Applying Virtuality: At the limits of our geometrically trained imagination and reasoning

When Michel Serres holds in his recent book Hominescence (2004) that “Nul ne vit sur place”, that nobody’s life is locally determined any more, much more is implied than the simple observation so obvious to anyone aware of the media evolution and its upheavals throughout the 20th century—the recognition that in our everyday life we virtualize, with increasing success, our dependence on local circumstances. Taken seriously from the perspective of theory, the implication of this observation is calling the end of the road for the grid as a formal matrix for the organization of thought.

This is an introductory lecture by Vera Bühlmann on the theory stance of the laboratory of applied virtuality, which views design as a third methodological approach to dealing with problems next to those of formalization and interpretation.

Listen to the lecture here: MAS10_0M_bühlmannM8k16b

slides: IAV_VERA_KURZ_sept2010 pdf