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Speculation on Objects, Realism and the Arts; A View into the Mind of Graham Harman

2018-11-14T09:00:00-05:00

Soapbox is a weekly series delivering a curated set of lectures, talks and symposia concerning contemporary themes but explored through the archives of lectures past and present. With the plethora of lectures, talks, symposia and panels occurring world wide on a daily basis, how can we begin to keep up and if not, find them once they are gone? Soapbox looks to assemble a selection of recent, archived and outlier lectures surrounding a given theme. Soapbox looks to curate this never-ending library of ideas into an engaging and diverse list of thoughts and provocations. Soapbox is just that, a collection aimed at discovering the occasional needle in a haystack.

This week we take a look at Graham Harman along with his Object Oriented Ontology which has recently taken the architecture world by storm.

Soapbox: Aesthetics

2018-01-12T09:00:00-05:00

Object Objections

2018-01-09T09:00:00-05:00

Like many of their contemporaries, the Vienna-based studio iheartblob have taken an interest in emerging schools of philosophy, notably object-oriented ontology and thermodynamic theory. But, unlike many peers, they do so with a critical remove. In this excerpt from their project for Ed, iheartblob designs a series of alluring “objects” meant to enchant, but also reflect on the “crises of thought” they find dominate architecture today. The collective plays with new and popular ideas in architecture as if they were materials, engaging seriously with each while remaining at a distance from full immersion. Their designs are rarely seen in plan and section but rather expressed using renders, mixed realities (physical and augmented), and animations in order to reflect their Lagrangian derivations.