IN CONVERSATION – Adam Nocek on Artificial Ecologies and Ecological Architectures
April 24, 2024
Join us as Adam Nocek, Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Technology and Science and Technology Studies in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University, discusses the shaping impact of architecture and design during his talk titled “Artificial Ecologies and Ecological Architectures.”
This talk unpacks one of the central paradoxes in our time of radical unsustainment: that ecological systems are design artifacts just as much as design artifacts—buildings, cities, cars, infrastructures—are ecological systems. Nocek argues that in order to address many of the ecological challenges facing our planet, we need to embrace this paradox rather than see it as a problem to solve.
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Time:
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Cabaret Theatre
Price:
Adults $35
Students (13-25 with student ID) $24
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Meet Our Presenter
Adam Nocek is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Technology and Science and Technology Studies in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University. He is also the Founding Director of ASU’s Center for Philosophical Technologies. Nocek has published widely on the philosophy of media and science; speculative philosophy (especially Whitehead); design philosophy, history, and practice; and critical and speculative theories of computational media. He recently published Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology (Minnesota, 2021), and is working on his next monograph, Governmental Design: On Algorithmic Autonomy. Nocek is the co-editor (with Tony Fry) of Design in Crisis: New Worlds, Philosophies and Practices, The Lure of Whitehead (with Nicholas Gaskill), along with several other collections and special issues, including a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (with Cary Wolfe) titled, “Ontogenesis Beyond Complexity.” He is the editor of Techniques Journal and is a visiting researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Nocek previously held the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Professorship.
Education
Ph.D. University of Washington
M.A. Boston College
B.A. Honours, McGill University
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