 All right, I would like to introduce our next presenter is Ralph Spencer steamblick Ralph is a graduate student at the Southern California Institute of Architecture at his thesis work is in neuromorphic Architecture as well as compact urbanism. Thank you very much for being here. Thanks Really appreciated the words of the last speaker very interesting thoughts Urban citizens of the 20th century Were adapted describing the in great detail how to positively influence the progress of urban living and of the city But it is up to the urban dwellers of the 21st century to translate these ideas into reality in the closing remarks of His essay lightness Italo Calvino makes an interesting point We shall face The new millennium without hoping to find anything more than we ourselves are able to bring to it this is an image of The assembly line which is indicative of the 20th century We got really good at at creating Replicas of the exact same thing assembly line manufacturing became a way of life for us And today we live in that world where where we can replicate anything at low cost in mass quantities But I submit that there's a need to move beyond Beyond the assembly line productivity of the 20th century into an Ecosystem mentality in the 21st century. This is a diagram showing the Power consumption of a city in Abu Dhabi the first zero carbon emission city in the world Covered by the New York Times recently they're they're breaking ground on this city this year This this shows the way that the city utilizes energy, but not just utilizes it but uses the waste product of the energy Production as a resource for other systems If we take these these ideas and translate them into our societal norms Make them a part of who we are and what we do as a society becomes very powerful you know we talk to sustainability the ability to Minimize our carbon footprint and tread lightly on the earth It's not a matter of that the the more important thing to consider is making our waste products into a resource for other Other systems other entities other companies and and that's where we become truly sustainable We can tread as lightly as we want, but we're still gonna have a waste product But if we can make our waste products into into a resource for others, then they become Highly highly efficient systems that are then like I said truly sustainable so How do we accomplish this? This is an image of a swarm and many of you know of swarm theory the idea of Organization of decentralized organization and spontaneous Organization as I said to so the way that we were able to to move towards a model of of decentralized Organization is through our ability to act as a as a whole as an entity not as individuals But as as a conglomerate a unit together So I submit to you. What is what is transhumanism? many people would tell us that transhumanism as as some of the slides of previous presenters a strange conglomerate of of People and machine, but I submit to you that it is superorganism the huge superorganism of the human family and through Organization strategies such as these we as a swarm. We are able to move towards Transcending our abilities as individuals and becoming what we Can as a superorganism So we look at these as a dynamic system as We look at this as a dynamic system as a way to Relate to each other in flow in motion and I I'd like I bring this these slides of of atomic motion and of solar radiation to Help us understand or to to bring to mind the ideas of dynamics or of motion in time and space and then Harnessing that motion For the greater good of the whole Let's look at This more in-depth I Would I would say that? Many of the theorists of swarm theory of chaos theory Tell us that we all of the things that we need in order to act in Dynamic groups Self-organized decentralized groups is are in place except for one thing and that's a common value system Postmodernism broke down the hierarchies of society made it so that we no longer have Value systems in society are no longer valued essentially and that's a good thing because it brings it brings up the minority Brings the minority group to to the center of of society and gives them an equal playing field with The majority right but at the same time it destroyed all those value systems that that were inherent with the hierarchy that was present so With that issue at hand, I'd like to to move towards something That I feel is a solution to that problem Here you see mission control and that my solution to this problem it deals with this this idea the idea is that The self-organization must happen with low localized synergistic value-based groups Self-selection is key and the value-based So Organization is key so with with the postmodern society and values being devalued There that becomes an issue So there's a necessity to re invigorate society with value systems to recognize the value systems that we currently have capitalized on those systems and move forward as self-selecting groups that that adhere to these value systems so Not one group is necessarily More important than the other but but those people who have the common common value systems need need to be able to a self-organized To make these decentralized organization systems possible. You see this an example of this in chat forums, you know like Twitter groups and and You know all all these types of medias, but I I think that those are are passive approaches at a prop at at Self-organization to me this mission control situation becomes a type because the way to get these self-organized groups is to make them mission critical and The way that you can make a mission critical situation is through that value system the value system drives the the criticality of the mission and therefore these self-organized entities Will then have a trajectory So