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** Responsive Environments and Artifacts: DISAPPEARANCE - Casestudies **

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** Casestudy Presentation Signup Sheet ** : **Session01 (Wednesday, March 7th, 2012)** 1 Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo jgarciad@gsd.harvard.edu 2 Stefano Andreani andreani@gsd.harvard.edu **Session02 (Wednesday, March 21st, 2012)** 3 Timothy Sullivan tsulliva@gsd.harvard.edu 4 Matias Imbern mimbern@gsd.harvard.edu <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">**Session03 (Wednesday, March 28th, 2012)** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">5Jutta Friedrichs jfriedri@gsd.harvard.edu <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">6 Woong Ki Sung noclew@mit.edu <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">**Session04 (Wednesday, April 4th, 2012)** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">7 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">Catherine Winfield winfield@mit.edu <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">8 Ted Diehl tdiehl@gsd.harvard.edu <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">9 Christian Ervin cervin@gsd.harvard.edu <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">**Session05 (Wednesday, April 11th, 2012)** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">10 Matthew Conway mconway@gsd.harvard.edu <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">11 Stephanie Saltzman saltzman@gsd.harvard.edu <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">12 Qi Su qsu@gsd.harvard.edu <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">** ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ** ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">** 1. __Terra Nullius__ byTimothy Sullivan __tsulliva@gsd.harvard.edu__ ** ==== <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">** Research Theme's Short Abstract ** (250 words) ** : ** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; text-align: justify;">Terra Nullius means Empty Land. It was the legal justification for colonial governments for claiming and annexing "un-inhabited lands". Countries that were claimed using include Australia New Zealand parts of Canada, and Greenland. This legal framework created longstanding issues for indigenous populations who were considered "nullius"disappeared. Being a disappeared people meant that for the Australian Aborigines! Which had living in what the british claimed as empty for at least 50,000 years, they had no rights, no protections, and we're for legally controlled by the flora and fauna act. I.e. they were legally considered not as people but as wildlife akin to the koala, or the kangaroo. This was only recently changed in the 1960's. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; text-align: justify;">I want to investigate this concept of empty land, So I have chosen examples of artists(mostly) who engage in finding a parallell existence that exists whether it is codified, systemised by humanity or not. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: justify;">01. Australia

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">**2. The Beauty of Ephemeral by Matías Imbern, __mimbern@gsd.harvard.edu__**
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10px;">Ephemeral things are transitory, existing only briefly, for a short period of time. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10px;">The beauty of ephemeral is not a research about things that literally disappear; it is about things that are real, beautiful things waiting to be discovered, to be appreciated. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10px;">Is not the beauty what is ephemeral but the time that people dedicate to it. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10.6667px;">All is about being aware...
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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10px;">These case studies are the result of an extensive research through the whole semester, looking for inspiration in different areas of interest. The six sub-categories finally chosen for the classification not only share disappearance as a core but also the beauty embedded in their delicate and ephemeral condition. One of the mayor concerns, while doing the investigation, was to provide a balance between architectural and installation examples. Indeed, this was used as a method for blurring the boundaries of these different scales of applicability, reinforcing the idea that beauty should affect constantly our contemporary life. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10px;">The main objective was to generate a feedback with the final project of the course. Is in the ephemeral condition of beauty where the final project is going to work, by making an attempt to send a subtle message enclosed that needs to be discovered about the importance of being aware of beautiful things in life.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">**Reflection:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">01. 4 Beams <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">02. AIDS Memorial - Infinite Forest <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">03. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">**Lightness:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">04. Balloon <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">05. Magic Table <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">06. KAIT Workshop <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">**Light Effects:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">07. Breaking the Edge <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">**Chemical Reaction:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">08. Bar 89 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">**Blurry Boundaries:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">09. UK Pavilion Expo Shanghai 2010 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">10. Museum of Art Glass Pavilion in Toledo <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">**Subtle Movement:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">11. Electronic Origami: Input/Output blintz folding <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">12. Animated Vines

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">** ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">** 3. __Architecture of Memory__ by Ted Diehl, __tdiehl@gsd.harvard.edu__ ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">** Research Theme's Short Abstract ** (250 words) ** : ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">Elias Canetti, a Bulgarian author, once stated "It is the sublime miracle of the human mind: memory." Indeed, more than any other creature, a human being's existence is largely determined by his memory. It is what makes us who we are. However, if memory can play such a major role in shaping the life and being of a person, can memory play a role in shaping the existence of a place, or a time? Do these have memory too? And if so, can a human being access it? How? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">These are questions I seek to explore through the following case studies, showing examples of how space and architecture can capture memories. I have divided these examples into three categories: Memory belonging to a space, memory belonging to a moment, and memory belonging to a person.

