los angeles CALIFORNIA

University of Southern California
critic: Doris SUNG

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:

Erin CUEVAS: While the automobile has evolved to fit the desires of drivers, infrastructure has remained static. Rather than fostering a proper environment for the contemporary mobile lifestyle, infrastructure instead produces a monotonous and often irritating experience of driving—especially during traffic. Is it possible for infrastructure to function the same was as cars, as an extension of the driver’s body and identity?

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

Brooklyn + London based research collaborative, Darrick Borowski, Nikoletta Poulimeni and Jeroen Janssen will be presenting their ongoing research “Edible Infrastructures: Emergent Organizational Patterns For a Productive City” at ACADIA 2012: Synthetic Digital Ecologies, this Sunday, Oct 21 at CCA in San Francisco.

Other notable speakers at this year’s ACADIA conference include Greg Lynn, Neri Oxman, Saul Griffith, Achim Menges and Manuel DeLanda.

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