DEEP.FOREST

'Diving deeply into a forest means losing oneself into the multiplicity of interconnecting processes that define its very existence; and with it our own identity. In our contemporary world, these processes are biological and digital, as both the forest and us are cyber-organic networks. Like the slime mould, it serves as both a woodland fungus and a biological computer, a form of wetware AI infrastructure with the capacity to plan a city.'

As Artificial Intelligence permeates the world, and with it, Architecture, the discipline may stand at the threshold of yet another paradigm shift. In this lecture, Claudia Pasquero will discuss her team’s recent work and research, exploring a vision of architects evolving from form-makers into system designers: spatial mediators between digital and biological realms. In this view, the design studio is no longer a room of drawings and models, but a living laboratory where code and culture, matter and metabolism, machines and landscapes coalesce.

This event will take place in person in the AA Lecture Hall and will also be live-streamed here.

You can also watch the Design Research Laboratory (DRL) Jury from 10am on Thursday 8 January online here, and from 10am on Friday 9 January online here.