DigitalFUTURES World: Democratizing Education

DigitalFUTURES is an independent online platform for architectural education, staffed and run by volunteers. We aim to make important educational ideas available for free to architects and students across the planet, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, or economic standing. Education, we believe, should be a human right and not the privilege of the wealthy.

DigitalFUTURES operates throughout the year, offering talks and tutorials in several languages. Although our primary focus is architecture – and in particular advanced architectural technologies – we also address social equality, environmental concerns, and other important issues. Recordings of all sessions are uploaded to YouTube, to form a permanent repository of educational materials, available for free to all.

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Architecture & Philosophy 2025 #6 Dulmini Perera - Gregory Bateson Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, and systems thinker—best known for his work across disciplines like anthropology, cybernetics, psychology, and ecology. He had a deep interest in how systems (like minds, societies, or ecosystems) communicate and organize themselves. Dr. Dulmini Perera is Associate Professor of architectural theory at the University of Limerick. Before, she was a scientific staff member in the Theory and History of Modern Architecture Department at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Dulmini’s research focuses on the complex systemic relations between ecological questions and questions concerning technology within the context of architecture and design. She is particularly interested in histories and theories that emerge from architecture(design)'s encounters with other disciplines that engage with complex living systems (particularly cybernetics, systems sciences and philosophy of technology) and the ways in which the social, political aspects of these encounters keep influencing our present-day knowledge and practice models. 🔹 Guest Speaker: Dulmini Perera (University of Limerick) 🔹 Date: April 6, 2025 🔹 Time: 10 AM EDT 🔹 Live on YouTube: DigitalFUTURES YouTube Channel
Architecture & Philosophy 2025 #6 Dulmini Perera - Gregory Bateson
April 5 at 10 am EST Speakers: Alexandre Kuroda Mariana Grunschy Victor Sardenberg Marcella Carone Moderators: Anne Save de Beaurecueil Franklin Lee Language: English
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ARCHITECTURE + PHILOSOPHY Although marginalized for much of his academic career, the German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel (1858–1918) proved to be a highly original thinker who made a substantial contribution to establishing sociology as an autonomous field of study. Antipathy towards his individualized style of writing and unconventional subject matter, combined with anti-semitism and resistance to sociology as an academic discipline, effectively prevented Simmel from obtaining a regular faculty appointment until late in life. Yet in his studies of seemingly mundane everyday phenomena, such as money, sexuality and contemporary urban life, Simmel is now recognized as having offered some penetrating insights into the consciousness of modernity. 🔹 Guest Speaker: Georgia Giannakopoulou,PhD - The American College of Greece 🔹 Date: March 30, 2025 🔹 Time: 10 AM EDT 🔹 Live on YouTube: DigitalFUTURES YouTube Channel
Architecture & Philosophy 2025 #5 Georgia Giannakopoulou - Georg Simmel
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