Podcasts about experimental architecture

Dans ce Com d'Archi, Héloïse Leboucher et Marc Hymans, s'expriment sur la préservation des ressources, le réemploi des matériaux, et comment trouver de nouveaux modes d'habiter.Au croisement entre architecture, ingénierie et art, le festival ‘Utopies constructives' est dédié à l'innovation et à la recherche. Fondé en 2019 par Marc Hymans, Geoffrey Clamour, Priscillia Jorge et Camille Sineau de ‘BETA' (Bureau for Experimental Architecture) et Benjamin Marolleau du centre culturel ‘La Teinturerie', il est basé à Richelieu. La ville tient son nom du Cardinal Richelieu qui la fit construire sur le modèle de la cité idéale. Riche de cet héritage historique, ce festival d'expérimentation met en commun les savoirs existants et propose de réfléchir collectivement à de nouveaux savoirs, de nouveaux modes de fabrication. Les ‘Utopies Constructives' offrent un cadre pour penser l'utopie et sa fabrication ; car le métier d'architecte est avant-tout une réalité constructive. Chaque trait dessiné sur le papier à un poids dans la réalité. Dans un contexte où les ressources sont autant une question de disponibilité que de géopolitique, ce festival propose de repenser la consommation des matériaux dès la conception d'un projet. Ainsi, les partenaires — BETA, La Teinturerie, Campus des Métiers d'Art et du Design, Chancellerie des Universités de Paris, ILEK (Université de Stuttgart) — de la première édition ont conçu et construit une passerelle en osier qui prendra place dans le parc Richelieu. Un projet international et local qui réouvre le parc aux habitants et offre de nouveaux cheminements.Bonne semaine et écoute !Portrait teaser © comdarchipodcastIngénierie son : Julien Rebours____Si le podcast COM D'ARCHI vous plaît n'hésitez pas :. à vous abonner pour ne pas rater les prochains épisodes,. à nous laisser des étoiles et un commentaire, :-),. à nous suivre sur Instagram @comdarchipodcast pourretrouver de belles images, toujours choisies avec soin, de manière à enrichirvotre regard sur le sujet.Bonne semaine à tous ! Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

In this Com d'Archi, through the voice of Esther, discover the festival ‘Utopies Constructives' (Constructive Utopias) and its realisation: a thirteen meters long wicker footbridge. This footbridge was realised with the collective ‘Construire l'Architecture' (Constructing Architecture).Founded in 2019 by Marc Hymans, Geoffrey Clamour, Priscillia Jorge and Camille Sineau from ‘BETA' (Bureau for Experimental Architecture) and Benjamin Marolleau from the cultural center ‘La Teinturerie', the festival is dedicated to innovation and research in architecture and construction. It takes place in Richelieu, the city named after Cardinal Richelieu who had it built on the model of the ideal city. Thus, the wicker footbridge project not only aims to embody the researches on resource preservation and new building techniques but also to reopen this historic site to its inhabitants. The bridge will be raised over the Mable canal in the park Richelieu, offering new paths into the garden. Its design combines traditional basketry techniques with new technology since its weaving was calculated with the BAYA algorithm. A tool that can predict the ideal braiding for structural shell for architecture.Listen to this innovative project, at the frontier of architecture, engineering, art and history.Image teaser DR © Utopies ConstructivesSound engineering : Julien Rebours___If you like the podcast do not hesitate:. to subscribe so you don't miss the next episodes,. to leave us stars and a comment :-),. to follow us on Instagram @comdarchipodcast to find beautiful images, always chosen with care, so as to enrich your view on the subject.Nice week to all of you ! Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

