This coming Tuesday, December 8, 2009 I am presenting my PhD proposal, at the School of Architecture, A.U.Th. at 15:00. The title is:
Protocol Architecture. Complex Systems and Models of Self-Organization in Architectural Design.
The jury is: as.prof. S. Vergopoulos, prof. E. Tzekakis, as.prof D. Papalexopoulos.
The presentation is open to the public, so anyone interested is welcomed.

Protocol Infrastructure attempts to approach the design of infrastructure in an alternative, bottom-up fashion, that is not based on master planning but instead on the development of a protocol that would allow infrastructure to ’self-organize’, adapting at the same time to the conditions that it encounters. The characteristics of such an approach are illustrated through [...]