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E. Chiappone-Piriou:
"Mereologies, Symposium on Theories of Parts, distributive thinking and their architectures";
Talk: B-Pro Prospective Lecture Series, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, London (invited); 2019-04-25.

Mereology is that which describes the relationship between parts and their whole. It has always played an
important role in architecture whether as part of an order, a harmonious joining of building components, as part of
a representation of space, a partition of spaces, or a contradiction to it.
Every form of architecture begins with an idea of how parts become a whole, and how this whole relates to other
parts. But the sheer performance of today's computation makes it possible to form a world without a whole,
without any third party or third object.
In this symposium we discuss the theories and the specifics of part-relations. On the difference between parts and
the whole, on the sharing of machines and their aesthetics, on the difference between distributive and collective,
their ethical commitments, and the possibilities of building mereologies.