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visualising a design - article synopsis

Article:
'Infiltrated city, augmented space: information and communication tecnologies, and representations of contemporary spatialities' - Fabio Duarte, Rodrigo Jose Firmino
The Journal of Architecture, Volume 14, Number 5

Synopsis:
The article discusses the idea of communication technologies being increasingly incorporated into our daily lives and the fabric of our urban spaces. As technology advances and evolves, the network becomes more intense and convoluted but at the same time, it becomes more invisible as they become embedded into our daily lives and they dictate the spaces that we live in.

The article incorporates this idea of this tecehonology catalyzing various experimental and spatial dimensions of cities and urban places. The article starts off by clarifying how technology has influences our living environment and built space and describing this particular scenario that they’ve identified. A simple example is how the humble television set has become so incorporated into our daily lives and thus dictate our living space at home. Another idea that they discuss, that the majority of structures, have a ‘microchip’ embedded into its functioning.

The article develops their argument by using 2 examples by contemporary thinkers. Lucrecia Ferrara alludes to this notion by discussing how the urban landscape is coated with glossy images through media and signs and questions that will reveal the true character of a city environment if we reveal this glossy surface. The authors suggest that if we remove this layer, we no longer have the essence of the city, and that really we can’t isolate the physical built environment from technological layer. Nelson Brissac Peixoto experiments with investigating how abandoned urban spaces can be interpreted in multiple ways depending on how the spaces can be manipulated and represented by different users. He addresses the idea that a space can’t be read just as a space and that how it is used will define a space. This can be linked backed by saying that a urban environment isn’t defined by built spaces, but all that is integrated with it.