Gruppi di ricerca territorio

Archinect

http://www.archinect.com
Mission: The goal of Archinect is to make architecture more connected and open-minded, and bring together designers from around the world to introduce new ideas from all disciplines.

A+H

http://km2.net/aplush (FR | arte | architettura | installazioni | allestimenti)
A+H si definiscono un "laboratorio culturale" conducono ricerche sulle nuove tecnologie legate al territorio. Hanno realizzato molti progetti tra cui allestimenti museali, installazioni, lavori artistici.

socialfiction.org

http://socialfiction.org (?? | arte | attivismo | sociologia )
Socialfiction.org is a long-term research project that seeks to develop speculative knowledge that subverts ordinary ways to employ, experience and measure space, time and language.
The day to day reality of socialfiction.org is filled with projects. For most of them we encourage participation by persons known and unknown. Some of our projects are like whales, most are like plankton: the small ones feed the large ones.
Progetti interessanti:

• Psicogeografia e XML http://socialfiction.org/PML.html
  http://www.socialfiction.org/header.php?naamski=./PML.html&submit=send
• http://urbanxml.com
• Simulatore citta` complessa http://socialfiction.org/crystalpunk.html

Lab AU

http://www.lab-au.com (BE)
LAB a + u definition: LABoratory for architecture and urbanism. LAB a+u establish a research on architecture and urbanism, in work processes as well as in the project itself, in relation to the concepts of information, space and perception and the fields of sociology, philosophy and economy.

Stalker

http://digilander.libero.it/stalkerlab (IT | architettura | sociologia | urbanistica | studio del territorio)
"La zona è forse un sistema molto complesso di insidie... non so cosa succede qui in assenza dell'uomo, ma non appena arriva qualcuno tutto comincia a muoversi... la zona in ogni momento è proprio come l'abbiamo creata noi, come il nostro stato d'animo... ma quello che succede, non dipende dalla zona, dipende da noi." (Stalker di A. Tarkovskij, 1979)

Sciatto produzione

http://www.ecn.org/sciattoproduzie
s p a c e is fundamental in any form of communal life; s p a c e is fundamental in any exercise of power . (Michel Foucault; Space, Knowledge and power, 1984.)

aether architecture

http://www.aether.hu
Design and research collaborative focusing on architecture, digital media, interaction design and related academic teaching. Work is produced on various platforms, in different collaborations.

Enough Room for Space (ERFOTS)

http://www.enoughroomforspace.org
Enough Room for Space (ERFOTS) is a non-profit organization founded in 2005 by Maarten Vanden Eynde and Marjolijn Dijkman. The aim of ERFORS is to create a mobile platform for site-specific projects. The nature of each project is outlined by its location, with its own number of participants, length, and predetermined concept. Sometimes this involves working with a curator or local artists.

TRANSCULTURES

http://www.transcultures.net
TRANSCULTURES is a non-profit association founded in 1996 in Brussels by independent art critics and culturally committed viewers to promote and develop exchanges between different cultures and within the various contemporary arts. Since 1998, Transcultures focuses specifically on the various relationships between art/society/new technologies throughout an in-progress process of investigation of new forms of expression.
Transcultures ha organizzato un importante festival in Brussels http://www.citysonics.be tutto incentrato sul tema dei suoni. L`ultima versione e` dell`estate 2005.

i-dat

http://www.i-dat.org
"I intend to incorporate with one department of my labours a complete reduction to a system, of the principles and methods of 'discovery'" (Ada Lovelace, 1844)

• i-~DAT is a creative playground for trans-disciplinary practice in digital art and technology.
• It focuses on the transformation of data and the social implications of emergent cultural production.
• i-~DAT aims to define and establish new fields of practice and critical discourse through the creative and innovative use of: digital architecture, ubiquitous computing, software art, networking, publishing/casting and other informational technologies.
• i-~DAT integrates teaching, research and enterprise, as well as other creative output to disseminate its activities to its community and wider public.

netzspannung

http://netzspannung.org
netzspannung.org is an Internet platform for artistic production, media projects, and intermedia research. As an interface between media art, media technology and society, it functions as an information pool for artists, designers, computer scientists and cultural scientists.

Turbulence

http://www.turbulence.org
Turbulence is a project of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA), a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that has as its core mission the commissioning of networked art by emerging and established artists. Since 1996 we have commissioned, exhibited and archived over 90 original works for Turbulence, and helped launch the careers of numerous artists.