Orgasm Modeled
Ronnie Gensler, student in Columbia University's architecture program, has achieved the impossible: a three-dimensional representation of an orgasm!
An article in the the Columbia Spectator cover's Gensler's project, though for the most part exposes to the rest of the University the unconventional aspects of the department's program and the day-to-day workings of a major most people find equally fascinating and baffling.
It's an interesting project hat has been quite elegantly executed.
The Columbia article specifically claims the students are uniquely more aware of the social, etc. Is this supposed to be the example? A dumbed-down, typical geek definition of the orgasm as but "increased blood pressure, oxygen, and adrenaline". Orgasm... detached from any social syntax, only an engineering task. And one that looks suspiciously like some second-year Frei Otto student's rejected nature studies. None of that scripting, iterative stuff here - just old fashioned engineered "symmetry of nature", devoid of that messy culture - i.e. people, society. A "scientific" model of orgasm (gender-free no less) devoid of any link to meaning, subjectivity, much less society and people - isn't that a great definition for this new architecture being taught.
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