{cityscape.at}

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build the city around yourself


scope creep

The Situationist International made the point of interest shift from focussing on producer / product to emphasize on a user's perspective. Drifting a geographical space (dérive), psycho-geographically mapping a content (psychogéographie), making inventive use of obsolete structures (détournement) and the revolution of everyday life-, they made their way into established architectural practice: as city walk, cognitive mapping, temporary usage and design responding to the everyday. What about re-contextualising them within current phenomena?

Guy Debord's city map, on the right, maps a metro-user's perception of the city as opposed to traditional city maps; It becomes visible how a topology of a map might be re-appropriated for a user's means: a scope creep.

The intention inherent in {cityscape.at} is to design space with a refined construction hidden within. It might be about playing with the obvious and about pushing boundaries, or about re-appropriating outdated topologies through inventive use. It is the manipulated moving image and immersive landscapes which are able to produce a more plastic reality than ordinary 2d imagery. They allude to incontinuity in human perception and correspond more to the way we perceive the world.

"[..]the limitations of traditional systems of representation - which assume a fixed projection representing the fixed point of view of a static subject - are now contested through the use of interactive and time-based media, media that radically reconfigure the range of what falls under the scope of the architectural."
Nic Clear & Iain Borden; Urbanisms, in: Bartlett Designs, Speculating with Architecture; 2009; John Wiley&Sons Ltd.


What does a dérive look like in a space informed by the loss of a particular, sole locality?


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