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In this Com d'Archi, through the voice of Esther, discover the festival ‘Utopies Constructives' (Constructive Utopias) and its realisation: a thirteen meters long wicker footbridge. This footbridge was realised with the collective ‘Construire l'Architecture' (Constructing Architecture).Founded in 2019 by Marc Hymans, Geoffrey Clamour, Priscillia Jorge and Camille Sineau from ‘BETA' (Bureau for Experimental Architecture) and Benjamin Marolleau from the cultural center ‘La Teinturerie', the festival is dedicated to innovation and research in architecture and construction. It takes place in Richelieu, the city named after Cardinal Richelieu who had it built on the model of the ideal city. Thus, the wicker footbridge project not only aims to embody the researches on resource preservation and new building techniques but also to reopen this historic site to its inhabitants. The bridge will be raised over the Mable canal in the park Richelieu, offering new paths into the garden. Its design combines traditional basketry techniques with new technology since its weaving was calculated with the BAYA algorithm. A tool that can predict the ideal braiding for structural shell for architecture.Listen to this innovative project, at the frontier of architecture, engineering, art and history.Image teaser DR © Utopies ConstructivesSound engineering : Julien Rebours___If you like the podcast do not hesitate:. to subscribe so you don't miss the next episodes,. to leave us stars and a comment :-),. to follow us on Instagram @comdarchipodcast to find beautiful images, always chosen with care, so as to enrich your view on the subject.Nice week to all of you ! Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

In French in this CDA S4#23 (Monday online), "Les utopies constructives", an interview in french with Héloïse Leboucher, operational director of the Campus des Métiers d'Arts et du Design, and Marc Hymans, founder of the association Utopies Constructives and BETA – In English in this CDA S4#24 (Wednesday online), "Utopies constructives : the wicker footbridge", a text written by the association Utopies constructives and read by Esther.En français dans le CDA S4#23 (lundi en ligne), "Les utopies constructives", une interview en français de Héloïse Leboucher, directrice opérationnel du Campus des Métiers d'Arts et du Design, et Marc Hymans, fondateur de l'association Utopies Constructives et BETA – En anglais dans le CDA S4#24 (Mercredi en ligne), "Utopies constructives : the wicker footbridge", un texte écrit par l'association Utopies constructives et lu par Esther.___Dans ce Com d'Archi, Héloïse Leboucher et Marc Hymans, s'expriment sur la préservation des ressources, le réemploi des matériaux, et comment trouver de nouveaux modes d'habiter.Au croisement entre architecture, ingénierie, et art, le festival ‘Utopies constructives' est dédié à l'innovation et à la recherche. Fondé en 2019 par Marc Hymans, Geoffrey Clamour, Priscillia Jorge et Camille Sineau de ‘BETA' (Bureau for Experimental Architecture) et Benjamin Marolleau du centre culturel ‘La Teinturerie', il est basé à Richelieu. La ville tient son nom du Cardinal Richelieu qui la fit construire sur le modèle de la cité idéale. Riche de cet héritage historique, ce festival d'expérimentation met en commun les savoirs existants et propose de réfléchir collectivement à de nouveaux savoirs, de nouveaux modes de fabrication. Les ‘Utopies Constructives' offrent un cadre pour penser l'utopie et sa fabrication ; car le métier d'architecte est avant-tout une réalité constructive. Chaque trait dessiné sur le papier à un poids dans la réalité. Dans un contexte où les ressources sont autant une question de disponibilité que de géopolitique, ce festival propose de repenser la consommation des matériaux dès la conception d'un projet. Ainsi, les partenaires — BETA, La Teinturerie, Campus des Métiers d'Art et du Design, Chancellerie des Universités de Paris, ILEK (Université de Stuttgart) — de la première édition ont conçu et construit une passerelle en osier qui prendra place dans le parc Richelieu. Un projet international et local qui réouvre le parc aux habitants et offre de nouveaux cheminements.Bonne semaine et écoute !Portrait teaser © comdarchipodcastIngénierie son : Julien Rebours____Si le podcast COM D'ARCHI vous plaît n'hésitez pas :. à vous abonner pour ne pas rater les prochains épisodes,. à nous laisser des étoiles et un commentaire, :-),. à nous suivre sur Instagram @comdarchipodcast pourretrouver de belles images, toujours choisies avec soin, de manière à enrichirvotre regard sur le sujet.Bonne semaine à tous ! Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

