Usman Haque Umbrellium Architect & artist, director
Usman Haque est le directeur de Haque Design + Researchet le fondateur de Pachube, un service qui permet de stocker des données provenant de capteurs du monde entier et de les utiliser pour déclencher facilement des actions. Basé sur sa formation d'architecte il a créé de nombreux environnements "responsive", des installations interactives, des dispositifs connectés ainsi que de nombreuses actions de masse. Ces compétences vont du design à l'ingenierie d'espaces de leur conception à la mise en place de système logiciel pour interagir avec eux.
Il reçoit en 2008 le Design of the Year Award (interactive) from the Design Museum, En 2009 le World Technology Award (art), le Wellcome Trust Sciart Award, une prime de la Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, le Swiss Creation Prize, Belluard Bollwerk International, le Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence prize et le Grand Prix Asia Digital Art Award.
In Praise of Messy Cities
Cette conférence est soutenue par le BEP
The "smart city" approach suggests we simply need appropriate and accurate monitoring equipment to reveal all the intricacies and complexities of a finite and knowable universe -- technology helps us do these things "better", so, the argument goes, we need more technology. Yet, cities are what Russell Ackoff might call a "mess". Every issue interrelates to and interacts with every other issue; there is no clear "solution"; there are no universal objective parameters; and sometimes those working on problems are actually the ones who are causing them. Urban data isn't simply discovered, it is invented, manipulated and crafted; and cities aren't 'solved', they are created through the actions, motivations and decisions of their citizens. So what is "smartness" in this context? The talk will discuss the paradoxical structures of urban collaboration, and ways that the paradoxes can be harnessed in constructing participative architectural systems, with specific reference to Usman's
interactive environments, urban spectacles, collaboration platforms and other concrete examples.
