TTF 2020 – Introduction by Benjamin H. Bratton

Online public presentations of The Terraforming 2020 program showcasing the results of five months of research, investigation and creative exploration.

Benjamin Bratton

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Digital movement parties: a comparative analysis of the technopolitical cultures and the participation platforms of the Movimento 5 Stelle and the Piratenpartei

The Pirate Party of Germany (PPG) and the Italian 5-Star Movement (5SM) are two digital movement parties that share several ideological features, including their roots in anti-establishment movements, their refusal to position themselves on the Left-Right spectrum, and their belief that the Internet increases the capacity of ordinary citizens for self-government and self-representation. To this end, both parties have adopted online participation platforms, which allow their members to contribute to the development of the party program, vote on strategic decisions, and propose policy initiatives. Given these affinities and given that both parties begun their political ascendancy in the same years, their antipodal political destinies – ascendency to power for the 5SM, downfall for the PPG – are all the more striking. This article accounts for this divergence by showing how the technopopulist orientation of both parties conceals in fact radically different conceptions of political participation and internal party democracy. To this end, it considers the role that different technopolitical cultures have played in shaping the organization of these two parties in their early stages, and how the subsequent adoption and use of online participation platforms has led to internal strife and bitter disputes within the PPG and increasing centralization within the 5SM.

Marco Deseriis

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An Introduction to Civic Design

Article written by british architect Stanley Davenport Adshead in which he introduces the concept of Civic Design

S. D. Adshead

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The Stack: Design and Geopolitics in the Age of Planetary-Scale Computing

Public lecture by Benjamin Bratton, on October 29, 2014 at the Simon Fraser University, Canada. From NSA surveillance to Jihadist social media and the Sino-Google Wars, computation has become more than a type of machine, it is a global infrastructure that is changing not only how governments govern, but what government even is in the first place. We need to take a step back and see a big picture that is different from what was predicted. A new kind of political geography is emerging before our eyes. We should view smart grids, cloud computing, mobile software and smart cities, universal addressing systems, ubiquitous computing and robotics not as unrelated genres of computation but as forming a larger and coherent whole. Together they constitute an accidental megastructure called The Stack. This is not only a planetary-scale computing system, it is also a new architecture for how we divide up the world into sovereign spaces. The Nation-State isn't going away but it is evolving into a Cloud platform, and perhaps vice versa. This poses extraordinary challenges for design and geopolitics. By seeing the whole we stand a better chance of designing a system we will want to inhabit. In this talk, we'll map The Stack we have and sketch The Stack-to-come. Speaker Bio: Benjamin H Bratton is a theorist whose work spans philosophy, art and design. He is associate professor of visual arts and director of the Center for Design and Geopolitics at the University of California, San Diego. Starting in summer 2014, he is also professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. His book The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, is forthcoming from MIT Press. See www.bratton.info and, on twitter, @bratton

Benjamin Bratton

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Design in The Age of Biology: Shifting From a Mechanical-Object Ethos to an Organic-Systems Ethos

Written for Interactions magazine by Hugh Dubberly.

Hugh Dubberly

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Wicked Problems in Design Thinking

This essay is based on a paper presented at "Colloque Recherches sur le Design: Incitations, Implications, Interactions," the first French university symposium on design research held October 1990 at l'Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Compiegne, France.

Richard Buchanan

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Um prometeu cauteloso? Alguns passos rumo a uma filosofia do design (com especial atenção a Peter Slotedijk)

Palestra proferida por Bruno Latour no encontro Networks of Design, da Design History Society. Falmouth, Cornualha, 3 de setembro de 2008. Tradução de Daniel B. Portugal e Isabela Fraga. Esta tradução foi publicada na revista Agitprop n. 58 (ano 6). Ela pode ser acessada diretamente no site da revista: www.agitprop.com.br

Bruno Latour

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A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design (with Special Attention to Peter Sloterdijk)

The very spread of the word "design" from daily objects to cities and ecosystems, is taken here as a symptom of an interesting switch in the theory of action that has been typical of modernism. The paper review five connotations of the verb “to design » and analyze them as an alternative to the notion of "construction" and "fabrication". It then presents the work of Peter Sloterdijk has a crucial contribution to the philosophy of design. It shows especially how Sloterdijk’ notion of explicitation allows to reconsider materiality (a materiality to which design has always been sensitive) but freed from naturalization as well as from the balancing act between form and function. Finally, it offers a challenge to the design theorists for inventing the tools that could allow this philosophy of design to “draw together » matters of concern.

Bruno Latour

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Platform-Based Design and Software Design Methodology for Embedded Systems

Embedded products have become so complex and must be developed so quickly that current design methodologies are no longer adequate. The authors' vision for the future of embedded-system design involves two essential components: a rigorous methodology for embedded software development and platform-based design.

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli; Grant Martin;

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