Ethical Machines is a series of conversations about Humans, Machines & Ethics. It aims at sparking a deeper, better informed debate about the implications of intelligent systems for society and individuals. Your hosts, Roelof Pieters & Samim Winiger, explore these important topics with experts and thought leaders in a regular podcast format. ethicalmachines.com
For episode eight of Ethical Machines, we had the pleasure of talking with John Hong, Associate Professor for Architecture at Seoul National University. In this fascinating conversation, we talk about Architecture, City scale generative systems, augmentation, open source, psychedelic architecture, mass-unemployment and the new commons.
About:
John Hong received a Master in Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a B.Sc. in Architecture with Honors from the University of Virginia. He has served as Associate Professor in Practice at the Harvard GSD, and has held visiting professorships at other major universities including the University of Pennsylvania and as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the City College of New York. He is co-founder of the award winning practice SsD with offices in NY and Seoul. His work has been exhibited at international venues including the 2014 Venice Biennale as well as published in major media such as Architectural Record, Metropolis Magazine, Dwell Magazine, The New Yorker, and Space Magazine. His built projects have garnered many prestigious awards including fourteen AIA awards, Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard, the Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League NY, a Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction Award, and the Metropolis Next Generation Prize to name a few. His writing on contemporary architectural culture has been published widely including in the book ‘Convergent Flux: Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in Korea,’ as well as in the article ‘Interdependent Urbanism’ (Birkhauser).
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