#13: SUNDAY, JAN 24 7 pm :
Ubiquity and Biblos: Carla Leitão & Ed Keller
January 20th, 2010 by Axel
PRESENTATION followed by a think tank with the architects
Some thoughts on Space, Networks, and the Future of Knowledge Creation” by AUM studio – Carla Leitão & Ed Keller
What happens when the Library of Congress can fit in your pocket?
What will the consequences of informational ubiquity be in the next decade? 
Home-room is starting-up 2010 with AUM studio and their new ongoing project, Lodi Library, NY. This is an opportunity to get updated on their latest research, speculations and experiments.
Nothing is better than to start the New Year with “collective forms of knowing” that are shared and discussed in our/your(s) home-room.
The ‘Archive’ has reached an interesting crossroads: a redefinition of the protocols for storage,
display, access, and a transformation of all the institutional, political and disciplinary forms that accompany
collective forms of knowing.
As technologies of preservation and diffusion of information advance, with the promise of preserving massive amounts of information [exponentially produced and exchanged] - libraries, and in particular, public libraries - face a unique challenge in rethinking the archive’s relationship to the creation of new knowledge. How can the new form of the archive- distributed across the network- become active, regenerating public spaces and intensifying the strengths of localized cultures? Will a ’space’ emerge which nurtures and celebrates choices in preservation & exchange, and the actualization and inventions of populations and their respective cultures? Will the concept of culture itself remain?
AUM Studio is an architecture and multimedia design firm co-founded by Carla Leitao and Ed Keller in NYC, in 2003.
Carla and Ed are also design professors in graduate and undergraduate levels of architecture schools in the NY area.
The work of the studio encompasses projects of residential, commercial and institutional architecture as well as design of multimedia installations, online multi-player game scenarios and film scripts.
Home-room is starting-up 2010 with AUM studio and their new ongoing project, Lodi Library, NY. This is an opportunity to get updated on their latest research, speculations and experiments.
Nothing is better than to start the New Year with “collective forms of knowing” that are shared and discussed in our/your(s) home-room.