Weeknotes 2024 week 8

Published

Delta column ‘Exploring Futures’, which I had rather just titled ‘Architecture’, but the editors thought that was too boring. I wanted to get something down on the difference between engineers’ focus on causing/guaranteeing functionality and architects’ aim to make possible, to create (necessary but not sufficient) conditions (Cf. Taeke de Jong). It turned into something a little different, more on the question of what it means to practice design and/or engineering as an academic discipline. Not my best work.

Went to Antwerp on holiday. What a stony city. Hardly any trees.
First session with my ‘Climate & Transition’-themed cluster for IMS. Off to a good start. Great session. It makes for such a different class atmosphere when an assignment actually matters to students.