“The distinction between the digital and the physical is only becoming increasingly blurry. It’s difficult to imagine getting through a day without the assistance of a data-rich device, and not just in the major population centers of the Global North. These ‘extensions of man’ feel fully grafted onto us, pretty much everywhere and at all times. No wonder: we live in a world in which so much depends on and is designed for computability. Sensors are overhead, underfoot, on and even in our bodies, feeding data from our work and play to machines that process it, send it back to us, and then on to others. This flow, and the equipment that generates it, is part of the contemporary design environment. Furthermore, it has effectively rewritten the meaning of computation, which is no longer just the ability to calculate, but has also become a process that integrates data with space and remakes the world.”
@kurganl & Adam Vosburgh on Spatial Computing, a collaboration between
@e_flux Architecture and the M.S. in Computational Design Practices Program (MSCDP) at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University.
Kurgan’s book, CLOSE UP AT A DISTANCE is available in full color paperback edition.
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