zenon's city - prolegomena to a critique of urban reason
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Klaus Wassermann
Zenon‘s City
wassermann@arch.ethz.ch
Preliminary Suggestions on Urban Reason
Hot Spots :: der Stadtentwicklung
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Hot Spot :: Perspective
ONE
MANY
ANY
personal
formal
medial
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Critique of Geometry
Critique of Urban Reason
Which is the Essence of City?
Preliminary Remarksmethodological issues
as a figure of thought in Architecture
Proto-Schemata:Growth-network-Complexity-Information
Potential Elements of Construction
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Begin of the first Part:
Preliminary Remarksand a short methodological warm-Up
((( aspects )))
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Is it possible to plan „CITY“?
Is it possible to plan „URBANITY“?
theoría: Anschauung, Überlegung, Einsicht
theory = (ortho-)regulation of the genesis and parameterisation of models
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City Development – Linguistics of a Figure
the C
ityDevelopment
of
of a
city
-lik
e
Evolu
tion
Plan
Engineering
run of„events“
Th
eory
Perform
ances
pace
time
Individua
l
Logics
Growth
pla
inly
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Methodologicals (I)challenges & constraints by
Disziplinary Perspectivesanalysis of power, conflict-/consumism-analytics (Weber, Durkheim)
Normative (naturalistic) Fallacies Romanticisms and Idealism (Feldtkeller, Mumford)
Reductionisms, IdeologicalizationsMaterialism: statistical (Hillier), naturalistic (Mitscherlich),
formal (L.Wirth, Burgess), cybernetic (Luhmann)
„Projectionism“Import of highly integrated Theories: knowledge (Matthiesen),
evolution (Schamp)
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Aspekte und ihr WechselAspects become visible only in their exchange
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Methodologicals (II)
Structure
Element
Mechanism
cave definitionem !!!
„City“ is obviously difficult to grasp
?Heterotopia Koolhaas/Foucault
with strong symbolistic Components
SyntheticComparatistics
no existential questions please ... What „is“ ...
serious story telling
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Begin of the First Part:
Critique of Geometry
Influence, Reach and Overloadings
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The Holiness of Geometryfirst procedure, which promised correctness of a construction ...
independent of ...
locationtimeperson
in opposition to symbolisation
Safety was achieved through the
linkage o structure (axiomatics) and
values (Sinnanspruch)
narration, poetics
Universals
There are none!
are there...?
justific
ation?
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Fatal inherited Diseaserole of geometry
by Euclid quite unsuitable positioning of axiomatics
things, that are directly (unmediated) clearWhat, if there is no epistemic directness ?
Primacy of Interpretation
... then axioms would moult into interesting rules of games.
first heureka-experience by the power of „ideomatics“
complementary: Primacy of Modelling
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Inherited Disease (II): Phenotypical FoldingsG
eom
etry
Cen
terC
on
dit
ion
alcausal chain
Causality
AxiomaticsD
efinition
If - Then
Proof
Mat
hem
atik
CyberneticsScience
Juristerei
Frankfurter Schule
control technologyIT
Frege
Positivism
Shannon
Luhmann
navigator
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Towards the Sun in a straight Line...
City (?) as a kind of Accidens
Karlsruhe m
id 17th century
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Obsessions on Centers
Palmanova: Inhabiting or Freedom plans for new garden city,18th century
Pal
man
ova „London“
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Nowa Huta (Pl) – City (?) for Heroes of Production
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geometry just yesterday
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The Roaring Twenties...
bold utterings
serious issues
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geometry today: according to human Measure?
urban?
progressive? well developed?
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of course, Bucky-Boy won‘t miss...
The straight-lineObsession
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Logistics: the straight regime of Causality
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CCD Registers: Logistics of Information
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The APOLLO Story 1969
the Atlas-phantasm of
the fixed point
the total triumph of the global
equation
Oh holy Grale of geometric Modernism
the steady pole
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The Story 2009
never only ONE,
though not yet
just MANY,
but ARBITRARY(as YOU<!> like)Fixed Points
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the first and (so far) the only
Compass for topo- logicalSpaces
Owner:
Sparrow, Jack
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Zäsur
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What can not be drawn (any more)...
About
Ichn
ogra
phia
Ort
hogr
aphi
a at the
End
of
Geo
Metry
what we cannotspeak
Sce
nogr
aphi
a
The end of Expressibility
Formalisability
Axiomatisability
...has to be calculated, may be rendered...has to be calculated, may be rendered
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just a different rendering
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What can not be drawn (any more)...
freezed to state
freely choosable point in time
not an algorithm any more
semi-open results
Reaction-Diffusion Mechanism
Michael Hansmeyer
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What can not be drawn...
