Post-Internet Cities (The Temporal City)

Masters Architecture Studio Semester 2 2023 | Ian Nazareth & David Schwarzman

The studio speculates about a possible, domain of urban and architectural invention – i.e., a city’s imminent escape from cadastral space, embracing virtual realms and digital ubiquity, and the hyper-reality of the virtual space as mooring of invisible cultural, economic, and societal forces. It aims to make specific trajectories visible - where technological shifts might get inscribed in the urban process and therefore crystallised in architectural practice. The studio operates at limits of material and spatial practice, (between the physical, the virtual and holographic) engaging with real-time, urban data analytics, simulation / gamification, techno-cultural discourse / narrative, AI and generative techniques.

The Temporal City (∆T)6 is part of an anthology of The Temporal City, that is a hypothesis and model that presents the urban condition as kinetic processes that are simultaneously and synchronously enabled by the flow of data, energy, people and logistics. It proposes a spatial operating system, a stream of inputs and outputs and an organic mechanism that forestalls a chronologically-based urbanism. Traditional and static principles of the city are upturned. The Temporal City is not about absolutes or repeatable spatial products - but a context and framework that embraces and amplifies indeterminate, contradictory, combinatory, uncertain and improbable conditions. It is opportunistic. Agility instead of stability, multipliers rather than repetition. Change, difference, and time are accelerated. The complexity of its systems benefits from variability, unpredictability, and imbalance.

Wednesday evenings 17.00 - 21.00, 100.10.001