Science Fiction Meets Architecture Part Two: Megamalls and London in 2080

Guest Speaker: Sci-fi author Vernor Vinge and UCL professor of architecture Marjan Colletti Date: May 25th, 2016 Time: 10:30am - Noon Location: Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego Host: Clarke Center for Human Imagination

DESCRIPTION/ABSTRACT: This event is the second in a series on Science Fiction Meets Architecture in London 2080, focusing on Megamalls. The event is organized by the Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD, and UCL's Bartlett School of Architecture.  Speakers Vernor Vinge and Marjan Colletti will design and discuss a mega mall in London, 2080. Size is negotiable. Speakers assume the singularity has not yet arrived but sensors, AI, and robots are ubiquitous. We invite you to join the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination and The Bartlett School of Architecture for a jointly hosted, two-part transatlantic lecture series on designing for the future. Both events are free and open to the public. The conversation will be moderated by Clarke Center director Sheldon Brown and Cognitive Science professor David Kirsh, both on the UC San Diego faculty. Kirsh is also the organizers of this event on the UCSD side, jointly with Prof. Alan Penn and Ava Fatah from the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London in the UK. SPEAKER BIO: VERNOR VINGE has won five Hugo Awards, including one for each of his last three novels, Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and Rainbow's End (2006). Known for his rigorous hard-science approach to his science fiction, he became an iconic figure among cybernetic scientists with the publication in 1981 of his novella "True Names," which is considered a seminal, visionary work of Internet fiction and cyberspace. Dr. Vinge is Emeritus professor of mathematics and computer science and also noted, among other things, for introducing the term "the singularity." MARJAN COLLETTI is an architect, educator, researcher, and author. He is currently an Associate Professor in Architecture and Post-digital Practice and Director of Computing at The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL London, Chair Professor of Building Design and Construction, founder of REX|LAB, Head of the Institute of Experimental Architecture at Innsbruck University, and co-founder and co-principal of the studio marcosandmarjan in London. He has published various books on design-research, including Digital Poetics: An Open Theory of Design-Research in Architecture and the 80th anniversary edition of AD, titled Exuberance: New Virtuosity in Contemporary Architecture.   MORE INFORMATION: For more information, see below or visit imagination.ucsd.edu