Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley: Are We Human?
On Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 7:00 PM, a lecture will take place in the Prague Gallery VI PER, Vítkova 2, featuring leading world theorists of architecture Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, who will present the books and curatorial concept of the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, which both prepared in 2016 under the title Are We Human? The Design of the Species, 2 Seconds to 2 Days, 2 Years, 200 Years, and 200,000 Years. (Are We Human? The Design of the Species, from 2 seconds to 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, and 200,000 years.) This international and interdisciplinary project explored the peculiar and very close relationship between design and humanity, resulting in an ambitious, ongoing series of exhibitions, symposia, book publications, and online experiments. Their manifesto related to the biennial stated: “Design is constantly presented as something that serves humanity; its true aim, however, is to transform the design of humanity itself. The history of design is thus the history of evolving conceptions of humanity. Talking about design is like talking about the state of our species. Humanity has always been fundamentally shaped by the design it produces itself, and the world of design continues to expand. We are living in a time when everything is subject to design, from the carefully crafted appearance and online identities of each of us to entire worlds of personal devices, new materials, interfaces, networks, systems, infrastructures, data, chemicals, organisms, and genetic codes that surround us. An average day contains experiences from thousands of layers of design, which reach out into space but also deep into our bodies and minds. We literally live in design, just as a spider lives in the web it has created with its own body. But unlike the spider, we have woven countless overlapping and interacting networks. Even the planet itself is entirely covered with design like some geological layer. There is no longer any world outside of design. Design has become the world itself. The basic notion of "good design," as brought into the world in London in the mid-nineteenth century, is no longer sufficient. It is an anesthetic that has ceased to work. The most pressing question today is “what is design after design?”
During this lecture, Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley will present their new collection of polemical "field notes" titled Are We Human?: Notes on an Archeology of Design, which goes beyond the biennial in thought content to reconsider our species in a completely different way and – like real archaeology – reveals how it is possible that design has become viral and is now greater than the world itself.
Beatriz Colomina is a professor of theory and history at the School of Architecture and the founder and current director of the Media and Modernity program at Princeton University. She has written many texts on topics such as architecture, art, sexuality, and media. Her published books include: Are We Human? Notes on an Archeology of Design (Lars Müller, 2016), co-authored with Mark Wigley; The Century of the Bed (Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2015); Manifesto Architecture: The Ghost of Mies (Sternberg, 2014); Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X (Actar, 2010); Domesticity at War (MIT Press, 2007); Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (MIT Press, 1994), and Sexuality and Space (Princeton Architectural Press, 1992). She has curated many exhibitions including Clip/Stamp/Fold (2006), Playboy Architecture (2012), and Radical Pedagogies (2014). Together with Mark Wigley, she was the curator of the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial (2016).
Mark Wigley is a professor of architecture and emeritus dean at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He is a historian and theorist who investigates the intersections between architecture, art, philosophy, culture, and technologies. His published titles include: Buckminster Fuller Inc. – Architecture in the Age of Radio (Lars Müller, 2015); The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant's New Babylon to Beyond (edited with Catherine de Zegher, MIT Press, 2001); Constant's New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire (010 Publishers, 1999); White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture (MIT Press, 1996) and Derrida’s Haunt: The Architecture of Deconstruction (MIT Press, 1993). He has curated exhibitions at MoMA, The Drawing Center, Witte de With in Rotterdam, and the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal. In 2016, he was the curator of the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial together with Beatriz Colomina. His latest book, co-authored with Beatriz Colomina, is Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (Lars Müller, 2016).
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During this lecture, Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley will present their new collection of polemical "field notes" titled Are We Human?: Notes on an Archeology of Design, which goes beyond the biennial in thought content to reconsider our species in a completely different way and – like real archaeology – reveals how it is possible that design has become viral and is now greater than the world itself.
Beatriz Colomina is a professor of theory and history at the School of Architecture and the founder and current director of the Media and Modernity program at Princeton University. She has written many texts on topics such as architecture, art, sexuality, and media. Her published books include: Are We Human? Notes on an Archeology of Design (Lars Müller, 2016), co-authored with Mark Wigley; The Century of the Bed (Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2015); Manifesto Architecture: The Ghost of Mies (Sternberg, 2014); Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X (Actar, 2010); Domesticity at War (MIT Press, 2007); Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (MIT Press, 1994), and Sexuality and Space (Princeton Architectural Press, 1992). She has curated many exhibitions including Clip/Stamp/Fold (2006), Playboy Architecture (2012), and Radical Pedagogies (2014). Together with Mark Wigley, she was the curator of the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial (2016).
Mark Wigley is a professor of architecture and emeritus dean at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He is a historian and theorist who investigates the intersections between architecture, art, philosophy, culture, and technologies. His published titles include: Buckminster Fuller Inc. – Architecture in the Age of Radio (Lars Müller, 2015); The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant's New Babylon to Beyond (edited with Catherine de Zegher, MIT Press, 2001); Constant's New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire (010 Publishers, 1999); White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture (MIT Press, 1996) and Derrida’s Haunt: The Architecture of Deconstruction (MIT Press, 1993). He has curated exhibitions at MoMA, The Drawing Center, Witte de With in Rotterdam, and the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal. In 2016, he was the curator of the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial together with Beatriz Colomina. His latest book, co-authored with Beatriz Colomina, is Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (Lars Müller, 2016).
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