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Friends and Fellow Travelers,
Just a note that I’ll be only erratically connected due to a work trip in the EU Nov 7-14, so will have to suspend most of my regular videoconference meetings during that period.
With apologies, and looking forward to resuming our chats!
Xin Wei
Begin forwarded message:From: Maël Montévil (via phibiotheo Mailing List) <phibiotheo@services.cnrs.fr>Bonjour à toutes et tous,
ci dessous l'annonce du colloque annoncé lors de l'inauguration.
Bien à vous,
Marie Chollat-Namy, Maël Montévil, Anton Rober
OPEN HISTORICITY OF LIFE: THEORY, EPISTEMOLOGY, PRACTICE
9 - 10 November 2023, 9h30
Salle Dussane, École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm, Paris
ORGANIZATION: Marie Chollat-Namy, Maël Montévil, Anton Robert
Participants :
Stuart Kauffman, Giuseppe Longo, Armand Hatchuel, Pascal Le Masson, Maël Montévil, Andrea Loettgers, Tarja Knuuttila, Marina Cortes, Alessandro Sarti, Paul Antoine Miquel, Andrea Roli, Sélène Domino, Johanes Jäger, Marie Chollat-Namy, Anton Robert, Mathilde TaharProgramme
https://republique-des-savoirs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-11-910-col-mm-program-v3.pdfDownloadable papers by the speakers:
https://mycore.core-cloud.net/index.php/s/zC9NL2KYZettzVoZoom Link:
https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/98339431287?pwd=VWJXK2c0NjRqSzBVVVFTc1VCN2xhZz09In the theory of evolution, the forms of life change, and these changes are critical for the understanding of living beings. However, the nature of these changes, and the way to understand them, remains a matter of open discussion. In the XIXth century, physics, especially classical mechanics, was the paradigm of science, and physics understands change as a displacement in an abstract mathematical space. This method has been imported into biology, for example, in population genetics; however, philosophers, notably Bergson, called into question the notion that things (always) exist as a possibility before they become actual. Bergson concludes that there are limits to our ability to understand living being that is intrinsic to mathematics and come from the creativity of evolution. To our knowledge, the only field of biology that built explicitly on this notion is phylogenetic systematics --- however this field also has very specific purposes.
In the last decade, the notion that new possibilities appear over time in biological phenomena has received renewed and growing attention. Kauffman approaches it as the adjacent possible, Sarti and Citti as heterogenesis, and Longo and Montévil as symmetry change and specific objects. Accordingly, there is a growing understanding that this notion is a significant shift and challenge in the way to do science.
However, there has yet to be a systematic effort to bring together the different perspectives on this question in biology and in other fields confronted with it. In this conference, we intend to create bridges between the different perspectives that have been developed, mostly independently, on the question of changing possibility spaces in biology. We aim to discuss the status of this notion: Do new possibilities appear by principle, or can their existence be proven? The second major topic of discussion will be the scientific possibilities and limits that this notion leads to. In particular, can it be captured by existing mathematics, new mathematics, something somewhat different, or no theoretical construct at all? In general, what kind of scientific practice does this question open?
Friends, Please circulate this to all interested faculty and students:
Espaces d'imagination dans la relation triangulaire : machine/homme/écosystème
( Spaces of imagination in the triangular relation: machine / human / écosystem )
Université de Montréal
Monday Sep 25, 10:00 - 12:00 noon
2910 boul. Édouard Montpetit, room 422
The seminar will be in French, with Q&A in English and French.
( French abstract below …
)
From: Jonathan Simon <jonathan.simon@umontreal.ca>Subject: Fw: Giuseppe Longo, Conférence spéciale, 25 septembre, 10h-12h, Locale 422, 2910 Éd. Mont., « Espaces d'imagination dans la relation triangulaire : machine/homme/écosystème"
Date: September 18, 2023 at 4:37:51 PM EDT
Chers collègues,J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer une conférence spéciale qui sera donnée lundi prochain, 25 septembre, de 10 h à 12 h, par Giuseppe Longo, en visite à Montréal du Centre Cavaillès, CNRS - ENS, Paris.
Veuillez transmettre cette invitation à vos collègues ou étudiants susceptibles d'être intéressés.
