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“The desire to have a technologically empowered environment—one where change is both appreciable and responsive as to elicit human reaction—has produced architectural design production that is wide-ranging. And it is not a new desire. Sometimes the impulse results in schemes impossible to fashion with present technologies. However, the state of architectural design education is a less exuberant one, for reasons necessarily defensible and frequently eclipsed. This is the basis on which education has witnessed a break in its many trajectories—of autonomy, geometry, typology, and technology—to the succession of technology above all else. . . .”

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The Immersive Kinematics Group at PennDesign presents a culmination of semester-long research between two overlapping, but never same-set domains: Art and Design. Steven and Billy Dufala have worked with Simon Kim to produce a show called Nervous Matter, discussing machines in architecture and working with the idea of design agency among humans and reactive materials to create a new medium of design—exhibiting traits of interaction and charm. Nervous Matter has been supported by the RAIR program at Revolution Recovery.

“Nervous Matter: Collaborative Explorations of Interactive Shelters and Reclaimed Materials” with the Dufala Brothers & Immersive Kinematics Group
Thursday, 05/09
5.00–8.00 pm / Project Space, Philadelphia Traction Co
4100 Haverford Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

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Immersive Kinematics is a unique research group focusing on integrating robotics, interaction, and embedded intelligence in our buildings, cities, and cultures. Directed by Simon Kim and Mark Yim, IK is a collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania schools of Engineering and Design, teaming architecture and engineering students in mechatronic projects. Recent collaborations include Technology in Shakespeare, Unethical Machines, a PS1 pavilion, and a Cyborg Ballet.

simon KIM & mark YIM, “Engineering Architects”
Monday, 11/05
6.00 pm / Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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Simon KIM talks about machine learning, modular robotics, rethinking Loos’s Raumplan, “retroactive futures,” and more.

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immersive kinematics group
professors simon KIM and mark YIM

reception at 6pm saturday may 7th

SINErgy Project Space+Gallery
2310 N. American St.
Philadelphia, PA, 19133

SINErgy
immersive kinematics group