AHO WORKS RESEARCH 2012
Impact, Dissemination and Events
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SLACTIVISM OR ACTIVISM
CENTRE FOR DESIGN RESEARCH CONFERENCE, AHO, 3 MAY 2012
ORGANIZERS:
Jonathan Romm, Henry Mainsah
PARTICIPATING SPEAKERS/EXHIBITORS:
Petter Bae Brandtzæg, Torry Pedersen,
Prableen Kaur, Jørn Johansen, Lars Gillund, Ida Aalen, Nareas Sae-Khow, Andrew
Morrison, Bente Kalsnes
The conference focused on what the ‘new’ society involvement in social media
channels means, and how the public, newspapers, as well as organisations and
businesses with a social responsibility may engage to promote civic engagement
of young people in new surroundings.
THE POETICS OF CLICHÉ
OCCAS LECTURE, MARK COUSINS, OSLO, 25 MAY 2012
Mark Cousins, Head of the Graduate Programme in Histories and Theories at
the Architectural Association, London lectured in an OCCAS seminar on The
Cliché. The cliché represents an insoluble problem for language and art in mo-
dernity. Technology, cities and forms of signification all entail a radical increase
in the volume and density of discourse. This produces both a standardisation
of discourse and a revulsion from this standardisation. A new type of tension
develops between the standard and the rare or the original – a different tension
from that between the copy and the original. The question of the cliché even
extends to people’s lives when they are considered to be living clichés, a new
type of zombie.
THE SENTIENT CITY
CENTRE FOR DESIGN RESEARCH SEMINAR, AHO, 8 JUNE 2012
ORGANIZERS:
Andrew Morrison, Ragnhild Tronsstad
PARTICIPATING SPEAKERS:
Mark Shepard, CUNY, YOUrban project team
The YOUrban project hosted an international half day seminar with one of the leading
figures in architecture, urbansim and media, Prof Mark Shepard, CUNY. Members
of the project presented their work and discussions centred around unpacking
the cultural technologies of the networked not just ‘smart’ city. Mark Shepard’s
edited book
The Sentient City
provided a shared framework for this seminar.
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