In this episode of Building to Zero, Brendan Wallace sits down with Rachel Armstrong, Professor of Regenerative Architecture, KU Leuven (formerly Newcastle University). The two discuss how experimental architecture can enable buildings to function as a controlled form of nature through the use of life sciences and ecology.Short on time? Watch a snippet of the conversation at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBPdhO7CKZcLearn more about Fifth Wall at https://fifthwall.com/ This podcast is presented for informational purposes only, is not intended to recommend any investment, and is not an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to purchase an interest in any current or future investment vehicle managed or sponsored by Fifth Wall Ventures Management, LLC or its affiliates (collectively, “Fifth Wall”; any such investment vehicle, a “Fund”). Any such solicitation of an offer to purchase an interest will be made by a definitive private placement memorandum or other offering document. Forward-looking statements and opinions as to carbon reduction initiatives and real estate markets or any other matters, as expressed in this presentation, are those of the individual presenters, but are not necessarily the views of Fifth Wall as a firm, and cannot constitute a guarantee of future success or profitable results. As a result, investors should not rely on such forward-looking statements and/or opinions, or on anything else contained in this podcast, in making their investment decisions. Moreover, certain information contained herein may have been obtained from published and non-published sources prepared by other parties and may not have been updated through the date hereof. While such information is believed to be reliable for the purposes for which it is used herein, Fifth Wall does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of such information, and such information has not been independently verified by Fifth Wall. This presentation speaks as of its publication date, and Fifth Wall undertakes no obligation to update any of the information herein. None of the information contained herein has been filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, any securities administrator under any state securities laws or any other domestic or foreign governmental or self-regulatory authority. No such governmental or self-regulatory authority has passed or will pass on the merits of the offering of interests in any Fund or the adequacy of the information contained herein. Any representation to the contrary is unlawful. This communication is intended only for persons resident in jurisdictions where the distribution or availability of this communication would not be contrary to applicable laws or regulations. Any products mentioned in this podcast may not be eligible for sale in some states or countries. Prospective investors should inform themselves as to the legal requirements and tax consequences of an investment in a Fund within the countries of their citizenship, residence, domicile and place of business. No assurances can be given that any of the carbon reduction initiatives described in this presentation will be implemented or, if implemented, will be successful in effecting carbon reductions. Further, no assurances can be given that any Fifth Wall fund or investment vehicle will ultimately be established to invest in these technologies or that such fund or investment vehicle, if established, will successfully identify and execute on investments that meet its stated objectives. Investments targeting carbon emission reductions involve substantial risks and may not ultimately meet Fifth Wall's stated investment objectives. Investors should consult their own financial, tax, legal and other advisors in connection with any proposed investment and should carefully review all disclosures and descriptions of risk factors that are contained in relevant offering materials.

In search of new knowledge practices that can help us make the world livable again, this book takes the reader on a journey across time―from the deep past to the unfolding future. The authors search beyond human knowledge to establish negotiated partnerships with forms of knowledge within the planet itself, examining how we have manipulated these historically through an anthropocentric focus. Rolf Hughes and Rachel Armstrong's book The Art of Experiment: Artistic Research in Experimental Architecture (Routledge, 2020) explores the many different kinds of knowledge, and the diversity of instruments needed to invoke and actuate the potency of human and nonhuman agencies. Four key phases in our ways of knowing are identified: material, strengthening, reconfiguring, and extending, which are exemplified through case studies that take the form of worlding experiments. This pioneering work will inspire architects, artists and designers as well as students, teachers and researchers across arts and design disciplines. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/architecture

