Eugenia Fratzeskou Knihy

The study explores the evolving roles of spatial praxis within contemporary urbanism, addressing challenges in representation across various disciplines such as philosophy, cartography, and architecture. It emphasizes innovative design approaches for hybrid urban spaces, focusing on interactive flows and the experiences of urban neo-nomads. The work highlights the significance of physically manifesting these hybrid environments, presenting both opportunities and challenges for contemporary architecture and related fields, including media art and urban studies.

Computers are considered to be highly ordered and overtly deterministic devices, offering predetermined outcomes. Nevertheless, the algorithmic paradoxes of an architectural software derive from the complexity of its infrastructure and cause non-linear processes of diagramming. According to the architect Bernard Tschumi, any "transformational sequence" (animation) is a kind of "operative drawing": a "prescriptive" and thus, non-descriptive activity. Nevertheless, a "transformational sequence" is not, by definition, "operative". Operative drawing emerges when the uncertainties of our reasoning, spatial perception and the paradoxes of digital diagramming, are creatively exposed. This can only happen through the superimposition, but not the material construction or cinematic projection, of a virtual spatial configuration onto its pre-existing actual referent. This inter-passage between a virtual (absolute, alienating) Cartesian space and an actual place is where the relationship between the digital and physical boundaries of built architecture can be delineated. Entering this inter-passage is entering a diagram itself: a destabilising, interpretative activity in progress.

Este livro investiga como a metamaterialidade pode inspirar processos artísticos inovadores, redefinindo matéria e realidade. Explora a conexão filosófica entre "dobra" e "desprogramação", unindo ciência e arte, e propõe novos métodos que elevam a relação entre pesquisa, criatividade e inovação em diversas disciplinas.