Digital Doubles: The Major Agency of Minor Bits

10.01.2023

AD Special Issue: Architectures of Refusal

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Lucía Jalón Oyarzun, A paradoxically accurate 43% of blurred uncertainty, 2022. Google’s Cloud Vision API applied to Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The tower of Babel (c. 1563) confirms that there is a building in the image with a 57% certainty.
Lucía Jalón Oyarzun, A paradoxically accurate 43% of blurred uncertainty, 2022. Google’s Cloud Vision API applied to Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The tower of Babel (c. 1563) confirms that there is a building in the image with a 57% certainty.

In a world that seeks to describe, codify and quantify everything, and particularly our viscerality and its interactions with our actual and digital environments, can we find interstitial spaces, currently unseen, unobserved and unlegislated, where we might be able to create minor architectures capable of blooming?

Published in Architectural Design’s Special Issue: Architectures of Refusal.
Edited by Jill Stoner and Ozayr Saloojee.
Volume 92, Issue 6, November/December 2022

30.06.2022

Del Camino al Circuito: Semióticas de la Carretera

Tesla autopilot video
An architectural, technical and cultural analysis of the road as architectural entity. From the link between road, landscape and orientation until its transformation into a circuit where ecologies of asignifying signs nudge the vehicle and its passive passengers, we consider the role and perception of landscape, as well as its effects on the architectural agency… View Article
04.10.2023

Mapeando la escritura de mujeres para la recuperación y 
activación de prácticas arquitectónicas menores:
 Niña, mujer, otras de Bernardine Evaristo

Virginia Woolf Diaries
A lo largo de la historia, muchas mujeres han puesto en práctica saberes arquitectónicos ligados al cuerpo y el habitar. Saberes menores y contrasaberes que se alimentan de lo circunstancial y experimental, operando en los estrechos márgenes y puntos ciegos de los lenguajes, estructuras y saberes mayores, a los que a su vez transforman. Estos… View Article
10.01.2022

Nothing but a few signs, like stars in an immense black night: clandestinity and night-faring practices in the Underground Railroad

Edwin Hergesheimer, Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States. Compiled from the census of 1860. Washington: Henry S. Graham, 1861
The text focuses on how clandestinity, understood as the articulation of spaces of secrecy and invisibility, is traversed by a singular form of architectural knowledge centered on embodied practices. A set of minor know-hows playing with the lines of the visible world while understanding the material effects of individual and collective bodies, all founded on… View Article