McAndrew, CL;
Sermon, P;
(2017)
Hyperlocal Imaginaries.
Presented at: sIREN Conference 2017: Arts and Digital Practices, Edinburgh, UK.
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Abstract
From Peter Cook’s Plug-In City — of the radical 1960s Archigram group, to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, fictional narratives can contest urban realities and envision alternative futures. The Visual History of the Future (2014) commissioned under the UK Government’s Foresight Future of Cities Project, is a reminder of the relevance and power of the imagined entering mainstream architectural consciousness. The edited volume 4D HYPERLOCAL (Bullivant 2017) even considers city-making in today’s platform society — with hackable cities used to create alternative urban imaginaries, de Waal et al suggest: ‘The success of cities partially lies in the fact that they are open platforms’ offering a ‘redistribution of power in practices of city making’ (p.52). 3×4 contributes to such social imaginary by providing a platform to see informal settlements differently, disrupting common perceptions through artistic performance: 3x4m.org. 3×4 metres are the dimensions of some resettlement colonies in New Delhi. Cities such as London, are also seeing reductions in living space, with ‘affordability’ translated into ‘smaller’. Connecting public audiences at Khoj Studio (Delhi) and the Southbank Centre (London) via an immersive, telematic installation, opened opportunities to participate in the city and practice new ways of seeing. Citizens were invited to upload and co-create images of 3×4 metre living spaces. Crossing reality with fiction, these became the background scenes in which audiences were co-located. Artistic performance can bring built and imagined spaces closer together. It is from this search for alternative imaginaries at the fold of physical place and digital space that future cities will arise.
| Type: | Conference item (Presentation) |
|---|---|
| Title: | Hyperlocal Imaginaries |
| Event: | sIREN Conference 2017: Arts and Digital Practices |
| Location: | Edinburgh, UK |
| Dates: | 30 - 31 May 2017 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.siren.eca.ed.ac.uk/conference-2017/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | hyperlocal, telematic, city making, urban imaginaries |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1559342 |
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