architecture

We are pleased to announce to the Lift community that we are organizing a mini-conference in Seoul, under the Lift@Home program.

DALSMA* (Digital Architecture and Large Scale Media Art) will consist of 6 talks by 6 speakers, selected from both the Industry and Academia, who work in South Korea in the field of architecture and media art. Topics covered will include digital facades, urban informatics, urban art, media art, generative architecture. The event will take place in Seoul, on Friday May 14th (7pm-10pm) in this fabulous pod:

The event will be free and a refreshment will be served. Take a look at he event's homeage and to register and secure your seat!

Looking forward to see you at DALSMA*
Best regards,

Lift@Home Seoul Team

Lift09 speaker Dan Hill (video) wrote a blog post an essay following a walk in Geneva, touching on the story of the city through its architecture. A very nice way to rediscover the city I live in, and see it with fresh eyes.

Notes on Geneva. A Walk.

As noted previously, I managed to escape for a brisk walk around Geneva during the Lift09 conference, heading from the conference venue down towards the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO) and back. This was the first time I’d done such a drift aided by the iPhone’s GPS+Google-driven 'certainties', and it worked well, enabling me to embark in broadly the right direction, veering off aimlessly onto the most interesting-looking streets whilst reacquainting myself with the optimum route every now and then; a kind of waggle dance back and forth, following invisible satellites.

Dan Hill is a pioneering figure in the development of innovative information and communications technology products and services since the early ’90s. One of the most impressive roles Dan has had in his fruitful career was that of chief architect for the redesign of the BBC’s web presence, implementing strategies to meet the requirements for the “on-demand” media age, including the development of the BBC iPlayer.

Another role Dan Hill has played was that of Director of Web & Broadcast for the ground-breaking global media Monocle, He also organised the architecture and urbanism conference Postopolis in New York, and runs City of Sound, generally acclaimed as one of the leading architecture and urbanism websites.

Mr. Hill currently works for the multinational design consultancy Arup in Sydney, Australia, where he acts as a senior consultant focusing on urban planning and design, leading Arup into the emerging field of urban informatics and urban information design.

If you're interested in buildings which can "talk" with each others, Yang Soo-In's presentation is spot on. His speech about the "living city" is about the sensors which disappear into the urban fabric and it allows building to communicate information about their local conditions to a network of other buildings. Yang’s work is very interesting as it shows how the city can be seen as a research lab.

If your interested in buildings which can "talk" with each others, Yang Soo-In's presentation is spot on. His speech about the "living city" is about the sensors which disappear into the urban fabric and it allows building to communicate information about their local conditions to a network of other buildings. Yang’s work is very interesting as it shows how the city can be seen as a research lab.

Jeffrey Huang, professor at the Media and Design Lab (Swiss Institute of Technology, Lausanne) addresses the merging of the digital and the physical in the context of near future cities. Through different projects he conducted, he exemplifies how interactive technologies can transform our physical environment to foster better communities.

Jeffrey Huang, professor at the Media and Design Lab (Swiss Institute of Technology, Lausanne) addresses the merging of the digital and the physical in the context of near future cities. Through different projects he conducted, he exemplifies how interactive technologies can transform our physical environment to foster better communities.

Adam opening opened the conference with a great talk about how cities are now becoming read/write environments rather than de-socialized zones with everybody isolated in a tech bubble (iPod, mobile phone).

An energetic, visual journey in tomorrow's urban environments.

Yoo Suk Yeon is showing what she is doing as both an architect and a researcher, trying to build physical spaces for a population that is getting more and more connected and virtual everyday. She had the most beautiful and intriguing slides we have seen in a while!

Yoo Suk talks in both Korean and English.