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  • Petervan’s Delicacies – 4 March 2020

    An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About the four-period sequence in creating (architecture): Modularity, Computational Design, Parametricism and finally Artificial Intelligence. A real delicacy! About simulating traffic with AI around SF Golden Gate. Fascinating! About the return of simple/more complex ways to… Read more

  • When my future has to catch up with my present

    The “collapse of time” was an important meme in the Techonomy 2019 session on Super-Evolution, the idea that startups can now harness rapid prototyping and vast pools of data to develop radically new business models quickly and at scale (video here) Super-Evolution is about creating more – dramatically more – options. Invented by AI, aka… Read more

  • Petervan Delicacies – 18 Feb 2020

    An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. Irregular it is: just one week since the previous edition, but this week was, well… special. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About doppelgänger and digital twins, urban glimpses and drawing data. The broader context of data about cities, models of cities,… Read more

  • Refik Anadol – Beautiful Speculations and Data Dramatisations

    This post is a semi-transcript of a fantastic talk “Space in the mind of a machine” by media artist Refik Anadol. My post is not intended as a literal transcript, but rather as a collection of – often poetic – idea clusters of Refik’s talk. None of the ideas are mine, I just tried to… Read more

  • Petervan’s Delicacies – 12 Feb 2020

    An irregular, unpredictable, incoherent, unfocused set of mind-sparks that got me thinking. A quite eclectic harvest this time. From solid internet cultural insights to visual art experiments powered by AI. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! People, institutions, and possibilities of all kinds can be trapped inside enclosures on the Internet. Doc Searls describes… Read more

  • Spacial Trash and Patrimony

    Another rabbit hole bringing together some reflections on creativity, demolition, patrimony, and poetic ruination, as so often in this blog inspired by architectural insights and metaphors. My attention was triggered by an article in the Jan 11, 2020 weekend edition of De Standaard, a Flemish newspaper. The article was about landscaping, and more specifically “ontharding”… Read more