In search of new knowledge practices that can help us make the world livable again, this book takes the reader on a journey across time―from the deep past to the unfolding future. The authors search beyond human knowledge to establish negotiated partnerships with forms of knowledge within the planet itself, examining how we have manipulated these historically through an anthropocentric focus. Rolf Hughes and Rachel Armstrong's book The Art of Experiment: Artistic Research in Experimental Architecture (Routledge, 2020) explores the many different kinds of knowledge, and the diversity of instruments needed to invoke and actuate the potency of human and nonhuman agencies. Four key phases in our ways of knowing are identified: material, strengthening, reconfiguring, and extending, which are exemplified through case studies that take the form of worlding experiments. This pioneering work will inspire architects, artists and designers as well as students, teachers and researchers across arts and design disciplines. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

What if we can use architecture to connect our cities and nature in a very direct way. This is the mission of our guest today: Rachel Armstrong, who is investigating what we can call "living architecture". Rachel is a professor of Experimental Architecture at the Newcastle University School of Architecture.  

Rachel Armstrong is Professor of Experimental Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, United Kingdom and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent, KU Leuven, Belgium. Her career is characterised by design thinking as a fusion element for interdisciplinary expertise. She creates multi-disciplinary research teams to address strategic and even “wicked” real world problems through conceptually pioneering design prototypes that advance innovation at the point of implementation. Exploring the transition from an industrial era of architectural design to an ecological one, she pioneers an ecological, technological and humanistic practice called “living architecture” that considers the implications for designing and engineering in a world thrown off balance.In this episode we covered a lot of ground, from design, to architecture and its role in the future of humanity which may include us being an interplanetary species, what is innovation for, reconnecting the concrete jungle with the natural one, the cities of the future, and much more.If you like this conversation, let me know in the reviews! I truly appreciate your support.---Website: http://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/rachel-armstrong/Twitter:  @livingarchitectBooks availabe at Amazon.---HIGHLIGHTS(0:42) Rachel’s trajectory and thoughts about what’s happening in the world.(16:00) Architecture in the 21st century.(25:45) Can we reconnect the concrete jungle with the natural jungle?(33:20) What is the role of education in the way our cities are designed today and in the future?(36:00) In a world of synthetic, artificial technology, can we bring back into the equation natural technologies?(48:00) Who is innovation for?(49:50) What will the city of the future look like?(56:45) What does progress mean in the 21st Century?(1:00:00) What should be our number one priority when it comes to redesigning our living spaces?(1:05:50) Can we design an interplanetary species?(1:13:15) What can space projects teach us about some assumptions that we’ve made about nature?(1:16:50) What are some projects that Rachel is working on right now?(1:21:22) Closing remarks.---Thanks for tuning in for this edition of Through Conversations Podcast!If you find this episode interesting, don't miss out on new conversations and subscribe to the podcast at any podcast feed you use, and leave a review. Also, consider sharing it with someone you think can enjoy this episode. I truly appreciate your support!Keep the conversation going:Instagram:@thruconvpodcastTwitter: @ThruConvPodcastWebsite: throughconversations.com---

Rachel Armstrong is Professor of Experimental Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, United Kingdom and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent, KU Leuven, Belgium. Her career is characterised by design thinking as a fusion element for interdisciplinary expertise. She creates multi-disciplinary research teams to address strategic and even “wicked” real world problems through conceptually pioneering design prototypes that advance innovation at the point of implementation. Exploring the transition from an industrial era of architectural design to an ecological one, she pioneers an ecological, technological and humanistic practice called “living architecture” that considers the implications for designing and engineering in a world thrown off balance.In this episode we covered a lot of ground, from design, to architecture and its role in the future of humanity which may include us being an interplanetary species, what is innovation for, reconnecting the concrete jungle with the natural one, the cities of the future, and much more.If you like this conversation, let me know in the reviews! I truly appreciate your support.---Website: http://livingarchitecturesystems.com/people/rachel-armstrong/Twitter:  @livingarchitectBooks availabe at Amazon.---HIGHLIGHTS(0:42) Rachel’s trajectory and thoughts about what’s happening in the world.(16:00) Architecture in the 21st century.(25:45) Can we reconnect the concrete jungle with the natural jungle?(33:20) What is the role of education in the way our cities are designed today and in the future?(36:00) In a world of synthetic, artificial technology, can we bring back into the equation natural technologies?(48:00) Who is innovation for?(49:50) What will the city of the future look like?(56:45) What does progress mean in the 21st Century?(1:00:00) What should be our number one priority when it comes to redesigning our living spaces?(1:05:50) Can we design an interplanetary species?(1:13:15) What can space projects teach us about some assumptions that we’ve made about nature?(1:16:50) What are some projects that Rachel is working on right now?(1:21:22) Closing remarks.---Thanks for tuning in for this edition of Through Conversations Podcast!If you find this episode interesting, don't miss out on new conversations and subscribe to the podcast at any podcast feed you use, and leave a review. Also, consider sharing it with someone you think can enjoy this episode. I truly appreciate your support!Keep the conversation going:Instagram:@thruconvpodcastTwitter: @ThruConvPodcastWebsite: throughconversations.com---

