{"id":3434,"date":"2013-10-11T15:55:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T14:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2013-10-11T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T14:55:03","slug":"open-lecture-nic-clear-a-strange-newness-architecture-as-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/2013\/10\/11\/open-lecture-nic-clear-a-strange-newness-architecture-as-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Lecture :: Nic Clear :: A Strange Newness; Architecture as Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Open Lecture Series 2013\/2014<\/li>\n<li>Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre \/ M055<\/li>\n<li>Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday 16th October; 6PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3438\" alt=\"131016_flyer_NicClear\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/131016_flyer_NicClear1.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/131016_flyer_NicClear1.jpg 440w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/131016_flyer_NicClear1-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Literary critic Darko Suvin contends that science fiction is a \u2018literature of cognitive estrangement\u2019 expressing an \u2018exclusive interest in a strange newness, a novum\u2019; any survey of the most advanced architectural production of the last one hundred years reveals the existence of whole series of fictional \u2018novum\u2019 even if they are not explicitly labelled as such. As part of this definition Suvin also equates the idea of utopia as a \u2018socio-political sub-genre of Science Fiction\u2019. Given that architectural theory has had such a close affinity with Utopian ideas it seems remarkable that the conception of architecture \u2018as\u2019 science fiction has not been made more clearly, until now.<\/p>\n<p>Nic Clear is the Head of the Department of Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich School of Architecture, Design and Construction. For over fifteen years Nic has been at the forefront of the use of the moving image in architectural education, developing an innovative design research and teaching practice using digital film and animation in the generation, development and representation of architectural spaces and practices. Nic edited the issue of Architectural Design Architectures of the Near Future based around the work of J.G. Ballard and has written the Architecture section for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook Of Science Fiction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Lecture Series 2013\/2014 Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre \/ M055 Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus Wednesday 16th October; 6PM Literary critic Darko Suvin contends that science fiction is a \u2018literature of cognitive estrangement\u2019 expressing an \u2018exclusive interest in a strange newness, a novum\u2019; any survey of the most advanced architectural production of the last one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-3434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-open-lectures","tag-nic-clear"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}