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Algorithmic Environments (Ulrika Karlsson, Servo & KTH).
Los Angeles Islands (Lars-Henrik Ståhl, LTH)
Arkitektur ur Transformation (Elizabeth Hatz, KTH)

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Algorithmic Environments - Prototypes for Performative Design

”Algorithmic Environments” is an international collaborative architecture and design research project in the field of "practice- or performance-based research in the arts." The project is based in Stockholm with satellites in Los Angeles, Zurich and New York. Through a critical, yet playful use and abuse of new media; information technology, digital design tools, numerically controlled processes for visualization and fabrication etc., the project seeks to problematize the relationship of ‘production’ and ‘performance’, ‘purveyance’ and ‘authorship’. To what extent does the notion of value transform when the design process is infiltrated by technologies that foster mass-produced differentiation and when exclusive authorship is eschewed in favor of a distributed design process? The notion of performance value relies on the extent to which a system allows for modifications, carries responsive abilities. To what degree does technology-induced ambiguities between performance value and production, purveyance and authorship, reconfigure not only the nature of design but of architectural and artistic practice itself? A series of spatial/environmental performative prototypes will be developed and tested in urban contexts, through exhibitions and in electronic as well as printed publications. 

Project seminar: Prototypes for Performative Design, Sept 15^th 2003

People: Head of project: Ulrika Karlsson (Architect, SERVO and KTH).
Team: The research project will be managed by the research and design collaborative SERVO (David Erdman, Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, Los Angeles, Marcelyn Gow, School of Architecture at ETH, Zurich, Ulrika Karlsson, School of Architecture at KTH, Stockholm and Chris Perry, Graduate School of Architecture planning and preservation at Columbia University, New York) with Ulrika Karlsson as head of project. The project team will have its base at the Architecture School at KTH, Stockholm and will apart from Karlsson consist of Marcelyn Gow, Pablo Miranda, Daniel Norell and Jonas Runberger.

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Los Angeles Islands – A Practice-based Research project on Architectural Americanisms in a Swedish Region

Los Angeles Islands is a practice based research project influenced by the visual culture. Investigating ‘architectural americanisms’ the project gathers seven architects and visual artists around a cross-reading of the cities of Los Angeles and Malmö. It takes its points of departure in two contemporary cultural phenomena: on one hand the americanisation of the Swedish urban landscape, and on the other the counter-cultures that follows from the first.

Project seminar: Los Angeles Islands, Nov 17^th 2003

People: Head of project: Lars Henrik Ståhl (Architect, PhD, LTH) Team: Nina Aronsen (Architect), Per-Johan Dahl (Architect), Sara Eriksson (Architect), Annelie Nilsson (Visual artist), Gunnar Sandin (Visual artist, PhD-candidate, LTH), Lars-Henrik Ståhl (Architect, PhD, LTH), Gunilla Svensson (Architect).

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Architecture in Transformation - Extension, Movement, and Permanence

Architecture in Transformation gathers three architects, all practicing both as teachers and designers, to explore through architectural projects new ways of seeing and creating architecture from an existing, often highly complex, contaxt. Its focus is on drawing and modelling processes where architecture is in itself regarded both as a source of knowledge and as raw material.

Project seminar: Architecture in Transformation, Jan 26^th 2004

People: Head of project: Elizabeth Hatz (Architect and Professor, KTH). Team: Susanna Bremberg (Architect and Lecturer, KTH), Elizabeth Hatz (Architect and Professor, KTH), Katarina Lundeberg (Architect and Lecturer, KTH).