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">01. 9/11 Memorial <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> 02. Hypercube <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> 03. Eraser <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> 04. Resounding Arches <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> 05. All Those Vanished Engines <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> 06. Ephemeral Memorials <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> 07. Shifting Time <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> 08. Footsteps Canon <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> 09. Echo Evolution <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> 10. Vietnam Veterans Memorial <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">11. Ise Grand Shrine <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">12. The Memory Machine <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">** ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ **
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">**4. Dereliction by Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo, jgarciad@gsd.harvard.edu** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">**Research Theme:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">In architecture, as buildings are objects created by man, they are usually erected to be inhabited by man. It is in their full use and maintenance that architecture stands at its greatest splendor. Or at least, that is the most accepted convention. But, although architecture is meant to be lived, there are plenty of reasons that can break this relation: obsolescence, budget, comfort, disaster, fear... all of them making the building not apt for its purpose anymore, and hence leading to one of the most interesting states in architecture: //dereliction//. This research will go through a variety of case studies where the disappearance in architecture is manifested in the //presence of time// and the //absence of humans//.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;">01. Project Name02. Project Name03. Project Name <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">01. Assorted works, by Thomas Jorion <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">02. 'The world without us', by Alan Weismann + 'Life after people', by The History Channel <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">03. Assorted paintings, by Caspar David Friedrich <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">04. 'Bank of England' (London, UK), by Joseph Gandy <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">05. Tomb Raider series, by Eidos Interactive <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">06. Brion Cemetery (near Firenze, IT), by Carlo Scarpa <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">07. Convento do Carmo (Lisbon, PT) + Old Town of Belchite (Zaragoza, ES) + Jedburgh Abbey (Jedburgh, UK) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">08. Ruinenberg (Postdam, DE), by Frederick the Great <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">09. Industrial Mining Legacy (Linares, ES) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">10. Old Yugoslavian Republic monuments (various locations, YU), by Josip Tito <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">11. Michigan Theater (Detroit, US), by Rapp & Rapp

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">You might consider Tabitha Soren's [|Uprooted] -Christian. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">Thanks Christian, very interesting. Check Thomas Jorion's work, similar work - Jose Luis


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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">**5. __The dis-appearance of Technology and re-appearance of Nature__ by Stefano Andreani, __andreani@gsd.harvard.edu__**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">**Research Theme's Short Abstract****:**

In the realm of contemporary responsive environments, technology is often an evident feature for the user that is involved in the spatial, sensorial, or interactive experience. Although essential for enabling its realization, technology is however perceived as a non-natural phenomenon, almost at the opposite extreme of what we generally refer to Nature. But what if technology, instead, hides itself for enhancing and making manifest certain characteristics of the natural world? This series of case studies demonstrates how technology can be used to promote, simulate, or recreate responsive natural phenomena that engage the user in such a way that the adopted techniques are almost not perceived anymore. This // disappearance // of technology then allows for the // reappearance // of nature at the eyes of the user, who is somehow detached from the role of technology in favor of an immersive experiences of natural – or hyper-natural – phenomenon. 01. Cloudscapes, by Transsolar + Tetsuo Kondo architects 02. Hylozoic Ground, by Philip Beesly and Rachel Armstrong 03. H.O.R.T.U.S., by ecoLogicStudio 04. Warped, by Matthew Hume 05. Interactive Curtain, by Hyperbody 06. Reef, by Rob Ley 07. Shoal, by Troika 08. Techno-Naturology, by Elain Ng yan Ling 09. Micro Synergetics, by Sascha Bohnenberger 10. Still Life, by Scott garner

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">**9. __Entropy__ by Christian Ervin, __cervin@gsd.harvard.edu__** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">**Research Theme's Short Abstract** (250 words) **:** In this set of case studies, I explore the topic of entropy, in three parts: Material Entropy, Entropy of the Self, and The Refusal of Entropy. Each part contains three projects. In Material Entropy, I present projects concerned with the decay of physical and digital material. Entropy of the Self consists of three projects on the erosion of identity, through mechanical degradation, geologic transformation, and collective aggregation. In The Refusal of Entropy, I explore the Western cultural tendency to control and refute the passage of time and its effects on our bodies and our environments. Taken as a whole, this series of case studies critiques the human obsession with permanence: as material entities subject to the asymmetric trajectory of time, we are always in the process of disappearing.
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Introduction to the theme of Entropy <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">01. Chocolate Bunny by Lernert & Sander

Material Entropy <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">02. Disintegration Loops by William Basinski <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">03. Digital Decay by Claire L. Evans <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">04. Lossless by Rebecca Baron & Douglas Goodwin

