Superposition of Data-trees + Territorial Generating

Brazil

An article by Neil Brun on Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

Of particular interest to me is the section called "Control: You are being watched...".

Namely, Tuttle, the electrician who operates outside of the formal municipal territory.

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Imperfect Interference

Systematic City

Videos by artist Max Zhestkov

http://vimeo.com/5000098

http://vimeo.com/11486791

THE SELFISH CITY

The city thinks about only for its own good. It is evolving like a ‘selfish gene’, the term used by Richard Dawkins. He also coins the term ‘meme’ for a unit of human cultural evolution analogous to the gene, suggesting that such ‘selfish’ replication may also model human culture. Just like a gene, there is no city that looks after or considers its neighbor; they only think about themselves.
In the information society of the twenty first century, the most valuable resource will not be iron or oil but ‘culture’. Everything you can see in present days is inherited from the past. In this sense, the city itself is an accumulation of culture. The fundamental concept is the meme, analogous to the gene in biological genetics, an element of culture that can be the basis of culture variation, selection, and evolution. It grows like trees, branches to branches.
The city will absorb everything towards the center, and will grow by doing it repeatedly. Interestingly, the ‘selfish’ action of cities leads to ‘unselfish’ actions by organisms of society.

Maysam, Development of Supermodel city

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PARASITES!!!!!!!!!!

Centralizing Conditions + Shedding Identities

Mind Zone - Mazdak Jafarian

City is a mind-zone that flows through the minds of its people. The physicality of city is in interaction with interpretations of its people, their memories, and their wills. City changes the minds of people and it’s being changed by these minds. Evolution, proliferation, growth, and metamorphosis of every individual affects the behavior of system.
In contrast with this order, the people deal with not only the physicality of city and visible constructions but also always behave unconsciously according to the invisible organizations which control them: a sort of global order which manipulates and regulates the city.
In this regard, city is a dialectical phenomenon which is going back and forward between being subjective and objective. Since the designer cannot and should not design the minds of people, and since the city is nothing more than minds of the citizens, city cannot be designed as an object by architect. Any decision for formulation, behavior and function of this organism is affected by the behavior of city’s mutating components. City is an interactive and ever-mutating interface between designer/organizer’s mind and people’s thoughts, emotions, and decisions.

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Baking color in Grasshopper

Hi guys,

I have got several useful components for backing colors and materials. You can found them under Maysam folder in DropBox. Also there are other vb.net scripts for creating fractal and recursive function.

Here you can find more practical component.

http://www.giuliopiacentino.com/grasshopper-tools/

Maysam Ghaffari - Self-organization

Super model city offer an alternative approach to rethinking about cities, how they are formed and how they function. It is an integrated whole system which can exchange energy, matter and information. They are self organize and can evaluate themselves and learn from its experiences in order to develop a better conceptualization of organizational life.

In this context, city is defined as interwoven layers of communication and coordination between micro and macro level. Energy and information flow among the different elements and develop a number of dynamic processes which affect the cities’ organizational behavior. This system involves inputs, processing and outputs of energy and information which leads to the further development of self-organization.

Designing a city begins with investigation of certain question in individual relationship between components and data structure. This dynamic network structure deals with the production, distribution and consumption of data in a particular system. This interwoven data structure helps us to understand and analyze the city behavioral patterns both quantitatively and qualitatively for prediction of future behavior.