Venue: B117 Theatre, Melbourne School of Design, Masson Road, University of Melbourne
Presenters: Professor John Woods
By regarding buildings as inanimate, we accept them as fundamentally dissipative. This is because the passive idea of ‘conserving’ building reflects the pessimistic logic of classical thermodynamics.
In discussing ways to re-direct the current Building Information Modeling (BIM) agenda, John draws upon theories of living systems furnished by Maturana & Varela and Jakob von Uexküll. He asks whether BIM could be developed to make future buildings come to life?
By contrast, the life sciences depict living creatures as systems that maintain their collective survival by resisting entropy. The reason why thermostats and clocks are the dumbest gadgets on the planet is because they are expressly designed to ignore their own role and context. If BIM files were to be interactively updated by the metabolic states of a given building, this might help it to acquire a level of consciousness that includes its own presence and interdependency with the habitat.
Ultimately, perhaps living buildings will learn to share tasks with their inhabitants on a symbiotic basis.
from
https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/6292-dean-s-lecture-series-some-criteria-for-mapping-consciousness-in-living
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