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Entropy of the Self <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">05. I Am Sitting In A Room by Alvin Lucier <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">06. Eroded Man Series by Kim Keever <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">07. The Class of 1988 & The Class of 1967 by Jason Savalon

The Refusal of Entropy <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">08. Toshi Shibata <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">09. The Nazca Lines <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">10. Roundup Ready System by Monsanto

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">**9. __Shadows__ by Catherine Winfield, __winfield@mit.edu__** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">**Research Theme's Short Abstract** (250 words) **:** Shadows appear and disappear based on environmental light conditions. During their temporal existence shadows provide time and spatial information, they provide a sense of depth, define the geometry of our environment and can inform us about time of day, even seasonal changes. The ability to perceive ourselves and our surroundings is based on our shadows, when our shadows are mimicked or manipulated our ability to gather information from our surroundings disappears.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">01. Shadowplay by Kyle McDonald <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">02. Augmented Shadow by Joon Y. Moon <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">03. Streams and Flows commissioned by Stavanger, DK <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">04. Shadow Bag by Scott Sona Snibbe <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">05. Curious Creatures by Jimmy McGilchrist <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">06. Shadowing by Pipo Tafel <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">07. Real Life is Rubbish by Tim Noble and Sue Webster <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">08. Body Movies by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">09. Shadow 3 by Shilpa Gupta <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">10. Letterheads by Simurai

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">**9. Disappearance by Stephanie Saltzman, __saltzman@gsd.harvard.edu__** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">**Research Theme's Short Abstract** (250 words) **:**
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">01. Tape Recorders by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">02. One Hundred and Eight by Nils Volker <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">03. Projection One by Andrew Payne and Eddy Man Kim <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">04. Grasp Pendulum by ART+COM <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">05. Glass Box by Jussi Angesleva <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">06. Body Scanner by Jussi Angesleva <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">07. Cityscape by Legoman and Mandril <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">08. Mecaniques Discursives by Legoman and Fred Penelle <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">09. What'll It Take by Graham Coxon and Ninian Doff <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">10. Burberry Fashion Show Beijing 2011 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">11. Air France Commercial by Michel Gondry

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">**10. Designed Emergence by Suqi(Qi Su)** qsu@gsd.harvard.edu It is not time || space. but time && space... It is about transformation... It is about interaction... It is about design...
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01.BLUR 02.Spidernethewood 03.Hybrid Muscle 04.Sound Architecture 05.A history of the sky 06.Winchester House 07.Sagrada Familia 08. Nature is the best designer 09. Touch Me 10. Starry Night []

11. Object Play: Environment Object Scale by Matthew Conway, mconway@gsd.harvard.edu

Abstract: Investigations surrounding responsive environments tend to revolve around kinetic environments which utilize mechatronics and or light within a large scale. However, there is a vast array of scales concerning responsive environments and sensory inputs or tangible objects which effect said responsive environments. This investigation, or series of case studies, intends to span responsive environments in many scales, however always resulting in a response within a user's environment. The investigation begins with a series of case studies, the first starting at the largest scale of object concerning a responsive environment and concluding with the most direct object concerning a responsive environment, with gradations of object scale in between. Through the series of case studies, one may begin to understand the unimportance of object scale in correlation with the scale of the response of the environment. The objects themselves move closer and closer to user autonomy as the scale shrinks, while still maintaining a responsive effect in the environment.

01. 8-Bit Invader by Pavel Novak 02. Bubbles by Material & Application 03. Dune 4.2 by Studio Roosegaarde 04. E-Static Shadows by Zane Berzina 05. Scenocosme by Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt 06. Turntable Rider by Cogoo 07. Audio Cubes by Percussa 08. Wearable Absence by Barbara Layne 09. Intimacy 2.0 by Studio Roosegaarde 10. Performative Ecologies by Ruairi Glynn <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: yellow; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; display: block; height: 1px; left: -40px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;">In architecture, as buildings are objects created by man, they are usually erected to be inhabited by man. It is in their full use and maintenance that architecture stands at its greatest splendor. Or at least, that is the most accepted convention. But, although architecture is meant to be lived, there are plenty of reasons that can break this relation: obsolescence, budget, comfort, disaster, fear... all of them making the building not apt for its purpose anymore, and hence leading to one of the most interesting states in architecture: //dereliction.// In this paper we will examine a variety of case studies where the disappearance in architecture is manifested in the presence of time and the absence of humans.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Capsuula; font-size: 18pt; height: 1px; left: -40px; line-height: 115%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;">The dis-appearance of Technology and re-appearance of Nate