2011年8月4日 星期四

The New Real: 擴增城市

當今的網路發展持續下去,我們能夠預見一個未來。那個未來裡,人跟網路是永遠連結著的,透過遠比現在更快、更穩定、更普及的方式連結著。有人說是靠著腦內種植晶片,有的說是靠著突破性的生物技術,總而言之,人類打從一出生,就連結著網際網路,一直到去世。網際網路有個新名字,叫做CI-集體智能。每個人與CI的連結,徹底改變了人類的貿易、政治、以及社會結構。在那個未來裡,人們生活的世界是真實環境與擴增實境的混合,是物理性環境跟資訊交流的重疊。在這樣的世界裡,建築的價值…你說他喪失了也好,你說他昇華了也好…

[CI]

Collective Intelligence-集體智能。像Wikipedia一樣,每個與網路連結的人貢獻自己的智慧,再經過所有人的不斷修改,CI是個不斷自我優化的集合體,是權力下放的真正民主,他既取代了教育,也取代了政府,取代了市場經濟,又同時是每個人的基本權利,如同活著的權利。而每個人對CI上傳與下載資訊的「量」和「速度」,是新世界的貨幣基準。

[一個建築]
什麼叫建築?不再有人這麼稱呼他了,他跟水系統、道路系統、能源系統、還有資訊傳遞系統一樣,人們統稱為基礎建設,是乘載一切人類活動的基底當中的一項。有其必要,但是你看不到-至少你永遠看不到他赤裸裸的樣子。建築成了背景-用來投射所有材質、顏色、景象、資訊和欲望的背景。和下水道的預鑄水泥管一樣,也和鋪滿道路的柏油材料一樣,建築剩下一種材料,一種可以被大量、快速製造又快速組裝的材料,甚至可以自行移動延展,極簡而必要的存在-成為你行走的地面、遮風避雨的屋頂、迫使你轉向的牆面。他變得很單調,但是很有效率,好比你不會抱怨全世界的柏油路都長一個樣,而會讚嘆路面上五顏六色的跑車,成就著五花八門的生活一樣。建築,僅僅是用來投射資訊和欲望的背景。

[一個城市]
擴增實境充斥的城市-姑且稱為擴增城市,和傳統城市一樣,有核心也有邊緣。如果你了解華爾街各家公司盡可能的靠近data center 是為了爭取比別人快那零點零零幾秒的市場資訊,那麼你也可以了解在這個擴增城市裡,富有,是指離得CI Center越近的核心,貧窮,是離得越遠的邊緣區域。CI的核心區域,是個資訊爆炸的地段,每一分每一秒都在發生不同的事,市容也在每分每秒改變,所有的活動、交易、娛樂都在這個地方。曾經聽說過有人在這邊因為意外而「斷了線」,斷了與CI的連結,目睹了裸露的城市-白茫茫的一片,沒有「建築」,只有飛來飛去、快速移動著的平板,上頭的人,也是赤裸裸的白…。他們說,當這些人目睹到了城市裸體,都立刻喪失了心智…。而又因為CI Center僅僅是人們聚集密度最高的區域,這個擴增城市可以游移,在衝撞舊世界或衝撞另一個擴增城市的邊緣上,發生侵蝕…

[侵蝕]
稱得上古蹟的老房子,終究承受不了時間的侵蝕,人們勉強把他凍結在時空裡而慢慢忘記了靜止的意義,成了新世界的絆腳石;稱不上老房子的半調子,終究抗拒不了資訊的侵蝕,有的被拆了牆,用新材料填裝,被批妝上層層的訊息脂粉,他們稱之為「進化」。

[城市之間]
新世界有好多個擴增城市,他們在舊城市的邊緣誕生。誰說破壞容易建設難?要在空曠一片的地方建立全新的CI城市,遠比改造舊城市來的容易太多了。某些舊城市被刻意凍結以便研究或參觀,有些被遺棄,有些則是被那些「自我放逐」、甘願放棄「資訊」這個基本人權的「逃離者」們視為最後的淨土,他們把氣味、觸感、顏色等等永遠一成不便的東西都當成了寶…。站在CI核心向遠處望,在目眩神迷的城市景色末端,看到了好幾個世紀前的時代符號-巴黎鐵塔,那是被CI列定為歷史保留區的地方。另一頭,一位逃離者站在舊世界的鐵塔上向這邊望,望著白茫茫的一片,望著這個什麼都不是的地方…。





[GSD project] The New Real - The World of Augmented Reality

The New Real - The World of Augmented Reality

Harvard GSD 2011 : 3421 New Geographies: Imagining a City-World Beyond Cosmopolis
Instructor: A. Hashim Sarkis
Project members: Nicholas Croft, Aneesha Dharwadker, Mariusz Klemens, Yu-Ta Lin, Elizabeth MacWillie, William Quattlebaum, Trude Renwick, Mary Grace Verges, Clementina Vinals.
Thesis revised: Nicholas Croft

Architecture is either a background for augmented reality or a preserved, pre-augmentation, artifact; the current fabric of the built world exists, but within emergent regions driven by Collective Intelligence (CI), architecture transforms into a tectonically uniform version of itself.  It is in these regions that design acquires meaning through non-material imagery.

Augmented regions are fluid in nature—perpetually redefining themselves and their boundaries as a result of a complex collective-CI feedback loop—yet at any given moment, clearly defined boundaries demarcate the influence of the augmented world on the physical one.Collective Intelligence, as an advanced stage in the evolution of the Internet, controls the technologies of augmented reality, facilitates algorithmic forms of governance based on collective input, and aids in the increasingly efficient cycling of data.

Certain aspects of the world become virtual, while others remain physical. The transportation of people and goods occurs in real space, while events like voting, banking, shopping, and so forth, are anchored in the virtual realm. The processes through which humans go to acquire goods and services no longer require individual spatial displacement. The world undergoes physical spatial compression, but a virtual expansion occurs through user experiences. Through the digital augmentation of space, inhabitants can experience infinite depth.

The individual’s interaction with the world occurs through a personal interface, which allows the user to make choices about the visual composition of his or her environment. Connection to augmented reality is a choice, not an obligation – but it determines the ability of the user to access information and gain knowledge. As a result, physical proximity to CI centers allows for a faster exchange of information. Public spaces become “servers,” where individuals can collectively plug in to the increasing mass of data. The economy is thus run on memory – both the memory of the individual, and his or her ownership of digital space. Bytes become currency, and are incorporated into the public sphere, giving more power to classes without access to physical wealth. Corporations collaborate with the CI to govern the physical realm, providing generic hardware for servers, bandwidth, interfaces, and architecture. The differentiation of these objects occurs virtually, based solely on the choices of the user. 


Infrastructure
Interreigionality




New Geographies
Mega-Form
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