Exhibition: CLOUD OF THOUGHTS

Cloud of Thoughts is a participatory exhibition and alternative gathering place to meet with other people and exchange ideas about our future built environment. xLAB asked experts in both architecture and technology to provide answers to three key questions about the these two disciplines and their dynamic intersection. Cloud of Thoughts presented visitors with bold answers to these questions and encouraged to create a virtual dialog by responding to the same questions in real-time. Each response is collected and presented to the next visitor, and the subsequent visitors there after. The accumulation of thoughtful replies from various individuals reinforces xLAB’s mission to share ideas between fields, people, and places. Cloud of Thoughts virtually manifests a thought “cloud” in physical and virtual space, and also grows a continuous community within the gallery of Okamura Design Space R.

Location Tokyo, Japan
Dates July – August, 2017
Exhibition Design Atelier Hitoshi Abe
Production Design WOW, Inc.

QUESTIONS

1. Do you find Architecture relevant in your future? Why or why not?
In today’s fast-paced and technologically driven world of apps, augmented realities, sharing economies and on-demand subscriptions, consider whether Architecture is still important in the future of our built environment.

2. How do you describe Architecture today?
Currently, the professional definition of Architecture isolates the discipline from continuously challenging disciplinary boundaries to reveal interesting and pluralistic possibilities in collaboration with other fields.

3. Do you think technology will change Architecture?
Architecture has advanced disciplinary boundaries in the past by mastering technology; but consider whether Architecture will need to change technology for future progress, or if technology’s exponential advancements will supersede Architecture.

PARTICPANTS

Shinobu Nakanishi // Miraikan National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
Yasushi Ikeda // Keio Unv. – School of Media and Governance
Tom Wiscombe // Tom Wiscombe Architecture
Guvenc Ozel // Ozel Office
Kevin Meredith // The WESEE Collective
Yuki Tazaki // WOW, Inc.
Casey Reas // Visual Artist
Paul Nakazawa // MASS Design Group
Dumëne Comploi // Walt Disney Imagineering
Kaz Yoneda //Bureau 0-1, Inc.
Julia Koerner //JK Design GmbH
Kivi Sotamaa //Ateljé Sotamaa
Jesse Reiser // RUR Architecture DPC
Andrew Kovacs // O.K.
Erin & Ian Besler //Besler & Sons, LLC
Mamoru Kano // WOW, Inc.
Marcos Novak // UCSB – transLAB
Jason Payne // Hirsuta
Taro Igarashi // Architecture Critic and Historian, Tohoku Unv.
Michael Osman // Architecture Critic and Historian, UCLA
Neil Denari // NMDA
Kengo Kuma // Kengo Kuma & Associates
Yasuaki Onoda // Architectural Planner and Researcher, Tohoku University
George Abe // UCLA – Anderson School of Management
Junya Ishigami //junya.ishigami+associates
Hernan Diaz Alonso // XEFIROTARCH
Jimenez Lai // Bureau Spectacular
Shohei Matsukawa // Keio Unv. – Dept. of Environment and Information Studies
Tatsuya Matsui // Flower Robotics
Toshiki Hirano // Toshiki Hirano Design
Martha Thorne // Dean, IE School of Architecture and Design, Madrid, Pritzker Architectural Prize
Keisuke Toyoda // Noiz Architects
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto // Atelier Bow-Wow
Jeffrey Kipnis // Architectural Critic and Theorist, Ohio State University
Sou Fujimoto // Sou Fujimoto Architects
Thom Mayne // Morphosis
Greg Lynn // Greg Lynn FORM