Bjarke Ingels spoke at Parsons and presented his amazing works as well as a vision for the future.
Bjarke Ingels proposing that we're "not designers of 2d or 3d objects" but rather "designers of ecosystems" that "channel not only the flow of people, but also the flow of resources through economy and ecology."
Hedonistic Sustainability
World Expo - collaboration with Ai Weiwei on the installation of the "Remote" installation for Little Mermaid. "Entire system spent less energy than the coffee machine." "Half art and half architecture" emphasis on how to "increase art quality."
"If Hollywood starts ripping off sustainable architecture," maybe "we're moving towards hedonistic architecture."
Architects are at the center for discussing how to redesign the service of our planet so that it fits the way we want to live.
Yes is more:
"Less is more." Mies van der Rohe - minimalistic aesthetic
"Less is bore." - Robert Venturi
Evolution: "Rather than revolution against society, ... evolution with society."
Architectural Alchemy - the mystique behind, or rather in front of, design.
A waste to energy plant - BIG proposed a ski resort on top of the power plant.
Pragmatic Utopia: "Economically and ecologically sustainable." "You make it socially sustainable because it gives the city a public space and social function that would otherwise be nonexistent." "Pragmatic utopian master plan for the future."
As an architect he looks at multiple domains to develop metrics to create qualitative experiential places. That is something most service designers don't do very well. Space is gorgeous, has an emotional impact. Service design we don't place emphasis on changing the physical space. So there is a need to emphasize the emotion of the experience.
Guest Lecture by Bjarke Ingels at Parsons, March 10, 2011, Kellen Auditorium, Sheila Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue.