Sunee Yoo, Manfredini Studio. Multiplying/revealing the spectacle, exploding/expanding representation at the center of the border: Binocular view of the 38th parallel north
What happens when the sensor-imbued city acquires the ability to see – almost as if it had eyes? Ahead of the 2019 Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), titled “Urban Interactions,” Archdaily is working with the curators of the “Eyes of the City” section at the Biennial to stimulate a discussion on how new technologies – and Artificial Intelligence in particular – might impact architecture and urban life. Here you can read the “Eyes of the City” curatorial statement by Carlo Ratti, the Politecnico di Torino and SCUT.
Two key phenomena of contemporary spatial production are critically challenging the integral resilience of present-day communities: translocalization and transduction. Their increasing pervasion and dynamism are profoundly transforming our society. Translocalization is the redefinition of territorialization patterns due to an increasing mobilization of people and things that dissipate the continuity, cohesion and permanentness of traditional social and spatial networks. Transduction implies the coming together of heterogeneous forces in either progressive iterative processes or irregular ones that restructure given domains into provisional unities through the diffusion of an exogenous activity. The combination of these two phenomena within an environment pervaded by augmented and mixed realities produces unprecedented metastable spatialities with powerful, yet ambivalent, relational capacities.