Vassilios Bartzokas, the Founder & Editor of ARCHISEARCH.gr interviews Pavlos Fereos, Senior Scientist at the Institute of Experimental Architecture of Innsbruck & Partner at Fereos + Associates, who shares his experience on Architectural Education and advises young professionals. This series is a part of Archisearch Portfolio Reviews, taking place within the Archisearch Career Days initiative. This Episode is brought to you by LAKIOTIS.

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Dr. Josh Bongard, Professor in the Morphology, Evolution & Cognition Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont. Ira Pastor Comments: On a recent ideaXme episode, we delved into the fascinating topics of "living architecture" and "living machines" and the principle of evolution in the built environment. Today, we are going continue along this unique area of the life sciences and segue into the area of "living robotics." Xenobots If you’ve been paying attention to the scientific literature over the last few weeks, you may have come across the term "Xenobots" in the press, named after the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis). Xenobots are defined as self-healing micro-bots that are designed and programmed by a computer (via an "evolutionary algorithm") and built from the ground up using living biological cells. A Xenobot is a biological machine under 1 millimeter wide, made of heart cells (which naturally contract) and skin cells (which don’t), which are derived from stem cells harvested from Xenopus frog embryos (an extremely important model in the world of developmental biology). A team composed of scientists from both University of Vermont & Tufts University recently created these novel living machines, which were capable of moving towards a target, picking up a payload, and healing themselves after being cut, which may help increase our understanding how complex organs are formed for purposes of for regenerative medicine, and which one day, might be able to do things like safely deliver drugs inside the human body or remove artery plaques, clean radioactive wastes, collect micro-plastics in the oceans, and even maybe help colonize and terraform planets. Xenobots can walk and swim, survive for weeks without food and work together in groups, can heal on their own and keep working. Dr. Josh Bongard Today I’m joined by one of the amazing members of this Xenobot team. Dr. Josh Bongard, is Professor in the Morphology, Evolution & Cognition Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont. Dr. Bongard completed his bachelors degree in Computer Science from McMaster University, Canada, his M.S. in Evolutionary & Adaptive Systems, University of Sussex, UK, his Ph.D. in Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a post-doc in the Computational Synthesis Laboratory at Cornell University. Evolutionary Robotics Of the many fascinating things that go on in his lab, Dr. Bongard's group is focused on the unique domain of evolutionary robotics. In his evolutionary robotics work, the lab has a goal of directing the evolution of increasingly complex, capable, and autonomous machines to perform a widening array of difficult tasks and asking the broad question of "How can we automatically design a robot with little human intervention?" This work is quite cross-disciplinary in nature merges the disciplines of theoretical biology, embodied cognition, computational neuroscience, as well as psychology and philosophy. He is the co-author of the popular science books entitled "How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence” and "Designing Intelligence: Why Brains Aren't Enough." On this show we hear from Dr. Bongard: About his background, how he developed an interest in computer science, and how he developed a passion for the convergent domains of computers and biology. The principles of "Evolutionary Algorithms" and "Artificial Ontogeny" in developing new organisms with AI. How Xenobot research can inform us as to how cells work together to form intricate complex anatomies. Future applications of Xenobots and how they inform us about non-neural intelligence and cognition dynamics. Credits: Ira Pastor interview video, text, and audio. Follow Ira Pastor on Twitter:@IraSamuelPastor If you liked this interview, be sure to check out ourinterview with Professor Dr. Rachel Armstrong, Professor of Experimental Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, at Newcastle University. Follow ideaXme on Twitter:@ideaxm On Instagram:@ideaxme Find ideaXme across the internet including oniTunes,SoundCloud,Radio Public,TuneIn Radio,I Heart Radio, Google Podcasts, Spotify and more. ideaXme is a global podcast, creator series and mentor programme. Our mission: Move the human story forward!™ ideaXme Ltd.  

