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Animating Biophilosophy:
Spacestation | Julia Koerner (Los Angeles)
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Inspired by Rene Daalder's spacecollective.org, the project addresses architecture, landscape and urban constraints of extra terrestrial design. While researching NASA's suburban proposals for space colonies of 1970s and the development of contemporary space tourism, I was working on outer atmosphere, gravity and weightlessness within an architectural design topic. Circular sections define the architectural spatial organization in zero gravity and are developed from a biological research into human vertebra as well as historic architectural precedent Palladio's Villa Rotonda. The combination of soft and hard elements within the organic structure relate to bone and flesh as in the human body. The design explores new horizons within built structures in outer space and generates enticing spatial qualities and enigmatic visual effects in the interior space.
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Animating Biophilosophy
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Edited by A.J. Nocek, Phillip Thurtle
Introduction: Vitalizing Thought
Phillip Thurtle and A.J. Nocek
i-xi
On Ascensionism
Eugene Thacker
1-7
Biomedia and the Pragmatics of Life in Architectural Design
A.J. Nocek
8-61
Concepts have a life on their own: Biophilosophy, History and Structure in Georges Canguilhem
Henning Schmidgen
62-97
Animation and Vitality
Phillip Thurtle
98-117
dowhile
Elizabeth Buschmann
Currents
Stephanie Maxwell
Animation and Vitality
Phillip Thurtle
Animation and the Medium of Life
Deborah Levitt
118-161
Finding Animals with Plant Intelligence
Richard Doyle
162-183
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