Où:
2910 boul. Édouard Montpetit,
locale 422
Quand:
10h - 12h, 25 septembre
Qui:
Giuseppe Longo
Centre Cavaillès, CNRS - ENS, Paris ww.di.ens.fr/users/longo
Quoi:
Espaces d'imagination dans la relation triangulaire : machine/homme/écosystème.Abstrait:
En 1936, Alan Turing imaginait un «calculateur humain... agissant sur un cahier d'enfant», saLogical Computing Machine : lire/écrire 0/1, se déplacer à gauche/à droite. Conjointement au Lambda-calcul de Church (1932), ces «systèmes de réécriture de termes» constituent encore aujourd'hui le fondement logique de l'informatique et, depuis trop longtemps, un paradigme pour la cognition humaine et l'IA. Turing les présentait comme une «imitation» possible d'un cerveau humain. Le «tournant connexionniste» s'appuie au contraire sur un «modèle» du cerveau, depuis Hebb et Rosenblatt (dans les années 1950) et a ouvert la voie au Deep Learning contemporain. Dans les deux cas, une machine à entrées-sorties est censée simuler un cerveau animal, sans espace tridimensionnel (ou avec juste une imitation de celui-ci par une cascade de couches bidimensionnelles), ni la matérialité biologique du cerveau dans son contexte (un crâne animal, dans un corps, dans un écosystème). Certains résultats limitatifs (mathématiques) du Deep Learning seront évoqués ainsi que les différences entre imprévisibilité, dynamique et créativité, comme instance de «production d'anti-entropie», notion proposée en 2009. Dans les processus mentaux, la production d'anti-entropie peut être comprise comme «l'invention de configurations de sens».
References :
G. Longo, Le cauchemar de Prométhée. Les sciences et leurs limites. Préface de Jean Lassègue, postface d’Alain Supiot. PUF, Paris, 2023. - Couverture-Table-introLeCauchemarPromethee.pdf - E. Klein : Présentation sur France Culture - 4 minutes
G. Longo, Information at the Threshold of Interpretation, Science as Human Construction of Sense. In Bertolaso, M., Sterpetti, F. (Eds.) A Critical Reflection on Automated Science – Will Science Remain Human? pp. 67-100, Springer, Dordrecht, 2019.
C. Calude, G. Longo. The Deluge of Spurious Correlations in Big Data, in Foundations of Science, 1-18, March, 2016.
(téléchargeable à l'adresse suivante: https://www.di.ens.fr/users/longo/download.html )
Brief Biography:
Giuseppe Longo is DRE CNRS, at the Cavaillès, République des Savoirs, interdisciplinary center of Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris and a former Professor of Mathematical Logic and of Computer Science, University of Pisa. He spent three years in the USA (Berkeley, MIT, Carnegie Mellon) as researcher and Visiting Professor. GL is co-author of about 140 papers. Founder and director (1990-2015) of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, a Cambridge U.P. journal, he co-authored the book with A. Asperti, on Categories, Types and Structures (M.I.T. Press, 1991). He then extended his research interests to Theoretical Biology and Epistemology, see the books with F. Bailly, Mathematics and the natural sciences: The Physical Singularity of Life (Hermann, Paris, 2006; Imperial College Press, London, 2011) and with M. Montévil, Perspectives on Organisms: Biological Time, Symmetries and Singularities (Springer, Berlin, 2014). GL edited with A. Soto and D. Noble (and co-authored six papers of) From the century of the genome to the century of the organism: new theoretical approaches, a special issue of Prog Biophys Mol Biol, 122, 1, 2016. GL is currently focusing on historical correlations and on alternatives to the new alliance between computational formalisms and the governance of man and nature by algorithms and by supposedly objective "optimality" methods. He recently published ‘‘Matematica e senso. Per non divenir macchine’’ (Mimesis, 2021); a largely revised and extended version in French of this book is ‘‘Le cauchemar de Prométhée’’ (PUF, April 2023).
Web page: http://www.di.ens.fr/users/longo/
Hope to see you there next Monday!
Xin Wei
Dear friends and fellow travelers in Synthesis’ extended atmospheres who may be in Tempe Arizona during SLSA 2023: Oct 25-29,
I hope we’ll have several occasions to get together!
Now that Adam and Stacey have sent out a DRAFT SLSA 2023 Conference schedule, Oct 25-29, I take the liberty sharing this gdoc marking some of the panels and workshops in which some of us appear.
This is not to imply that these are the only vitally interesting occasions (!), but rather to see where there are pockets of time when some of us may gather together. Let’s look for counter-times shall we?
