REGULATORY NONSENSE: I FORCED A BOT TO WRITE BUILDING AND PLANNING REGULATIONS

Presented by Loren Adams

Hosted by MPavillion
12/03/2022
Talk #119

Image: Untitled, courtesy of the artist

Loren Adams presents ‘Regulatory Nonsense: I forced a bot to write building and planning regulations’ =

Hosted by Mpavilion

The specific things governing bodies choose to regulate – and the methods they use to evaluate compliance – tell a story about what we, as a society, collectively value. What might the world be like if poets wrote our building and planning regulations? What if regulations were written by other non-technical writers, too: not just poets, but also storytellers, songwriters, screenwriters, artists, choreographers, and philosophers?

Loren Adams is disciplinary promiscuous spatial technologist and researcher-practitioner with the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Trained in architecture and public policy, her current research explores the ‘socio-spatial exploit’ as an instrument for thinking-with planetary urban power structures. Previously, Loren led the Computational Design Specialist team at Grimshaw Architects in Melbourne and was the inaugural Coordinator of the Melbourne School of Design Robotics Lab. She began her career working as a fine art fabricator in Los Angeles.