Open lecture: JOSE SANCHEZ – Architectures for the Commons, 16.03 at 6PM

On March 16th at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the architecture faculty will be happy to present Los Angeles-based architect, programmer and game designer Jose Sanchez at Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn). Open Lectures are open to all architecture and design students, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial and design matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

Sanchez is partner at Bloom Games, start-up built upon the BLOOM project, winner of the WONDER SERIES hosted by the City of London for the London 2012 Olympics. The pink neon coloured BLOOM was conceptualised as an urban toy, a distributed social game and collective “gardening” experience that seeks the engagement of people in order to construct fuzzy BLOOM formations. He is also the director of the Plethora Project (www.plethora-project.com), a research and learning project investing in the future of online open-source knowledge. In 2016, he was recognized widely as the creator of Block’hood, a city simulator video game exploring notions of crowdsourced urbanism named by the Guardian one of the most anticipated games of 2016.

Sanchez has taught and guest lectured in several renowned institutions across the world, including the Architectural Association in London, the University of Applied Arts (Angewandte) in Vienna, ETH Zurich, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure D’Architecture in Paris.

Today, he is an Assistant Professor at USC School of Architecture in Los Angeles. His research ‘Gamescapes’, explores generative interfaces in the form of video games, speculating in modes of intelligence augmentation, combinatorics and open systems as a design medium.

More on Jose Sanchez: http://www.plethora-project.com/ and http://www.bloom-thegame.com/main/

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Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture. All lectures are in English and free of charge.
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