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Open Source Architecture Manifestoby Carlo Ratti Associati
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Visitors to the Adhocracy show at the Istanbul Design Biennial are confronted with a plotter taking the text of the Open SourceArchitecture Manifesto from a Wikipedia page and writing it onto a wall. (+ slideshow)
Created by Walter Nicolino and Carlo Ratti of Carlo Ratti Associati, the plotter updates the text as the Wikipedia page changes.
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The project began last year when Joseph Grima, editor of Domus magazine and curator of the Adhocracy show, asked Ratti towrite a manifesto for open-source architecture.
“I said yeah sure, but let’s do it in an open-source way,” Ratti told Dezeen. “So we set up a page on Wikipedia.”
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Ratti, who is director of the Senseable City Lab at MIT, invited contributors including Nicholas Negroponte, John Habraken,
Paola Antonelli and Hans Ulrich Obrist to contribute to the page to create an evolving document that was published in Domus in
June 2011.
“It’s funny because the editors of Wikipedia kept erasing it until it was published in Domus, and then it became kind of ‘legal’,”
says Ratti. “So now it is a page on Wikipedia and people keep on adding to it, changing it and so on. It keeps on evolving.”
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In Istanbul the suspended plotter writes the manifesto on a large whiteboard mounted on the wall on the staircase at theAdhocracy exhibition, crossing out and overwriting passages as they are edited on Wikipedia and starting afresh as soon as the
text is completed.
The plotter is based on similar principles to Hektor, a wall-mounted plotter that paints with a spray can. “There was a prototype
of a similar plotter called Hektor – there’s a couple of them online that were doing things on a piece of paper,” says Ratti. “Buthere the idea was to do it on an architectural scale, on a big wall.”
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See our interview with Joseph Grima about the Adhocracy exhibition and read more about open design on Dezeen.
Here’s some text from Carlo Ratti Associati:
Open Source Architecture Manifesto
2012 / Istanbul TURKEY
When Domus approached Carlo Ratti to write an op-ed on the theme of opensource architecture he responded with an unusualsuggestion: why not write it collaboratively, as an open-source document? Within a few hours a page was started on Wikipedia,and an invitation sent to an initial network of contributors. The outcome of this collaborative effort is presented in an articlepublished in Domus in June 2011. The article is a capture of the text as of 11 May 2011, but the Wikipedia page remains online
as an open canvas — a 21st century “manifesto” of sorts, which by definition is in permanent evolution.
A year after the article’s publication, in the summer of 2012, the idea of recapturing the text in its current state of mutation wasborn. However, it was not to be envisaged as a new publication, but rather a piece of the exhibition, Adhocracy, curated byJoseph Grima for the first Istanbul Design Biennal. The studio carlorattiassociati envisioned a canvas on which a free flowing penwrites, erases and constantly rewrites the different versions of the Wikipedia page, indicating corrections, deletions and
development of the manifesto in its continuous state of change.
A vertical plotter on a large whiteboard welcomes visitors to the exhibition; its contents are generated in real-time from a scriptthat constantly compares the various versions of the Wikipedia page. Starting each time from one of the numerous updateswritten online, the pen retraces its steps to incorporate all the users’ contributions. Once it reaches the end, it begins once again,relentlessly in pursuit of the latest version of our open source manifesto, OsArc.
For more information, and to read the article published in Domus (June 2011) visit: senseable.mit.edu/osarc
For details of the exhibition Adhocracy, part of the Istanbul Design Biennal running until December 2012 visit:
istanbuldesignbiennial.iksv.org/adhocracy
Team: Carlo Ratti, Walter Nicolino, Pietro Leoni (project leader), Antonio Atripaldi, Giovanni de Niederhausern, Enrico Gueli,
Franco Magni
Special thanks to Officine Arduino / FabLab Torino
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Comments (5)
· 23 hours ago
The highest status a scientific theory can have is "not yet proven outdated". Yes - evolution always, pretty please.
· 22 hours ago
That's all well and good. Who designed the drawing robot? Where can we find more information about it?
Thank you!
· 17 hours ago
I designed the machine with the help of a couple of other guys for the circuits and code. At the moment we have not yet released the drawings,but we intend to do it, along with the code. Moreover, we need a little time to tidy things up and make a little documentation on the assembly.
It's a combination of processing and arduino, with two stepper nema 17 driven by Pololu a4988 stepper driver and some rc servo on theprinting head. The big work, however, has been on the texts analysis and the generation of dynamic inputs.
· 4 hours ago
Jürg Lehni developed a drawing robot like this in 2005. That's seven years ago.
· 3 hours ago
Jürg Lehni (and Uli Franke) developed a drawing robot like this in 2002-2003. That's ten years ago. The name was Hector and is quoted byCarlo in this article, also with a link. Since then, there have been many other vertical plotters made.
In our installation the concept is the analysis of web contents, the dynamic generation of input for the plotter and the fact that the machine isable to delete, as well as write, to enrich this content. The vertical plotter is only a tool. If we could, it would be nice to do it with a Kuka.
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