Oana and I will arrive Wednesday night, sadly too late to catch Garrett et al's Weird pop-up. But do reach out if you’d like to get together. Here’s my phone for text | WhatsApp etc.: +1-650-815-9962 :)
And please come if you can to the screening Friday of Beyond Paper / Au delà du papier, Oana's ravishingly beautiful essay-film that the National Filmboard of Canada has agreed to screen as an avant-premiere at SLSA. http://beyondpaper.art has French and English trailers).
In any case, hope to see you at the SLSA salsa Friday night at the Neeb courtyard.
Xin Wei
Building of the month (February 2021): SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil
Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992), an Italian-born architect and designer
SESC (Serviço Social do Comércio ) - Social Service of Commerce is a private organization supported by entrepreneurs in businesses, tourism and services. Inspired by concepts from the Cartar da Paz Social (Letter for Social Peace), it aims to provide well-being and quality of life to professionals working in these industries and their family members. SESC’s initiatives stem from a solid cultural and educational project that has borne the mark of innovation and social transformation since it was established by the business and services community in 1946.Throughout its more than 70 years, SESC has been innovating by introducing new models of cultural action and, in the ‘80s, underscored education as a basic tenet for social transformation. It has been fulfilling its purpose through concentrated efforts in the field of culture and its many forms of expression, reaching audiences that span all age groups and social strata. That means not only offering a wide variety of activities, but also making an effective contribution to more long-lasting and meaningful experiences.SESC’s network in the state of São Paulo includes 43 locations dedicated to culture, sports, health and food, children and youth development, senior citizens and social tourism, among others. The venues feature different architectural styles and influences and were conceived in collaboration with renowned architects, such as Lina Bo Bardi and Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who designed SESC Pompeia and SESC 24 de Maio, respectively.The organization’s reach in the state of São Paulo extends well beyond city facilities dedicated to social and cultural activities. Cultural and sports initiatives occupy streets, squares, parks and other spaces, and tons of food, provided by donor businesses, are handed out to social organizations through projects such as the Circuito SESC de Artes (SESC Art Circuit), Dia do Desafio (Challenge Day) and Mesa Brasil (Brazil Table), held in partnership with city halls and local trade unions.Other channels that help to increase access to SESC’s programs and cultural assets are its web Portal, SESC SP, SESC TV, a publishing house - Edições SescSP, a record label - Selo Sesc, and magazines Em Cartaz (What’s On), Mais 60 (60 More) and Revista E (Magazine E).Sesc São Paulo’s technical team currently comprises more than 7.000 employees and, therefore, people management involves many actors, activities and processes at all levels of the organization. The diversity of Sesc’s staff paves the way towards providing better quality services and fulfilling its mission to the best of its abilities.The considerable knowledge acquired by Sesc throughout its long journey following these tenets has led it to become a policy-making reference in its many fields of operation. In recent years, the institution has been invited to join boards, committees, associations, collegiate bodies, forums and various working groups. Today, Sesc São Paulo representatives sit in the advisory and executive bodies of 50 national and international art, sports, culture, health, environment, tourism, social services and human rights organizations.
Sesc’s ongoing and non-formal education initiatives aim to foster the development of its many different audiences by encouraging their autonomy, and contact and interaction with different forms of expressions, ways of thinking, acting and feeling.
Theory Culture and Society has just published the special issue Against Ontology: Chinese Thought and François Jullien. I think this may be an important hinge not only for the polyphonic seminars that Muindi Fanuel Muindi and I are preparing with Cécile Malaspina for the Collège International de Philosophie, but also more widely, for a richer, reciprocal conversation between Chinese and Euro-Anglo thought.
Deeply insightful, original work on hybridizing analog with digital systems that can adaptively attune to boundlessly more complex signals, as a model for more-than-individual, material attunement and orientation, and coordination. (hybrid in Simondonian sense…. A mature paper is in press at Angelaki…
Synthetic cognition: a hybrid
Joshua Bacigalupi
2020
A hybrid system is proposed leveraging the diverse strengths of designed digital and evolved cognitive systems. This project will create a buildable and testable system capable of doing increasing amounts of useful work within the system's dynamic and complex environment. Please visit IforAM.org(tm) for more information about Synthetic Cognition.
Clarification: There are many kinds of machines. There are functional machines that have fixed relationships between all their parts. These machines include most all human fabricated machines to date including the subset of digital machines, which are Turing equivalent.
