Ian Nazareth
ABSTRACT
(Un)real Estates is a project and platform that explores a counterfactual narrative of the physical city and its digital counterpart. It is a provocation about the commercialisation of the infrastructure of the spatial internet. (Un)real Estates presents a proto-architectural sequence and experience between particles and pixels, matter, and event.
In virtual jumpspace, machines and search terms hallucinate spatial configurations, while random probability distributions and large language models generate new topologies. This creates a stochastic architecture that is the inadvertent realisation of an architectural fantasy - architecture without architecture.
The project integrates digital media techniques and architectural design syntax to explore an immersive architectural experience where the physical and virtual are fused as seamless interfaces. The project provides new ways of engaging with the built environment, and operates at limits of material practice, extending the spaces open to the architectural imagination.
(Un)real Estates forestalls the terminal end of the metropolitan experiment and is an epistle to the post-urban technotopia, with all its manifold tensions and misgivings. It is a postscript for the city on the cusp of a technological singularity. By presenting a near-future scenario, (Un)real Estates serves as a cautionary tale to consider the potential consequences of the unabridged networked speculative enterprise.
The project responds to the theme of (dis)engagement, and utilises AI, Machine Learning, explores subjects of data extractivism, data governance, physical and digital artefacts, and decentralised blockchain and digital ledger technologies.
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