"Framing,
Looping & Projecting, Quantum Architecture. Through the looking-glass of The Interopera"
Brian Boigon
is a Design Theorist, Artist, Art Director, Writer, Researcher & Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Daniels Faculty
of Architecture, Landscape & Design, University of Toronto.
His
research is in the hybrid field of Science Fiction, Locomotive (movement) Design and Quantum Physics. Trained as an Architect,
Boigon has been involved with spatial productions since 1994 when he launched the first tween-based virtual avatar town called
Spillville (see WIRED
https://www.wired.com/1994/12/boigon/.
His
current research is focused on the invention of a quantum science fiction portal called The Interopera.
https://www.christiecontemporary.com/boigon-images-1He is author of several books including: The Interopera Reader, We Have Impact and Speed Reading Tokyo. Boigon's work is
in numerous collections and at the CCA (Canadian Centre for Architecture) archives. Boigon is currently working on his next
iteration of The Interopera while teaching and directing the Inner Outer Space Lab
https://www.innerouterspacelab.org
at the University of Toronto.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbvw89/how-space-based-design-will-keep-martians-and-moon-dwellers-saneGreater FuturesAlmost all challenges societies around the globe face today
are complex, interconnected and placed in a rapidly changing environment. The rhetoric about what is to come is swinging between
utopia and dystopia, between nostalgia and techno-utopias. The only fact about the future is that it is inevitable.
The
grandfathers of futurism, the Italian Futurists, showed that the future is not only a domain of time but also of ideology.
Subsequently the fathers of futures studies developed principles on how to study the future. Hence, according to futures studies
scholar Jim Dator: "The future cannot be 'predicted' but alternative futures can be 'forecasted' and preferred futures 'envisioned'
and 'invented'- continuously." (Dator, 1996)
Yet, the world as it is has its own impact on the future and according to
another futures studies scholar Ziauddin Sardar the relevance of futures studies resides within the present. According
to Sadar the value of change in people's perceptions and motivations, channeled into an evolution of present values and immediate
action, can only be judged within its present or immediate future.
Looking at design proposing bigger technological and
cultural innovations the lecture series gathers thoughts and approaches also inspiring for the discipline of architecture,
aiming for a greater world after tomorrow.
Upcoming IoA Sliver Lecture Series 2019/20:Anab Jain, (tba)
Jose Sanchez, April 2, 2020
Alison Clarke,
April 28, 2020
Monika Bielskyte, June 2, 2020
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