This week our guest lecturer Jose Sanchez, invited as part of the Winter Lecture Series 2016, inspired the audience with his lecture: Architectures for the Commons.

Architecture of the Commons is a lecture that emerges as a form of resistance to a parametric agenda and the socio-economical implications it entails.

Central to the argument is a criticism of the competition model in architectural design, that has conquered the decision-making process of public architecture, parametrizing the free labor of young architects and design firms and devalued the practice of the discipline.

By rediscovering the commons in an age of social connectivity, it is possible to make an argument for the production of design and value in distributed non-exploitative networks. The advocation of parts and discrete architectures is rooted in a necessity of a vast combinatorial library that can allow design to perpetually remain novel in the hands of an active social system.

The advent of technologies like video games comes to reinforce the role of human intelligence that is coupled with algorithmic augmentations.