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Throwing dice for non-gamblers
2024

40th Anniversary Symposium on Cooperation and Exchange between Southeast University and ETH Zurich in Nanjing, China.
Reimagining Architecture: Navigating the Impact of Computing and Artificial Intelligence

Starting with a tapestry from 1959 called Les dés sont jetés (The Dice are Cast) by Le Corbusier (1887-1965), this paper aims to open up the Greek word διακυβεύω, meaning ‘to play at dice with’, or ‘mit Einem würfeln’. Jørn Utzon commissioned the Swiss Architect to create a piece that would hang in the Sydney Opera House. The decorative work with its declarative title leaves no room to connect with the aleatory and statistical prehistories of probabilistic thinking. And yet, since the dice are thrown, they allude to the modernist prerogative of not dealing with uncertainty and ignoring the universe of a yet-to-be-thrown dice. Given the etymological connection of the hazardous with the dice, the paper aims to explore the chances that a non-gambler like Le Corbusier would engage with the probabilistic without the popular apocalyptic para-philology. As a physical object, the dice was shaped by the uniform materials like ivory (Hacking, 1999) that would ensure a certain objective equidistance from the cases to be. As a digital object, that technical material property that safeguards the game is missing, producing a gap, in our relationship with uncertainty. What is the διακύβευμα, the result of throwing the dice, then? Is there anything puritanical in the way we see chance today? What tapestry are we weaving and how do we think within the naughty, self-referential environment of Large Language Models?

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Research, Conference, ATTP

Le Corbusier, 1959, Les dés sont jetés, www.jstor.org/stable/community.9485523

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