The Aspen Complex

Martin Beck, Sabeth Buchmann, Felicity D. Scott , Alice Twemlow

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Sternberg Press
06 April 2012

Industrial: Commercial Art & Design

Martin Beck's exhibition ""Panel 2-'Nothing better than a touch of ecology and catastrophe to unite the social classes...'"" draws on the events of the 1970 International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA) and the development of the Aspen Movie Map to form a visual environment that reflects the interrelations between art, architecture, design, ecology, and social movements.

The 1970 IDCA marked a turning point in design thinking. The conference's theme, ""Environment by Design,"" brought together venerable figures of modern design in the United States, including Eliot Noyes, George Nelson, and Saul Bass; environmental collectives and activist architects from Berkeley such as the Environmental Action Group, Sim Van der Ryn, and Ant Farm; as well as a group of French designers and sociologists, among them Jean Aubert, Lionel Schein, and Jean Baudrillard. The conference quickly escalated into a site of unresolvable conflict about communication formats and the potential role of design for environmental practices in a rapidly changing society.

The ensuing decade heralded the development of an interactive navigation system, which used the same Colorado resort town as its test site. The Aspen Movie Map-initiated by MIT's Architecture Machine Group (the predecessor to the Media Lab) and partially funded by the US Department of Defense-is an image-based surrogate travel system using footage filmed in Aspen. Meant to prepare users for quick orientation in places they have never been to, the Aspen Movie Map was a seminal prototype for today's military and consumer navigation systems.

The Aspen Complex documents two versions of Beck's exhibition-at London's Gasworks and Columbia University's Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery-and brings together yet unpublished archival material and new research on the 1970 IDCA and the Aspen Movie Map.

By: Martin Beck
Preface by: Sabeth Buchmann, Felicity D. Scott, Alice Twemlow
Imprint: Sternberg Press
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 239mm, Width: 180mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 685g
ISBN: 9783943365078
ISBN 10: 3943365077
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 06 April 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sabeth Buchmann, an art historian and critic, is Professor of Modern and Postmodern Art and Head of the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Felicity D. Scott is Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where she directs the PhD program in architecture and codirects the program in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture. She is the author of Architecture or Techno-utopia- Politics after Modernism (MIT Press). Alice Twemlow, a writer, lecturer, and curator, is Co-head of the Masters Program in Design Curating and Writing at Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands. From 2008 to 2016, she was Founding Chair of the Masters Program in Design Research, Writing, and Criticism at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

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