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Ruins of the smart city: a visual intervention
Visual Communication ( IF 1.2 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-26 , DOI: 10.1177/1470357220919265
Emma Fraser 1 , Clancy Wilmott 2
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The visual imaginary of the future city is increasingly dichotomized between visions of hyper-technological digital urbanism and the city in a state of ruin, without people, overtaken by nature. These alternating imaginaries key into concerns over urban futures, as questions of sustainability and rising inequality come to bear on urban life. Such binary imaginaries produce volumes of visual material, lauding and critiquing philosophies of newness, endless progress and the city without decline. This article uses an inventive visual methodology to ask how these imaginaries become situated in the everyday ecologies of living. This methodology focuses on several so-called ‘brownfield’ sites in Salford, UK, and the ‘smart’ Oxford Road Corridor in neighbouring Manchester, to playfully and visually map the entanglement of digital urban ecologies through the themes of wilderness, play and compost. These three themes relate to the pleasure of urban wilderness described by Rose Macaulay, reflecting on London’s wild ruins after the Second World War; the playful contrast between smart urbanism and urban wastelands, understood through interdisciplinary visual methods; and Haraway’s notion of compost as the fertile ground of collaboration that marks a material–semiotic entanglement between place, people and nature. The authors investigate how these frameworks reflect the diversity of urban ecology (animals, plants and humans) and might provide an alternative vision of how the city could be, a vision built from how the city currently is.

中文翻译:

智慧城市的废墟:视觉干预

未来城市的视觉想象在超技术数字城市化的愿景和处于废墟状态的城市之间日益分化,没有人,被自然取代。随着可持续性和日益加剧的不平等问题对城市生活产生影响,这些交替的想象成为人们对城市未来的担忧的关键。这种二元的想象产生了大量的视觉材料,赞美和批评新奇的哲学,无尽的进步和没有衰落的城市。本文使用一种创造性的视觉方法来探究这些想象如何进入日常生活的生态环境。这种方法侧重于英国索尔福德的几个所谓的“棕地”站点,以及邻近曼彻斯特的“智能”牛津路走廊,通过荒野、游戏和堆肥等主题,有趣地、直观地描绘数字城市生态的纠缠。这三个主题与罗斯·麦考利(Rose Macaulay)描述的城市荒野的乐趣有关,反映了二战后伦敦的荒野废墟;通过跨学科的视觉方法理解智能城市主义和城市荒地之间的有趣对比;以及 Haraway 的概念,即堆肥是合作的沃土,标志着地方、人与自然之间的物质符号纠缠。作者调查了这些框架如何反映城市生态(动物、植物和人类)的多样性,并可能为城市的未来提供另一种愿景,即根据城市现状构建的愿景。这三个主题与罗斯·麦考利(Rose Macaulay)描述的城市荒野的乐趣有关,反映了二战后伦敦的荒野废墟;通过跨学科的视觉方法理解智能城市主义和城市荒地之间的有趣对比;以及 Haraway 的概念,即堆肥是合作的沃土,标志着地方、人与自然之间的物质符号纠缠。作者调查了这些框架如何反映城市生态(动物、植物和人类)的多样性,并可能为城市的未来提供另一种愿景,即根据城市现状构建的愿景。这三个主题与罗斯·麦考利(Rose Macaulay)描述的城市荒野的乐趣有关,反映了二战后伦敦的荒野废墟;通过跨学科的视觉方法理解智能城市主义和城市荒地之间的有趣对比;以及 Haraway 的概念,即堆肥是合作的沃土,标志着地方、人与自然之间的物质符号纠缠。作者调查了这些框架如何反映城市生态(动物、植物和人类)的多样性,并可能为城市的未来提供另一种愿景,即根据城市现状构建的愿景。通过跨学科的视觉方法理解;以及 Haraway 的概念,即堆肥是合作的沃土,标志着地方、人与自然之间的物质符号纠缠。作者调查了这些框架如何反映城市生态(动物、植物和人类)的多样性,并可能为城市的未来提供另一种愿景,即根据城市现状构建的愿景。通过跨学科的视觉方法理解;以及 Haraway 的概念,即堆肥是合作的沃土,标志着地方、人与自然之间的物质符号纠缠。作者调查了这些框架如何反映城市生态(动物、植物和人类)的多样性,并可能为城市的未来提供另一种愿景,即根据城市现状构建的愿景。
更新日期:2020-05-26
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