the value system is critical once you identify the value system, then you're able to move forward with it so let's look at something that I Have coined positive parametricism and I'm going to tear tear apart this this term and Dissect it for a second positive coming from the prefix of positive Psychology dealing with the move away from diagnosis or focus on the negative Psychological situations in the world. We're moving towards embracing and understanding the the positive psychological Emotions that we have in our life diagnosing those learning how to to understand them learning how to enhance them and Moving towards an assertive study instead of a regressive or a Study that that's reactive so and then the second term Parametricism, okay, wait, excuse me. So so let's look at Abraham Maslow who Originally called psychology to this This move of positive psychology Forgotten for many years and then C. Ligman Marty C. Ligman reintroduce the idea later Abraham Maslow said let let us as a cycle psychological Group move up the the hierarchy to a self-actualization, but let's do it within our Profession, let's actual actualize the profession of Psychology and move to a positive psychology and that's where Marty C. Ligman came in and we see this being proliferated in business schools and all sorts of the also all sorts of different societies and disciplines and organizations in the world this this positive adaptation to things and applying an assertive mechanism as opposed to a regressive or a Regressive situation now. Let's look at parametricism. It's a really pixelated image, but this is Patrick Schumacher on the on the left And Zaha Hadid on the right both architects Zaha Hadid is British and of Arabian royalty and Patrick Schumacher is her lead architect and he and they're involved in Something that I call they they call parametricism and parametricism is Parameter-based design, so it's looking at Using the parameter or using parametric modeling to create opportunities five minutes. Okay to create Create different solutions for one design problem and then taking the best of those solutions from their parametric modeling and Then and then moving forward with that. So let's look at positive parametricism. Well actually so Patrick Schumacher he states parametricism is a style and I submit that there is deeper principles That are able to be applied than just a style and let's look at that. So here is a basic breakdown of hierarchies of Different of the way that people organize their belief systems and I say that That let's move away from the style back to the ideological level and let's analyze that so Here we see Parametricist positive parametricism broken down into parametricism, which which is what Patrick Schumacher brings forward value-based spontaneous organization or positivity which is a Maslion principle and We get through some basic principles for positive parametricism Dynamics Dynamics become key important fundamental and and let's look at some examples of that here We have an example of a dynamic model This is a model from Cohen Pettersen and Fox where they looked at this is ultimately the design of a Train terminal, but they're looking at sun patterns and using these points of reference to you to do dynamic modeling with it Here are some examples of my own some screenshots from from some particle Dynamics modeling that I used as a form-finding generator for Some architectural projects that I've been I work on Now let's look at holistic the holistic nature of positive parametricism. There's a need Well, let's see here within Within the mind there are four different different portions, there's memory perception thought and action so These tenets of positive parametricism fall into those four categories and are holistic in that way and the holistic Holistic portion of positive parametricism is is the need to to address memory to look at the broader scope of things to look at the the minorities as well as the majorities have them represented and come together in Multidisciplinary groups to solve problems then lastly is Is Collaborative before we move on to collaborative. Let's go into holistic for a quick second the title of my speech was Positive parametricism and and phenomenology phenomenology is a study in architecture of The metaphysical properties of space so here's some quick examples or a quick run through throughout history of this this This Phenomenon so here we have Nero with the Domus aria aria and he used his palace as a as a tool for Exploring Spaces for understanding different spaces and as a laboratory for spaces The humanists did the same thing they they tried to create the perfect human space and they were fairly successful at it Not not perfect, but fairly successful next we have The Nuremberg rally and they he the architect there created a virtual space with the spotlights people said that it was a very Emotionally moving event and part of that had to do with the space that they were dwelling in Richard Neutra he would He would diagnose his clients and then prescribe architecture for them we have Christopher Alexander getting into the dynamics of cities and how House how metaphysics and and the city Correlate and then we have dynamic modeling in today's world through many many examples and Then so and then lastly we have collaborative the collaborative nature of positive parametricism these three principles together Applied give us the opportunity to move forward as a race as a superorganism becoming transcending our abilities and Our humanity towards a superhumanality or transhumanism as I would say and through Positive parametricism, I feel that we'll be able to get there and That we as as self-organizing groups will be able to better a tackle better tackle the problems that face the world today Thank you