Instabilities and Potentialities: Notes on the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture

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Chandler Ahrens is an Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis as well as a co-founder of Open Source Architecture (OSA) which is an international transdisciplinary collaboration developing research and commissioned projects. His focus is on the intersection of material investigations environmental phenomena and computational design processes. He was on the board of directors for Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA). His work with OSA has received several design awards and is part of the collection at the Fonds Regional dArt Contemporain (FRAC) in Orleans France. He was a co-curator of the Gen(h)ome Project and co-chair for the exhibition Evolutive Means ACADIA2010. Aaron Sprecher is Associate Professor at the Technion Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning. In parallel he is co-founder and partner of Open Source Architecture a collaborative research group that brings together international researchers in the fields of design engineering media research history and theory. Aaron Sprecher taught at Syracuse University School of Architecture and McGill University School of Architecture. His research and design work focus on the synergy between information technologies computational languages and digital fabrication systems examining the way in which technology informs and generates innovative approaches to design processes. He currently leads the Material Topology Research Laboratory (MTRL) at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. He is co-editor of the book Architecture in FormationOn the Nature of Information in Digital Architecture (2013).