was a visiting professor of architectural 
 history with a focus on media and gender studies at the Berlin University 
 of the Arts\, where she led the DFG-funded project ‘Architecture and New
  Media’. She recently taught on the subject of Architecture and Digitali
 zation at the ETH Zürich and is currently a senior research fellow at the
  DFG-funded Institute of Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer Simu
 lation at Leuphana University\, working on a project on ‘Ekistics: compu
 ters\, simulations and planning processes’.\n 
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/81107234995
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