Last evening I had a pleasure of taking part in a panel discussion with professor Ewa Kuryłowicz and Ola Wasilkowska. Krzysztof Sołoducha was the moderator of the panel.

The discussion followed a projection of an hour-long interview with Zaha Hadid. This is where the notion of “digital baroque” comes from. Treating Hadid’s work as a starting point we talked about the potential of parametric modeling and generative (or algorithmic) methodologies in general. Notions such as bottom-up approach to design, optimization as well as well-defined and ill-defined design problems came up in the course of the talk.

It was the last night of the four-days long Arch Film Fest – a festival of movies related to architecture organized by sztuka-architektury.pl in Centre of Contemporary Art in Warsaw.

Many thanks to Krzysztof Sołoducha for the invitation.