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Professor Dr. Rachel Armstrong, Professor of Experimental Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, at Newcastle University. Ira Pastor Comments: On past shows, as we've been navigating the biological architecture of life, we've spent time taking about the important differences between the properties of machines, and that of living organisms. One, the machine, representing a system of parts working together, each with a definite function, performing a particular task; all of which is organised, assembled, maintained, and repaired by external agents. In contrast to the organism, whose activities are directed toward the maintenance of its own organization, acting on its own behalf: self-organising, self-producing, self-maintaining, self-regenerating, all while undergoing continual bidirectional interaction and communications with the many levels of the hierarchy which it sits within, in order to maintain the integrity of the whole, as well as the parts. Today we are going to take this concept of "organicism", and apply it beyond our usual focus of the human body. Professor Dr. Rachel Armstrong Professor Dr. Rachel Armstrong is Professor of Experimental Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, at Newcastle University. Professor Armstrong completed her PhD at The Barlett School of Architecture, and while conducting experimental work at The University of Southern Denmark, first explored the concept of "living architecture," delving deeper into the possibility that metabolisms in the natural world could be translated into more sustainable architectural practices, and her current work focuses on establishing the conditions for "living architectures" which couple the computational properties of the natural world with building structures and infrastructures. In addition to being Director and Founder of the Experimental Architecture Group(EAG), whose work has been published, exhibited and performed at a variety of international venues, she is also Coordinator for the Living Architecture project, which is an ongoing collaboration of experts from universities in the UK, Spain, Italy and Austria, which has focused integrating fascinating next-generation, bio-reactor systems that can work synergisticlly within these novel architectures, to do things such a clean wastewater, generate oxygen, provide electrical power and generate usable forms of biomass, so in essence recreating this bidirectional flow where the architecture not only takes resources from the environment, but gives back. Dr. Armstrong's Publications Dr. Armstrong is widely published in both academic and popular press. She has written a number of academic books including: Liquid Life: On Non-Linear Materiality; Soft Living Architecture: An Alternative View of Bio-informed Practice; Star Ark: A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship; and Vibrant Architecture: Matter as a CoDesigner of Living Structures. Her fiction books includeInvisible EcologiesandOrigamy. On this show we will hear from Professor Armstrong: About her background, how she developed an interest in the natural world, biotechnology and synthetic biology, and the fascinating domain of "living architecture." A discussion of "bottom up" versus "top down" architectural design thinking, such as using metabolic materials (properties of living systems) versus Victorian technologies. A discussion of "Proto Cells" or the "21st century unit of design," as well as a discussion of "Living Machines." A vision towards "Big Picture" / Moonshot ideas such as the repair of atolls; land reclamation (Venice); desertification. A discussion of astro-biological implications of such technology. Finally, a discussion of the "Intelligence of Nature." Credits: Ira Pastor interview video, text, and audio. Follow Ira Pastor on Twitter:@IraSamuelPastor If you liked this interview, be sure to check out ourinterview with Professor Dr. Kelly Drew from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Follow ideaXme on Twitter:@ideaxm On Instagram:@ideaxme Find ideaXme across the internet including oniTunes,SoundCloud,Radio Public,TuneIn Radio,I Heart Radio, Google Podcasts, Spotify and more. ideaXme is a global podcast, creator series and mentor programme. Our mission: Move the human story forward!™ ideaXme Ltd.