Schuytgraf, NL
real-time
constraint
optimization
120 clients
1000‘s of constraints
hierarchy of goals
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ethz caad
What can not be drawn...
Globus Zh, CH
pre-specificdesign
das differential ofarchitectonicmatter
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What can not be drawn...
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End of the First Part:
Critique of GeometryThe End of axiomatic Universals
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Begin of the Second Part:
Critique of Urban Reason
((( which are the essences of any thinking about the City, beyond of any specific theories? )))
Conditions for a Thinking of City-Becoming
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Layout (genealogy) of our Critique
Network
Growth
Associativity
Complexity
Self-Organisation
Cat
egor
yO
peration
Information
formalisable structural models
Efficacy Causality
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das einfachste Wachstum
entlang des Atomgitters: Mikro=Makro
repräsentationale Symmetrie
::by attachment (from the outside)
vollständig de-individualisierte „atomare“ Module
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::by attachment (from the outside)
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::by attachment (from inside)
the principle:fixing of singular points & differentiating & repeatingfinding of a particular point: 2-Component System
fraktal growth
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welwitschia
Welwitschia – a living fossil
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Plant
Plant (-like)
Growth in Plants2-Component-System at singular mikro fields (meristeme)
self-affine replication
added complexity by repetition of processes
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::by attachment (from outside & inside)
added complexity by standardised regulation
primitive division of labor
swarm
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::by attachment (from outside & inside)
Michael Batty, 2008Caglioni & Giovanni, 2003
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::differentiation towards the inside
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::differentiation towards the insideK
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loon 1993
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::differentiation towards the inside
verticalve
rtic
al
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::differentiation towards the inside: embryo
locally-induced growth,foldings AND Apoptosis !
fractality establishesonly lokal any more
„blue prints“
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Koolhaas, an embryologist?
melting
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Embryonic Growth
added Complexity by deeply layeredand embedding regulation
gain ofadaptivity
and potential
Differentation towards
the inside
emergence ofcontexts and individuality
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::differentation towards the inside ...
innere Kompartimente können umarrangiert werden: potentielles schmelzen, Fusion von Räumen und Membranen
Zuweisung von „innen“ / „aussen“ muss immer wieder neu verhandelt werden
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Growth, Differentiation: ImmaterialGrowth
Konrad Lorenzchanges in behavior precede changes of morphology
Evolution
Training
Learning, Memory, Habits, Virtualisation, Mediatisation
unfolding
structural dynamics
scaling
immaterial differentiation
changes inmorphology
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Interestingness and Patterns of Growth
which patterns
are the most frequently used?
associative (as a „body without organs“)
which arethe most promising?
anorganic, crystalline
swarm-basedplant-likeembryonic
informationallogistic, optimizing (leafs)
learning & behavior
organic
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interim resultCritique of Urban Reason
Growth
temporal dynamicstemporal dynamics of the transformation of structures
overcoming of the „contingencycontingency--hypothesis“
transition to evolutiveevolutive processes
new questions: regulative factorsregulative factors, e.g. for continuity, melting
typology typology of differentiation processes (epi/genetics)
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Genealogy of our Critique: Part 2
Networks
Growth
Associativity
Complexity
Self-Organisation
Cat
egor
yO
peration
Information
formalisable structural models
Efficacy Causality
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living things
social issues
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Complexity: Bestandsaufnahmeclear and dark bright and
labyrinthinedark and convoluted
Luhmann, Sozial Systeme: „Complexity is that information, which is missing for the system, in order to measure, comprehend and describe its surrounding environment completely.“
Self-preservation develops into a problem, „since for any system the surrounding environment is more complex than the system itself."
Complexity as a cipher for non-understandability
Complexity als inevitable external threat
Complexity as a syntactic-algorithmic entity
definitely ineligible for
real contexts
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Context of Complexity
complexity is not reducible
makroskopichproperties are notdescribable on the mikroscopic levelin principal
complexity involves strong emergence
strong emergence is indispensable for adaptivity
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What is the minimal, sufficient
(and necessary)
description of emergence ?
What is the minimal, sufficient
(and necessary)
description of emergence ?
