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Toni Cliett + Nick Kahler, Technomadic Dwelling, Short Film, 2010

Our proposal selects a certain existing and self-classified type of nomad, one that functions in society in a predominantly digital manner. Thus, these nomads isolate themselves from one another and from the basic structures of a physical  community. This scheme incites physical, as well as digital, togetherness through the phenomenological act of constructing and co-habitating a series of clustered  dwellings customized for these individuals.

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Etymologies of the Month (November 2010)

November Continued the Technomadic Dwellings and Notions of the City as Place

  1. Event (n): 1570s, from M.Fr. event, from L. eventus "occurrence, accident, event, fortune, fate, lot, issue," from pp. stem of evenire "to come out, happen, result," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + venire "to come" (see venue: early 14c., "a coming for the purpose of attack," from O.Fr. venue "coming," from fem. pp. of venir "to come," from L. venire "to come," from PIE base *gwa- "to go, come" (cf. O.E. cuman "to come;" see come). The sense of "place where a case in law is tried" is first recorded 1530s. Extended to locality in general, especially "site of a concert or sporting event" (1857)).
  2. Game (n): O.E. gamen "joy, fun, amusement," common Gmc. (cf. O.Fris. game, O.N. gaman, O.H.G. gaman "joy, glee"), regarded as identical with Goth. gaman "participation, communion," from P.Gmc. *ga- collective prefix + *mann "person," giving a sense of "people together." Meaning "contest played according to rules" is first attested c.1300. 
  3. Space (n): c.1300, "an area, extent, expanse, lapse of time," aphetic of O.Fr. espace, from L. spatium "room, area, distance, stretch of time," of unknown origin. (v): 1703, "to arrange at set intervals." 
  4. Place (n): O.E. "open space in a city, market place, square," from O.Fr. place, from M.L. placea "place, spot," from L. platea "courtyard, open space, broad street," from Gk. plateia (hodos) "broad (way)," fem. of platys "broad," from PIE *plat- "to spread" (cf. Skt. prathati "spreads out;" Hitt. palhi "broad;" Lith. platus "broad;" Ger. Fladen "flat cake;" O.Ir. lethan "broad"); extended variant form of base *pele- (see plane). Wide application in English, covering meanings that in French require three words: place, lieu, and endroit. Cognates: It. piazza and Sp. plaza retain more of the etymological sense. Broad sense of "material space, dimension of defined or indefinite extent" is from mid-13c. Sense of "position on some social scale" is from early 14c.
  5. Square (n): c.1300, "tool for measuring right angles," from O.Fr. esquire "a square, squareness," from V.L. *exquadra, from *exquadrare "to square," from L. ex- "out" (see ex-) + quadrare "make square," from quadrus "a square," from quattuor "four" (see quart). Meaning "rectangular shape or area" is recorded by late 14c.; replaced O.E. feower-scyte. Sense of "open space in a town or park" is from 1680s. The mathematical sense of "a number multiplied by itself" is first recorded 1550s. The verb is first attested late 14c.
  6. Triangle (n): late 14c., from O.Fr. triangle (13c.), from L. triangulum "triangle," from neut. of adj. triangulus "three-cornered," from tri- "three" (see tri-) + angulus "corner, angle" (see angle: "intersecting lines," late 14c., from L. angulum "corner," a dim. form from PIE base *ang-/*ank- "to bend" (cf. Gk. ankylos "bent, crooked," L. ang(u)ere "to compress in a bend, fold, strangle," O.C.S. aglu "corner," Lith. anka "loop," Skt. ankah "hook, bent," O.E. ancleo "ankle," O.H.G. ango "hook").).
  7. Plane (n): "flat surface," c.1600, from L. plantum "flat surface," properly neut. of adj. planus "flat, level, plain, clear," from PIE *pla-no- (cf. Lith. plonas "thin;" Celtic *lanon "plain;" perhaps also Gk. pelanos "sacrificial cake, a mixture offered to the gods, offering (of meal, honey, and oil) poured or spread"), suffixed form of base *pele- "to spread out, broad, flat" (cf. O.C.S. polje "flat land, field," Rus. polyi "open;" O.E., O.H.G. feld, M.Du. veld "field").
  8. Camp (n): W.Gmc. *kampo-z, an early loan from L. campus "open field, level space" (cf. Fr. champ; see campus), especially "open space for military exercise." Originally borrowed as O.E. camp "contest," this was obsolete by mid-15c. Meaning "place where an army lodges temporarily" is a later reborrowing (1520s), from Fr. camp, from It. campo, from the same L. source. Transferred to non-military senses 1550s. The verb meaning "to encamp" is from 1540s.
  9. Local (adj): late 14c., "pertaining to position," from O.Fr. local, from L.L. localis "pertaining to a place," from L. locus "place" (see locus: 1715, "locality," from L. locus "place," from O.Latin stlocus, lit. "where something is placed," from PIE base *st(h)el- "to cause to stand, to place." Used by Latin writers for Gk. topos). The meaning "limited to a particular place" is from 1610s. 
  10. Global (adj): 1670s, “spherical,” from globe + -al. Meaning “worldwide, universal” is from 1892. Globe (n): 1550s, "sphere," from L. globus "round mass, sphere," related to gleba "clod, soil, land" (see glebe: c.1300, from O.Fr. glebe, from L. gleba "clod, lump," from PIE *glebh- "to roll into a ball" (cf. L. globus "sphere;" O.E. clyppan "to embrace;" Lith. glebys "armful," globti "to embrace, support"). Earliest English sense is "land forming a clergyman's benefice," on notion of soil of the earth as source of vegetable products).

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Nick Kahler + Toni Cliett, Technomad Dwelling as Grasshopper Model

I've debated for over a week now about what my 1000th post would be. The truth is I'm at that point in the semester where I'm not really generating any "final" work. Therefore, I'd like to show my / Toni's work on Grasshopper, the Parametric Modeling Plug-In for Rhino. It's a "super-powerful" program, one that I'm really happy I'm learning. I'm also liking how I'm getting better at Photoshop, with help from Toni and Anthony. Either way, here's where my work is at right now and the rest of the posts about the seemingly-random things I like will continue shortly.

Technomad dwellings are designed for certain existing and self-classified type of nomad, one that functions in society in a predominantly digital manner. Thus, these nomads are isolated from one another and from the basic structures of a physical community. Our goal is to incite physical, as well as digital, togetherness through the physical act of construction of and cohabitation in a series of clustered  dwellings.

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