A GLOBAL GARDEN: architectural models for the Planetary Biosphere.
May 20th 2009, 10.30 – 12.00 Interface Culture Lab, Sonnensteinstrasse 11-13, 2. floor
New issues on architecture, agri-tecture, biodiversity & emerging trends in the area of virtual-actual urbanism: new projects and creativity for the social & political scenario of 21st century.
This lecture will be an open discourse on:
- The “garden” as a metaphysical space, garden as a state of mind.
- The “Landscape architecture” of Gilles Clément:
The “Planetary Garden” conception of biosphere and the importance of biodiversity.
- Art & its spaces: when Art meets Architecture
- The role of Museums – urbanistic & cultural aspects.
The museum’s place in the territory and its role within the cultural system.
- Art and urbanism:
The light- facade, the pixel- facade, the “green” facade
- Cultural system, establishment and biodiversity:
a discourse on “psycho-diversity”, eccentricity and creativity
- Architecture and Biotecture
- Artist’s role, social & political commitment.
- Epigenetics, lateral thinking and evolutionary models:
Heading towards a new human species?
For many centuries, gardens have been both a source of fascination, inspiration and an object of cultural investigation.One fairly elusive, yet dynamically central characteristic of gardens is their perceived contemplativeness. But the garden is a living “work of art”.
This implies considering the landscape itself as an object for contemplation, a vessel for meaning, but also – as opposed to a mere location - a vessel for human presence & interaction.
The ideal type of “garden” is, in the most explicit, etimologic and structured sense, a picture of “paradise”. Thus we are presented with a multilayered fictional world, vibrant with meaning. This wide-ranging concept also outlines many of the challenges and controversies concerning the definition of biological life, and the dynamic of developing science fields such as artificial life. To further enhance commitment and participation in the landscape, the essential role of art, the re-tailoring of architecture to people’s needs and the crystallization of new cultural values become fundamental steps in the new research. This study touches on various aspects of complex and rapidly developing disciplines, including its possible connections to artificial intelligence, biodiversity, epigenetics, lateral thinking and evolutionary models.
Biography:
Since 2006 Prof. Dr. Damiani is the art director for three collateral events at the Venice Biennale, in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The Foundation La Biennale di Venezia is the promoter and organizer of the International Art&Architecture Exhibition which usually includes: the international exhibition; the official participations of the various countries; a limited number of collateral events which will be acknowledged as an integral and specific section of the International Exhibition
The collateral events of the International Art&Architecture Exhibition are organized by Italian and international institutions operating in the field of art, architecture and similar disciplines. The section will include events which will have been previously examined and selected by the Director of the International Architecture Exhibition.
In 2008 Prof. Dr. Damiani was organising the collateral event “The City of Man” at the La Biennale di Venezia 11th International Architecture Exhibition 2008. The Interface Cultures department of the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz was participate in the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2008 with the project DADAGear (students Mauro Arrighi, Anika Hirt, Onur Sönmez) and a lecture on the Interface Cultures department’s projects and connection between architecture and interaction.
