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Cesar Harada / Hiromi Ozaki / Ruairi Glynn
Monday 06th Jul 2009
6:30pm for 7:00pm
The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street
London, EC1M 6EJ.
Nearest Tube: Farringdon
Entrance: £6 Non-members - £4 Members/Students - £2 Student Members

Synopsis
Open_Sailing is an alternative vision of life at sea: pioneering innovative architecture, navigation and sea farming techniques to create a life that’s comfortable, sustainable and safe. This interdisciplinary team are developing a floating architecture: a laboratory for techno-social experiments that evolves like a living organism. Gradually, this project is building towards a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, from the Azores to Brazil; currents and drift will carry this nomadic structure on its way.

Cesar Harada studied Applied Arts at Ecole Boulle; animation at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs Paris; and industrial design at the ENSCI Les Ateliers Saint-Sabin. He is author of HARADA and Open_Architecture (RCA publication.) and taught at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Versailles.

Hiromi Ozaki is a programmer and artist. A Maths and Computers graduate of Imperial College, As Sputniko! Hiromi also creates music, performances and films which humorously explore quirky ways in which we engage with technology. Hiromi is the creator and developer of hi-ve, a swarm intelligence-inspired operating system.

Cesar and Hiromi are both researchers in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art collaborating on Open_Sailing.
Ruairi Glynn is director of the blog interactivearchitecture.org

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Last event at Art & Architecture > What's Wrong With Competitions For Art And Architecture? Tonkin Liu / Judith Strong / Isabel Vasseur

Event report by Dr Marcin Kolakowski :
" My friend warned me it would be a boring evening at A&A. He was wrong. Something that at first sight seemed like talking about a trivial struggle with bureaucracy turned into a hot discussion, almost too hot for “a gentlemen’s debate”… Well, the open public discussion is what distinguishes the A&A lectures from other venues where one could drawn in abundance of small talk and complements. My friend who forecasted boredom did not realize that the A&A lectures dedicated to public issues are the hottest evenings…

And competitions seem to be in the middle of public and political life. It was indicated already by the title of the A&A evening “What’s wrong with public competition for architecture and art?”

The first speaker Judith Strong, proved that this very question is not only a dilemma of the present times. The history of architectural competitions in England shows pros and cons of different competition systems since 60s. Judith Strong, who started as Competition Officer at RIBA and coordinated over 100 competitions, could offer a unique insight behind the scenes of competition preparation and tell us about not so well known details of architectural competitions from the perspective of their organizer. Using many examples she showed how the structure of a competition could shape architectural landscape." read more...