Dario Negueruela del Castillo
I am an architect and researcher from Madrid settled in Switzerland. I am currently responsible for the scientific and operational coordination of the Max Planck Center for Digital Visual Studies, hosted by University of Zurich, and Affiliate Head of Research in ALICE lab (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland). In 2017, I completed my PhD thesis with the title" The City of Extended Emotions", where I studied space making capacities of social movements using the theoretical frameworks of Extended Cognition and Synergetic Inter-relational Networks and applying network centrality analysis, emotional dimensional analysis and qualitative urban ethnography.
Previously, I received a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) from Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), where I moved back to open an architectural office (Ná arquitectos), after having received my BA from University of Westminster(London) and an MSc. in TU Delft (the Netherlands). My current research aims at addressing the mutually constitutive dynamics between space and collective agency. More precisely, my work addresses the way in which urban space, through its degree of urbanity, emotionally enacts certain forms of collective agency (social movements) and how in turn these agencies modify and produce new space. The ubiquitous upsurge of urban protests around the world seem to confirm the equally growing production of literature that deals with the city as either scene of conflict and a device for the production of segregation or as a fertile setting for the emergence of novel forms of social life. My research seeks to overcome deterministic approaches to the phenomenon of collective agency and spatial framing by a combination of analysis inspired in the ecological spatial affordances and the Extended Mind thesis, considering the coupling of the individuals with their environment as a form of distributed emotional cognition.
I analyze emergent fundamental properties of the city, such as evolvability, with a strong emphasis on its interactions and consequences on democratic identity, sovereignty and cultural construction of world-views; always relating these issues with architectural theory, social and political theory, aesthetics and philosophy of science.
Previously, I received a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) from Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), where I moved back to open an architectural office (Ná arquitectos), after having received my BA from University of Westminster(London) and an MSc. in TU Delft (the Netherlands). My current research aims at addressing the mutually constitutive dynamics between space and collective agency. More precisely, my work addresses the way in which urban space, through its degree of urbanity, emotionally enacts certain forms of collective agency (social movements) and how in turn these agencies modify and produce new space. The ubiquitous upsurge of urban protests around the world seem to confirm the equally growing production of literature that deals with the city as either scene of conflict and a device for the production of segregation or as a fertile setting for the emergence of novel forms of social life. My research seeks to overcome deterministic approaches to the phenomenon of collective agency and spatial framing by a combination of analysis inspired in the ecological spatial affordances and the Extended Mind thesis, considering the coupling of the individuals with their environment as a form of distributed emotional cognition.
I analyze emergent fundamental properties of the city, such as evolvability, with a strong emphasis on its interactions and consequences on democratic identity, sovereignty and cultural construction of world-views; always relating these issues with architectural theory, social and political theory, aesthetics and philosophy of science.
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investigation takes the form of a project conceived for the 2023 Helsinki Art Biennial and as a collaboration between the Centre for Digital Visual Studies (MPG, University of Zurich) and the media artist Yehwan Song, aptly titled Newly Formed City. Exploring the art collection of the Helsinki Art Museum
(HAM), we seek to reinterpret the cityscape of Helsinki through a machine-oriented perspective. Utilising visual-textual models, we relocate unexhibited artworks to public locations, where, through the creation of context-based computer generated 360-degree panoramas, artworks are placed. Consequently, the outdoor sites are changed by the presence of the artworks, creating a new speculative geography where the city and its art collection are visually fused together. Interaction is achieved through a web interface,
offering visitors the opportunity to move through an alternative version of the city and interact with its cultural heritage on a large scale, exploring the capacities for creativity located at the crossroads of a reflective exchange between vicinity and ignorance, machinic analytical prowess, and the uncanny and the unexpected.
assigning fctional coordinates based on similarity scores. They are then used to generate synthetic 360° art panoramas, transforming the space that each artwork inhabits in the city. The generation is guided by estimated depth values from 360° panoramas at each artwork location and using machine-generated prompts of the artworks. The result is an AI curation that places the artworks in their imagined physical space, blurring the lines of artwork, context, and machine perception. The project is virtually presented as a
web-based installation, where users can navigate an alternative version of the city and explore and interact with its cultural heritage at scale
investigation takes the form of a project conceived for the 2023 Helsinki Art Biennial and as a collaboration between the Centre for Digital Visual Studies (MPG, University of Zurich) and the media artist Yehwan Song, aptly titled Newly Formed City. Exploring the art collection of the Helsinki Art Museum
(HAM), we seek to reinterpret the cityscape of Helsinki through a machine-oriented perspective. Utilising visual-textual models, we relocate unexhibited artworks to public locations, where, through the creation of context-based computer generated 360-degree panoramas, artworks are placed. Consequently, the outdoor sites are changed by the presence of the artworks, creating a new speculative geography where the city and its art collection are visually fused together. Interaction is achieved through a web interface,
offering visitors the opportunity to move through an alternative version of the city and interact with its cultural heritage on a large scale, exploring the capacities for creativity located at the crossroads of a reflective exchange between vicinity and ignorance, machinic analytical prowess, and the uncanny and the unexpected.
assigning fctional coordinates based on similarity scores. They are then used to generate synthetic 360° art panoramas, transforming the space that each artwork inhabits in the city. The generation is guided by estimated depth values from 360° panoramas at each artwork location and using machine-generated prompts of the artworks. The result is an AI curation that places the artworks in their imagined physical space, blurring the lines of artwork, context, and machine perception. The project is virtually presented as a
web-based installation, where users can navigate an alternative version of the city and explore and interact with its cultural heritage at scale
and spatial cognitive strategies. This implementation of the protostructure shows its potential as a tool to approach wood design through a combination of digital and analogical processes, enhance the deployment of spatial cognitive strategies with the use of wood as a material through and with which to think space.
I discuss aspects of these forms of conflict and sharing together with changes that have taken place in the nature, practice and paradigmatic position of public space in the city of Madrid. Furthermore, I consider these changes under the emergence of the prototype as a new paradigm that re-edits the culture of the open city and invites us to re-question common public life in our contemporary European cities.
This research project is so far structured around the following strands, each mobilizing respective resources and interdisciplinary connections.
Proto-emotions, Proto-structures and Proto-figurations
This project is a collective research effort carried out in our laboratory with the concourse of Agathe Mignon, Julien Lafontaine, Aurélie Dupuis and Dieter Dietz.