Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
IAAC, 2020-2021
The last few decades have confirmed the evidence of a striking change of paradigms in the definition of our urban spaces of relation, interaction and sociability. These transformations are intimately associated with the current and accelerated growth of the technological capacity to process information, increase communication and multiply differential definitions of our environments. This paradigm shift reverberates with a new urban approach that is underpinned by a singular technological transformation: rather than accumulating discrete ratios of information, we manage continuous flows of information. The seminar will critically reflect on the challenges of cross-linked thinking related to the complex processing of information and its evolutionary and dynamic projection in the urban realm. More in particular, the seminar will build urban narratives and strategic proposals that are able to (1) identify a key topic associated with the urban realm, (2) understand which is the contemporaneous debate that this topic has produced and (3) build a critical approach that permits the student to solidly position him/herself within this debate and within the cultural landscape in which s/he is operating.