This project in synthetic cognition proposes a novel type of machine, which is not limited to fixed internal relations among parts. I call this new type "Superimposed Computation". This new type is discussed further in this short video:
http://tinyurl.com/cjaugjx
More summary videos about this project can be found here:
http://iforam.org/media
More specifically, here's a link to a summary of a talk focusing on the theory given at the cybernetics symposium at Asilomar last year:
http://bit.ly/19cpRv4.
Paper published as of 12/13 on the theory portion of this talk:
http://bit.ly/1huybdmContact me if interested in reading paper.
A full research proposal is here:
http://iforam.org/media/publications
And, a summary of the proposal is here:
http://tinyurl.com/7ccj9rk
Pedro Lopes @ U Chicago CS has a provocative research program that invites critical attention.
"integrating interfaces with the human body—exploring the interface paradigm that supersedes wearables. These include:
muscle stimulation wearables that allow users
to manipulate tools they have never seen before or that accelerate
reaction time, or a device that leverages
the smell to create an illusion of temperature.”
(Pedro came from Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam, also worth tracking…)
I'm not at all advocating that we blindly adopt such techniques in our fashion+tech work. Indeed, it may be timely to look ahead of the state of industrial craft (e.g Google+Levi's Jacquard )
and see where critical-creative attention ought to bite.
Cheers!
Xin Wei
From: CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati <pr@carloratti.com>
Date: April 18, 2023 at 7:57:41 AM EDT
To: SHAXINWEI@gmail.com
Subject: Reimagining e-Mobility with the World’s Largest Board Game
Reply-To: CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati <pr@carloratti.com>
Reimagining e-Mobility with the World’s Largest Board Game
newsletter APRIL 2023
REIMAGINING E-MOBILITY WITH THE WORLD’S
LARGEST BOARD GAME
Italo Rota and CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati present “Walk the Talk”, an installation which dramatically transforms Milan’s Botanical Garden into a 3,500-square-meter interactive game. Over 400 energy-harvesting luminescent tiles form multiple pathways, engaging players in the discourse underlying the future of urban mobility. Developed for Eni, the project is on view during Milan Design Week through April 26, 2023.
More information and images available upon request through pr@carloratti.com.
Architect Italo Rota and international design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati have unveiled a project for Milan Design Week 2023 that transforms the city’s Botanical Garden into the largest game board in the world. Designed as an accessible “choose your own path” adventure, “Walk the Talk” challenges players to discover and reflect on everyday choices for a sustainable mobility. The installation features energy-harvesting tiles that produce dynamic light and sound effects during day and night. The project is developed for global energy company Eni as part of the Design Week’s INTERNI Re-evolution exhibition, and will be open to the public until 26th April 2023.
The “Walk the Talk” path is structured as a metaphorical stroll around Milan, featuring the city’s major landmarks. It is made up of over 400 wooden tiles and 32 different types of icons spread across 3500 square meters. Each one represents either an obstacle or a solution to the game’s theme of urban mobility: from traffic to public transportation and electric car sharing. Players – either alone or in tandem with others – navigate their way through the city by finding sustainable solutions to challenges such as overcrowded neighborhoods or lack of pedestrian areas. Their route depends on the choices they make, as they encounter various crossroads and intersections along the way.
The path’s colored tiles are produced with a combination of special luminescent varnishes and films which harvest and store energy during the day and release a prolonged glow after dusk. This glowing effect is enhanced by a low-intensity lighting system throughout the garden, adding an atmospheric quality to the space and allowing visitors to play the game after dark. The “Walk the Talk” path is designed along with game designer collective Blob Factory Gaming studio, and with graphic design concept by studio FM milano.
“Walk the Talk” uses the gaming framework to form a dialogue between the visitor and Milan’s much-loved Botanical Garden. It provides a participatory way to engage with this historical location and with the city, as well as an experience that people can share.” says Italo Rota, founder of Italo Rota Building Office.
“The future of mobility presents substantial challenges which require collective understanding and participation,” says Carlo Ratti, founding partner at CRA and director of the MIT Senseable City Lab: “At a time when digital gamification is everywhere, we wanted to experiment with a physical game board - one of the largest ever made. “Walk the Talk” is an accessible experience to help jumpstart an important conversation about the future of mobility.”