This week is with Rachel Armstrong, Professor of Experimental Architecture at the Department of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University. Rachel Armstrong leads Metabolism research in developing artificial biology systems showing qualities of near-living systems. Armstrong is the author of the books Origamy and Invisible Ecologies.

Welcome to the Cakes & Ale Book Club! Every month we will be bringing you a mix of discussions and interviews about recent genre fiction we've been reading. This month, we cover Origamy by Rachel Armstrong.Origamy is the story of Mobius, an extra-dimensional being who is part of a 'circus troupe' of weavers able to explore and manipulate the fabric of space-time. This original and surreal science fiction tale follows Mobius' attempt to learn the mysterious art of origamy and face down the dark menace which has appeared to threaten the very threads of the universe. Origamy fuses mythic modes of storytelling with cutting-edge scientific concepts. Beautifully written and brimming with ideas, this book is unlike any other we have read in a long time.We give you our thoughts on the novel and bring you an interview with Rachel, who tells us about her academic research as Professor of Experimental Architecture at Newcastle University and how her multi-disciplinary approach imbues both her science and her science fiction.Time for Cakes and Ale, a podcast featuring geeky ramblings with Becks & Eeson, and also home to "Time for Cherry Pie and Coffee", a Twin Peaks podcast, and "The Tally Ho", a Prisoner podcast.Follow us on Twitter @TFCAALike us on FacebookVisit our Website See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Catch up with this discussion on architecture in outer space, in which a panel of experts explores the questions extra-terrestrial living raises for technology as an industry and humanity as a whole. Speakers: Rachel Armstrong – professor of Experimental Architecture at Newcastle University, and author of Star Ark: A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship Irene Gallou – Head of the Specialist Modelling Group at Foster+Partners Jorge Mañes Rubio – artist at the Advanced Concepts Team, European Space Agency (ESA) and designer of The Moon Temple Victor Buchli (chair) – Professor of Material Culture, UCL; author of An Archaeology of the Immaterial; editor of Home Cultures

Hope interviews Rachel Armstrong, Professor of Experimental Architecture at Newcastle University, at the Barbican Gardens, London. What if you could paint your bedroom with a color that could “eat” the carbon dioxide you breathe out every night? What if instead of using gas or oil heat to make your mother’s tea, you could “fire up” a device that used living things to boil the water? Dr. Rachel Armstrong, a medical doctor who has a PhD in architecture, is working on these sorts of “what-if” technologies. “Our homes are not just part of our well-being, but a resource,” she told the Toronto Star newspaper. “Imagine [that] your house could feed you and clean your water.” If we could create tiny organisms that can grow, create heat, and trap sunlight, we could use them in our homes and buildings. Today she’s developing protocells, chemical agents that act like living cells and that could be used to build new structures and restore old ones we want to save. Her Future Venice project proposes using protocells to rescue the Italian coastal city, built centuries ago on wooden beams, anchored deep in the lagoon. Many of those ancient supports are rotting away— her proposal is to cover the underwater supports with limestone and grow an artificial reef. And save Venice from sinking into the Adriatic Sea forever. But Dr. Armstrong is also looking way, way ahead. Working with the Icarus Interstellar, she is devising a new kind of environmental design for a starship research platform, to be put in orbit around the Earth within 100 years! What does she think is most important for kids who want to design starships and decide what the world will be like 100 years from now? Don’t worry about the right or wrong way to learn or to do things, she stresses. Our imaginations are the most valuable tool we have for designing the future. “Nurture your creativity,” she says, “and find something that matters!”