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“If our everyday objects are digital and no longer physical, how does it challenge ecological questions?”
Digital Structures
Data and Urban Strategies of the Civic Future
$35.00
digitalSTRUCTURES and the corresponding mixed digital media project explore contemporary issues on how Western and Eastern countries define the future of work and urban living. The research provokes interrogations of the post-COVID-19 digital era, pertaining to supply chains, data structures, urban strategies, construction, and civic planning for the cities of our future.
Size: 5” x 8” Portrait
Pages: 240pp
Binding: Softbound
Publication Date: Spring 2023
ISBN: 978-1-954081-81-9
Price: $35.00
World Rights: Available
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Overview
‘Digital Structures: Data and Urban Strategies of the Civic Future’ provokes a larger body of work that engages with digital property and data infrastructures. Digital currencies (cryptocurrencies) and digital property require large amounts of land, resources, and data centers and infrastructures to store these “supplies.” There is a larger architectural and urban infrastructural challenge and urgency on how these various kinds of digital exchanges are mediated, to limit the detrimental use of our everyday resources. If our everyday objects are digital and no longer physical, how does it challenge ecological questions? How does this affect the future of urban living?
The case-studies, interviews, and guest contributions prompt discussions that were part of the CityX Venice, Sezione del Padiglione Italia, at the 17th La Biennale di Venezia. Guest contributors were prompted to challenge and provoke the topics that are questioning the issues of open innovation models that operate a city, robotics and artificial intelligent systems, supply chains affected by digital storage, and data infrastructural arguments that play a large role within our Web 3.0 urban digital and real landscapes.
Authors
Wendy W Fok is non-binary, trained architect, educator, and BIPOC designer, interested in the issues of digital property and data infrastructures. On their spare time, Fok interests include modifying motorcycles, obsessing over the built environment, prototyping design applications for the future of urban living, and designing in digital and analogue.
Fok has a Doctor of Design from Harvard University, a Master of Architecture and Certification of Urban Policy/Planning from Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with a Concentration in Economics (Statistics) from Barnard College, Columbia University.
Other contributors
Guest Contributors (Written/Interviews) Jesse Reiser, Saskia Sassen, Minerva Tantoco, Andrew Witt, Mik Naayem, Lydia Kallipoliti, Jimenez Lai, Greg Lynn, Kutan Ayata & Michael Young, and Amber Bartosh
Graphics Layout & Research Design Team: Rachel Pendleton, Yarzar Hlaing, Isabelle ‘Iza’ Dabrowski, Tara Akdora, JJ Jin, Jessica Marquez, and Lucy C. Liu
Cover Design: Hyun Jung Ahn
Language & Copy Editor: Irina T. Oryshkevich
Additional Info
Size: 5” x 8” Portrait
Pages: 240pp
Binding: Softbound
Publication Date: Spring 2023
ISBN: 978-1-954081-81-9
Price: $35.00
World Rights: Available
