ARC 597 | On Speed Situated Technologies Intellectual Domain Seminar, Fall 2014

We are running. And made everything running with us. We are in Schivelbusch’s train. Running so fast the scenes are so blurry to see. Gradually missing out the aura. Making change in time and distance. Pacing up the speed of life more and more. Hallnas and Redstrom asked to slow down to think about the pencil itself to reveal details and system. A traveler I needs to run fast to grab the train, to be there on the right time to see the full moon, to save his front row in the concert, But at the same time he needs to sit down beside that sea to have his evening tea and do nothing. Time is needed to master a craft or a skill. In this speedy life modern education denying the repetitive learning process. As Weiner asked for computing to spare human from repetitive works and machines took over. For architects CAD as the drawing tool took over the place of a drafting table and spared us to redraw the same drawing over and over again. Makes it faster but left some problems with it. We tend to spend less time to draw, thus we skip small detail. We put the hatch rather that drawing each block of brick. Then we jump to other block but the previous one actually has tremendous scope to work with those small brick blocks to wonderful solution. We are missing out the details gradually. In process of this learning we are lacking in understanding. The scale of big projects get lost in the zooming in and zooming out of the window. We end to less understand the environmental fact, rather we put the coordinates to the simulation software to work on the environmental aspect. It is so precise that it actually discourage us to work on that on our own. It is good and bad at the same time. Some projects actually could not be done without the computer aided design. So it is not the CAD it is our knowledge and system that put CAD in distress. The utopia could be if the craftsman is taught CAD to produce crafts. So It is the responsibility of consciousness.