CRA has explored the theme of sustainable urban mobility in a variety of projects, both as a design studio and by drawing on research conducted by Carlo Ratti’s MIT Senseable City Lab. Projects include the New Deal Paris, an exhibition project envisioning how Paris’ highway might look like in 2050 with the widespread adoption of autonomous mobility; and Anas Smart Road, a collaboration with Italy’s leading road agency ANAS to implement a digitally-integrated highway to improve safety conditions and traffic management. In the city of Milan, CRA has designed the master plan for MIND-Milano Innovation District (former site of 2015’s World Expo), featuring offices, research centers, the future Science Campus of the University of Milan, and a neighborhood planned for shared, self-driving shuttles.
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CREDITS
Walk the Talk
A project by Italo Rota and CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati
Client: ENI
Location: Orto Botanico, Brera, Milan, Italy (opening times: 10:00-22:00)
Part of INTERNI Design Re-Evolution exhibition within the Milan Design Week 2023
Opening dates: 18-26 April 2023
CRA Team: Carlo Ratti (founder), Andrea Cassi (Partner in Charge), Chiara Morandini (Project Manager), Gabriele Sacchi, Gary di Silvio, Gianluca Zimbardi
Italo Rota Team: Italo Rota, Francesca Grassi
Developed with Blob Factory Gaming Studio; Graphic concept by studio FM milano
Photo credits: Marco Beck Peccoz
Video credits: Davide Bernardis (creative direction), Andrea Zendali (videographer)
More information is available upon request: pr@carloratti.com
VISIT US AT MILAN FURNITURE FAIR Not to be missed: CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati is at Milan’s Furniture Fair this year with Wood You Believe?, a project developed for Gruppo Saviola, the international leader in the manufacturing of fully recycled timber panels. The experimental pavilion, designed by CRA with Italo Rota, features a striking facade made from four tons of discarded wooden objects, granting waste materials a second life – a key tenet of the Circular Economy. Check out the preview photographs here - more to come soon! Open until April 23, 2023.
IN PROGRESS: EXPO 2030 ROMA Three cities are left in the race to host the World Expo 2030: Rome, Riyadh, and Busan. This week, the secretary of the Bureau International des Expositions lands in the Italian capital for an official inspection visit - one of the most crucial steps of the selection process. As CRA led the team which developed the master plan for Rome’s bid to the international exhibition, you can read more about the project vision in Carlo Ratti’s op-ed for Corriere della Sera, one of Italy’s most respected dailies.
ASPEN INSTITUTE ROUNDTABLE
MILAN, IT
21 APRIL
Carlo Ratti will host a panel discussion by the Aspen Institute, dissecting design of the new generation through the lenses of technology and sustainability.
ANNUAL INVESTMENT MEETING
ABU DHABI, AE
8-10 MAY
In this annual global congress, Carlo will moderate a conversation exploring how cities can navigate transformational technologies of the future.
If autonomous vehicles are to become the cornerstones of future urban mobility, the roads on which they move are just as important in making transportation smoother and greener. CRA talked with CNN about how flexible design schemes – such as modular pavements to assign usage of the same road to different groups at different hours – could help drivers and pedestrians alike.
A preview of Walk the Talk – Moving Energy, the installation created by Italo Rota and CRA for Eni, was spotlighted by Dezeen as one of the 12 “unmissable exhibitions” during Milan Design Week. Visitor enter a life-size “game board” with light and sound effects spread across the garden, and find their way through by engaging with ideas on sustainable mobility. See it in person at the Brera Botanical Garden!
Monocle’s April issue features an interview with Carlo Ratti on integrating nature into urban spaces. Digital technologies could be a useful device to accelerate it, but more importantly, we need to identify the right approach to use them: trials and errors are inevitable, and feedback loops are key to perfecting designs to make cities greener and more livable.
Flatburn is the latest addition to the City Scanner series by MIT Senseable City Lab directed by Carlo. The open-sourced platform empowers individuals to build their own low-cost, solar-powered sensing devices to monitor the air quality of their areas, before engaging with the community to analyze the data. Find out more in Fast Company’s coverage.
Carlo’s op-ed addresses the debate around 15-minute cities: conspiracy theories claim that they confine within their neighborhoods. In fact, 15-minute cities give their residents the freedom to access everyday necessities within a short distance. Thus saving longer commutes for leisure and socialization.
Emanuele Rossetti, CEO of CRA Group, explains in this interview how AI and robotics are adopted across the company. From a robot bartender startup to decarbonization oriented infrastructure that manage thermal heat storage, they make cities “come alive” and become more responsive to our needs.
CRA is hiring! We are looking for new talents to join our offices in Turin and New York. To discover all the vacancies and send in your application, visit our JOBS page. We look forward to working with you!
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