CIVA X SPEC ULOOS
Chronodot
The famous timelines by architect Charles Jencks are not only important for understanding the history of architecture. They also stand out for their visual quality: curves resembling evolutionary trees, carefully crafted contrasts, and a highly precise typographic composition that makes the complexity of architectural movements readable.
In the experimental workshop "Chronodot", we will use open-source software developed in the late 20th century by AT&T, originally designed to visualize the American telephone networks. We will creatively repurpose this tool to collaboratively and in real time build our own time maps.
This collective work will gradually reveal tensions and unexpected forms. The software, with its 30-year-old algorithms, will produce results very different from Jencks’s refined compositions. But it is precisely in these imperfections that the interest lies: a playful and creative way to revisit the history of visual representation.
No programming skills are required. The workshop is open to everyone aged 15 and over, and can be followed on a smartphone or, more comfortably, on a laptop.
Animated by : Pierre Huyghebaert, graphic designer, typographer, and cartographer at Studio Spec uloos and the Bistre collective, teaches in the Master’s program in Typography at La Cambre. For this workshop, he draws on tools and software mashups developed and used since 2006 with the Open Source Publishing collective.
