New School Symposium Liveblog 2

(Cameron cont.)

Actor network theory is interesting. The practice turn in sociology. Assemblages of beliefs, skills, devices, communities. But instrumentalized.

Let's identify what we might write for a small collection that might publish this. What would sustainable design studies be?

Now Daemian is up. He has a very interesting talk on mutualism (anarchism). I'm looking forward to his presentation.

Daemian asks what Cameron has against architecture. Cameron says architecture doesn't think about people in buildings specifically. Take the presence of humans, translate into a data line, that then becomes an aesthetic form. Concerned that practices get obliterated at scale. Architecture designs outside in but cities are lived inside out.

Clive: architecture obscures the nature of design, not reveals it. But then how on Earth do you move back to issues of scale?

Globalization half-consciously puts this issue on the table. Models of cities and habitation are spread worldwide. You see a stack of tower blocks and a large horizontal spread. One sees these patterns spreading globally.