Milovann Yanatchkov (FR)
"Fork a house!" Open Source Architecture - Workshop
see this pageCities and architectures: towards open artworks? - talk outline
as part of 'Mardis de l'Architecture' monthly meetings at Maison de l'ArchitectureRecently, the French government adopted the "3-Strikes" Hadopi Law, meant to fight piracy on the Internet. This law has been raising hot debates around the issues of creation and authors rights. At the moment the discussions converge to new modes of production and distribution. Formerly confined to software only, the ideas behind the Free Software movement now go beyond the computer realm: collaborative work, open projects, transformation of the status of authors, new symetric relations between producers and consumers. It's time to bring this debate to the world of urban planning and architecture. This talk will question the notion of the open artwork: crossbreeding, reusing and hybridization of projects through examples from art history, the evolution of cities, public space and contemporary issues of sustainable development.
"Bottom-up! scriptable design" - talk outline
"Form follows function". In the first half of the twentieth century, the pioneers of modern architecture assert the concept of rationality in architecture: the form must reflect the use and it must result from the function that has been given. Nearly a century later, parametric and algorithm designs seem to echo back these principles: the function - mathematical and programmed - generates the form at the moment when the code that defines it is being run.
Milovann will present the algorithmic modeling experiments he made with (Fluxus) and questions, beyond rationality, the share of bugs, of randomness and surprise surrounding this form of creation.
Biography
Milovann Yanatchkov (born 1973) lives and works in Paris. As an architect and multi-media artist, he explores the issue of creative and digital processes in the fields of architecture, painting and computer. As an independent architect he participates in project design for architecture and urban planning bureaus: project of urban prospective at La Défense (INterland / Architecture Biennale in Venice 2008), Velodrome for Madrid 2016 Olympics application (Plan01/winner project), 40 nursery cots in Paris (BP architecture/in progress). He also makes 3D images, animation movies and virtual tours for the representation and assistance in projects design. Self-taught programmer, he works exclusively with Free Software and is interested in computer languages as a medium of creation (parametric modelling and live-coding).