Cortical Plasticity

Cortical Plasticity: is the changing of neurons, the organization of their networks and their function via new experiences.

Could the near future for architects all be in the mind? With further neurological metamorphosis. Dan Farmer suggests that spatial awareness and experience could be stipulated by cortical plasticity, stimulated by electrical impulses. With this shift to internalised space perception, the disciplines of architecture and cognitive science become blurred as the relationship between the object and its environment dissolves.

L.A.W.u.N Projects

The Invisible University, a collaboration between the EXP/University of Westminister and the Architectureal Association, speculates on the 'dis-urban': new effects on the post-print, post-digital landscape at a local and global level.

The photo above explores the architecture of the 'New Nature'. The pastoral scene belongs to a series of adjusted photographs that take the atmospheric effects associated with the Invisible University and bring them to an out-into-the-open spatial ambience. For the nomad in the foreground there is neither initerior nor exterior: clothed in electro-social camouflage she dissolves inot the ravine, gazing into its luminous, mist air while learning the line and musing on the unique phenomena of distance versus memory. Who knew that wet-look, high-tech, liquid-crystal filaments would find a soul amte in a constellation of knitted stretch jersey, constricting and expanding with each movement faster and everywhere, closer to the sky and further from the ground, save for a shadow flung by a passing cloud.

The Carbon Casino

Richard Bevan re-imagines Heathrow Airport in 2030. In an age where Personal Carbon Allowances (PCA's) have become the dominant currency, the facilities at Heathrow are turned over to a carbon casino that affords airside and landside customers the opportunities to participate in gambling with the relevant tax breaks.

Pictures Above: The Carbon Casino, Dealer robots used on the gaming podiums within the Carbon Casino