Giuseppe Longo, Conférence spéciale, 25 septembre, 10h-12h, Locale 422, 2910 Édouard Montpetit, « Espaces d'imagination dans la relation triangulaire : machine/homme/écosystème"

Friends, Please circulate this to all interested faculty and students:

Centre Cavaillès, CNRS - ENS, Paris, 
will be giving a special seminar:

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
To: Xin Wei Sha <sxwasu@gmail.com>, giuseppe.longo <giuseppe.longo@ens.fr>

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.

:

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

beyond "wearables" -- Pedro Lopes and "intended consequences"

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

Carlo Ratti Architects: Reimagining e-Mobility with the World’s Largest Board Game

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 Reimagining e-Mobility with the World’s Largest Board Game



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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.


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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.

 
CNN
/ 30 MARCH 2023

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.
 
/ 6 APRIL 2023

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!
/ 1 APRIL 2023

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.
 
/ 22 MARCH 2023

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.
/ 20 MARCH 2023

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.
 
/ 16 MARCH 2023

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.

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ILLUSION OF CONTROL, May 15-17 hybrid conference, Royal Swedish Academy, Para Limes Foundation Netherlands, ASU, Princeton, Stockholm Resilience Center, Beijer Institute for Environmental Economics



Dear Colleagues,
 
It is my great pleasure to invite you both to a unique conference on a topic that is currently emerging in debates in a wide range of disciplines confronted with the question why, while there is an acknowledged urgency to deal with climate change, environmental change and socio-political change, so little is actually happening. It brings together a very interesting group of high-level speakers, both academics and practitioners on environmental change. It is to be held May 15-17, in the auditorium of the Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm. It is organized by the Para Limes Foundation in the Netherlands and sponsored by ASU, Princeton, the Stockholm Resilience Center and the Beijer Institute for Environmental Economics. The meeting will be webcast and is thus accessible to ASU faculty and students!


HERE you find a poster for the conference and the conference page for the website. You can REGISTER from both.

 

Many, many thanks for any help you can give me in publicizing this.

 
Yours truly,

 
Sander van der Leeuw
School of Complex Adaptive Systems
Global Futures Lab, ASU

OSC vs Web-RTC reflector in AWS cloud

A couple of things about OSC and Web-RTC.   This may seem like a technical consideration, but the lived experiences of  — communities of  —  creator or researcher or performer weighs in here…

(1)  For realtime responsive media in live event, we work under the assumption that our processes process live gesture & activity with adequately dense streams of data,    We like lowest possible latency, want our stream rates as high as emitted, don’t care about dropped frames, don’t care about irregular timing.  And we let downstream processes, including the human performer deal.  This works well when there’s adequately high density — frames of data / unit time, and live human-in-the-loop action. (… thanks to Joel Ryan using wireless sensor platforms for live performance between Vienna and Brussels.)    (Yes re. Vangelis we can lean on John Maccallum’s experience :)   

Benefit of UDP is the fact that some packets can be dropped/skipped/undelivered, as it is not "mandatory" data, like picture frames or piece of sound, that only results on reduced quality, which is "expected" behaviour in streaming world. WebSockets will ensure that data is delivered, and "price" for it is mechanics that at the end slows down the queue of packets, to ensure ordered and guaranteed delivery of data.

General principle, for live responsive media:  let human deal with variation of streaming media flow as part of the materiality of the medium (in this case network transport dynamics) rather than hide that materiality  under homogeneous behavior at the cost of slowing processing, introducing global latencies, or syntactic complexity.

(2) Syntactic complexity
For backward compatibility with a lot of code and coding practice, it’d be very important not to require application programmers to insert OSC - web socket glue code in legacy frameworks.  Technicalities or extra idioms whose adoption may seem trivial to an expert programmer can be an insurmountable barrier to creative coding in communities of researchers and artists who just want to get on with shaping the event.

(3)
As much as possible, I’d like to  talk to my cloud services independent from the web (httpd).
Our apps should talk via internet without going through any browser.   
OSC was invented for streaming sensor data between apps, and to be transport agnostic.  
And all the work we’ve been doing with responsive media for live event is aimed at 
avoiding the chunky clunky document paradigms introduced by HTML / httpd
(from the era of file-based OS familiar to CERN engineers :).   

One rejoinder may be that contemporary network transport quality renders (1) and (3) moot, but this assumption is false when we work in parts of the world that are farther from tightly managed network infrastructures.

And (2) is vital.

infinity

Thanks to David Morris,



Zsuzsa Baross
"infinity" is a concept, not an existence, just as zero is not a number….

Sha Xin Wei
Mathematicians treat infinity not as a concept but as (Deleuzian) _problem_
What would be more interesting than the Quanta Magazine's fairly conventional metaphysical subtext is a genealogical and ontogenetic approach to the ever-evolving notion of "the real numbers". (compare this with Bitbol, Petitot et al's project) and even more, to recognize maths as a _speculative_ propositional adventure (cf Roy Wagner, after Whitehead, Stengers)

Barthes neutrality … Laozi 無爲 Wúwèi

To record an exchange from PSF

Muindi: In light of our talk about institutions that play the role of neutral facilitator in geopolitics and individuals who play the role of neutral facilitators in games and play scenarios, I wanted to share with you all some quotations from Roland Barthes' lectures on The Neutral, a book which I am very, very fond of and that I think would make great reading for the PSF group, alongside his lectures on How to Live TogetherI send this because I think that Roland Barthes has a lovely way of talking about neutral party as a passionate figure rather than a dispassionate one. What's more, Barthes phrase "outplay the paradigm" (rather than "playing into the paradigm") could be a very useful phase to empower a facilitator within the context of types of games and play scenarios that we were discussing. (edited) 
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In a related timbre, Stefano Franchi, Niklas Damiris, and Helga Wild wrote a deep book on Passivity, which exists only as an unpublished ms.  A source for these diverse Western turns away from modernity: Bathes,  passivity, Heidegger’s standing in reserve, and Merleau-Ponty’s notion of constitution is Laozi’s Daodejing.  Here’s an introduction by Steve Coutinho to the daoist concept of wúwèi:

Coccia / Reversing The New Global Monasticism / homes, mated things, and care


A beautiful motivation for portals and sutured spaces, telematically mated objects  — objects that are always so that one is aware of and changes state depending on its siblings' state wherever its siblings may be in the world (thanks to tcp-ip + orc or some other network protocol).  

What of there are things X that always come as a set of initially indiscernibly identical, but responsive siblings,  that cannot be owned separately by just one person?  What if they are designed such that N siblings are always to be adopted by N people?  (Simplest case is twins.)

But more profoundly from the point of view of lived experience, the thing’s state and behavior is then sensitive to its relation not only to you / your home, but to wherever else it's homed as well.      It is crucial NOT to think of these things communicating with each other — NOT transmitting data “from" one “to" the other.   But instead design “the” thing so one relates to it as if it exists in more than one place simultaneously —  in but also not in your home, much like a cat.


Coccia / Reversing The New Global Monasticism / homes, things, and care

A beautiful motivation for portals and sutured spaces, telematically mated objects I’ll say more in my next email, but let me offer you the chance to enjoy Coccia’s graceful and thoughtful essay…

Emanuele Coccia / Reversing The New Global Monasticism … https://fallsemester.org/2020-1/2020/4/17/emanuele-coccia-escaping-the-global-monasticism?fbclid=IwAR3y3dUGCXxy9mHutgEGGmatLLho4D4NT7fmfgQCjvlsIHxNWM5qKuvJ_dE