Flowing Towards
Choreographing river dynamics
Erzë Dinarama, Iacopo Neri
Erzë Dinarama is an interdisciplinary designer and researcher working at the intersection of architecture, landscape urbanism, and computational design. Erzë has practiced in Italy, Kosovo, Germany, and Austria, and has also been involved in teaching activities at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Turin, Piacenza, and at the School of Design in Milan. Erzë currently works at studio Carlo Ratti Associati, and teaches at Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino.
Iacopo Neri leads a research lying at the intersection of architecture, computer science, and urban planning. He has been involved in academia since 2015, researching computational design and geospatial analysis. He has been involved in teaching activities at the University of Florence, The Polytechnic University of Milan, and at IAAC - Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, where he is currently faculty of computational design and part of the Advanced Architectural Group’s Computational Design Research Team. In parallel, Iacopo has been practicing as a computational designer in Italy, Kosovo, and Spain.
Iacopo and Erzë are part of Studio Spatial Entities
The research aims at exploring the agency of water systems using computational tools.
Furthermore, how the agency and dynamics of water as a non-human entity, can be investigated, represented, and in this way included in our imaginary.
The research is placed within the discourse of art and science, and is done through drawings - Performative Calligraphies, that entail more data driven or scientific aspects through which the drawing becomes an investigative one.
Scientific instruments give a new picture of nature that otherwise remains invisible; in this case, computation is used in a similar manner. The interdisciplinarity coming from the art and science debate finds new ground.
With increasing interest in studying climate change impacts, not only from the scientific community but from the general public as well, it has become particularly important to represent non-human entities such as water in this case, exploring it’s space time dynamics, non-linear nature, and therefore showing the complexity of ecological systems.
The drawings speculate on river dynamics, and the possibility to choreograph them.
Uncertain
Dirty
Disturbance
