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Maps materiality's importance in the emergent posthuman future of architecture This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They all argue that matter in contemporary posthuman times has to be rethought in its rich internal dynamism and its multifaceted context. By transversally crossing disciplinary boundaries, new and profound insights into contemporary thinking and creating architecture emerge. Combining the dynamism of materiality and the capacities of nonhuman machines towards prototyping spatiotemporal designs and constructs leads to alternative conceptions of the human, of ethics, aesthetics and politics in this world yet-to-come.

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"The essays gathered in this valuable book deal with the growing influence that a rejuvenated materialism is having over the thinking of architects. The concept of self-organisation and the advent of new technologies to simulate and interact with the emergent products of spontaneous morphogenesis, have opened brand new directions for design and thought. The editor's opening essay alone, an overview of this tectonic shift, makes this book indispensable reading.-- ""Manuel DeLanda, Princeton University"" This collection will make a great addition to both neo-materialism of architecture and architecture of neo-materialism.-- ""Andrej Radman, Delft University of Technology"""

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Maria Voyatzaki (Vogiatzaki) is an architect and Professor of Architecture, Anglia Ruskin University, UK and a Professor of Architectural Design and Technology, School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds a PhD from the University of Bath, UK. She is the chief editor of the peer-reviewed archi-DOCT Journal. She has been involved in the European Association for Architectural Education as a Council Member and was the Coordinator of the European Network of Design and Technology Teachers.

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