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weak, farweak, far
strong, closestrong, close
micro-antagonistic self-referential 2-component system
Turing P
attern
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a mystical-opaque concept
is being transformed
into a non-deterministic
parameter space
Elementarisation of Complexity
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Dissipation
Antagonistic Forces
Standardisation
Active Compartmentalization
systemic Knots
reaction-diffusion-system, dialectics as population
flow of entropy, consumption of energy
sign theoretical: semiotic, algorithmic, geno-/phenotype, code, rule
transition from order to organisation; demands for: left-overs, death, reduction
internal model-based control provokes latentantagonisms, „self-sustaining complexity“
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RD-Prozesse: Besonderheiten
absolutely„impermeable“epistemologicseparation
mikro
makro
molekules, cells, ants, words, events, human individuals, actants in a network
descriptive categories can NOT be applied to
the other layer mutually!
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interim resultCritique of Urban reason
Complexity
Elementarisation allows for Operationalisabilityof creative Processes
objective diagnosis / prognosis ofstasis, Adaptivity or chaos-like melting
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Genealogy of Critique U.R.: Part 3
Networks
Growth
Associativity
Complexity
Self-Organisation
Cat
egor
yO
peration
Information
formalisable struktural models
Efficacy Causality
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Networks
Cities are networks, ok, so what? a TRIVIAL remark?
Concept had not been in use before 1980.
Network Knots and Links (everything is network, isn‘t it?)
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From different Worlds
Logistic Networks
Associative Networks
geometric-causal
algebraic-informational
effect-orientiet::basic typology of networks
temporally neutral, „real-time“
actualizes just as operation = as sth temporal
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hubs, scale-free
hierarchical
fractal
deterministic
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rhizomatic
Growth ?
redundant
recurrent
probabilistic
random density
Learning !
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...... a powerfula powerful andand scalablescalable formalformal
modelmodel
mapping of n-dimensional descriptions mapping of n-dimensional descriptions
onto a m(2+)-dimensional maponto a m(2+)-dimensional map
self-organizing map (SOM)self-organizing map (SOM)
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Associativity in the Space of the City
Meta-Stability of Neighborhoods
not reducible to the reasoning power of individuals
“Once set up, a city is a great sorting mechanism
which ... infallibly selects out of the population
as a whole the individuals best suited to live in
a particular region or a particular milieu.”Robert Park, 1952: Human Communities.
Zürich Augustinergasse,Farbraum Stadt, 2010
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Associativity and Memory
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Logistic Networks
are the great Optimizers
of identified Relations
in (quasi-)material contexts
useful
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are the great inducers and inventors
of potential Relations,
yet to be constructed
Associative Netwerks
Randolations
in purely informational contexts
interesting
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an
urban- material-proto-inter-net in steel &
glass
The Manhattan-Syndromthe „Urban“ & the Web share important properties
associativity
abundant heterotopias
information as essential driver
high density, intensive flows
mediagenicity
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web(b)ed Urbanity = Wurbanitythe new mash-up: the Urbane und das Web
descriptional scheme: abstracting from both = WURB
development of cities not (anymore just) as built substanceInternet of Things (150 web devices/person by 2015) local semi-virtualisation of physical processesextending social realities as kind of „mixed reality“ New Media, new Spaces, new habits, new densification
New kinds of „Urbanity“
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interim resultCritique of Urban Reason
Associativity
description of dynamic aggregations
dynamics of qualitative properties becomes accessible
„collective“ memory processes are rendered explicable
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Schemata of a Critique of Urban Reason
Networks
Growth
Associativity
complexity
Cat
egor
yO
peration
formalisable Struktural Models
formalisable
skalogen
active Comparatistics
operationalisable
interdependent Conditions for Thinking the Costruction of the City
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End of the second Part:
Critique of Urban Reason
conditions for a thinking of constructing the city
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Begin of the third Part:
Potential Elements of Construction
((( getting operational )))
(semi-)abstract conditions for a City-becoming
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Conditions of the Possibility of Urbanity
Logistics material as well as immaterial, visible body of rules,organisatorically adaptive, „real-time“ function
irreducible dimensional construction
Participation real-time, „mixed-reality“, and densified
Continuity organisatorical-(quasi-)material
Heterotopia informatorical-ordinal, open, manifold and mediatised antagonisms
„Abundance“ local, accessible, due to suitable scaling
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Entwicklungsfelder Urbaner Vernunft
Stadt densified potential for the creation of organisation from order, often limited tophysical-material aspects
residential areas
tradition-bound order of individual roles as predecessors of institutions, often centralistic, oligarchic or autokratic
Urbanität volatilised AND virtualised conditions for „Citiness“ in the realm of the immaterial;in the future tendentially more as „Wurbanity“
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Zenon‘s City ...
A field made from differential, volatile, sprouting inertial reference systems! ... which as a (semi-)autonomous entity develop its own character and its own power (as potential)
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Thanks !
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