OP CITY explored how the urban future may be extrapolated or "produced" by observing the city in new ways that these technologies afford—from mapping and diagrams to graphic narrative, gaming/motion graphics and digitally-manipulated photography.

Live Modeling a Queer Urbanism - Jonathan Crisman & Steven Beckly

Project Project attempts to understand and design for queer space of St. James Town in Toronto, Canada in a spatial manner, rather than resorting to typical tropes.

HACKING GEODEMOGRAPHY: Domestic/Data Occupation - McLain Clutter, Matt Kenyon, Anthony Pins

Taking the form of enclave-occupations of vacant residential fabric in Detroit, the goal of the hack is to manipulate geodemography to make visible new design potentials in the city.

What About the Valley? - Christopher Marcinkoski, Andrew Moddrell, Nicholas Pevzner

WATV? is a prompt to the people of Cleveland, its purpose to make legible the latent civic and ecological potential of the lower Cuyahoga River Valley, and to catalyze increased engagement through the deployment of territorial occupants and modifiers.

OP City: Figuring the Urban Future

OP City brought together collaborative teams of architects and media artists. Each developed and presented for discussion case-study experiments exploring the use of new, popularly accessible analytical and visualization techniques enabling one to see the city anew.

Despite a steady shift in the world’s population into metropolitan regions, efforts to better conceptualize, represent and communicate new interpretations of, and propositions about urban life remain unexamined. Coincident with a rapidly increasing sophistication and number of technologies and media by which to do so, techniques of description today either rely, disappointingly, upon on the overuse of data, or the farmed-out rendering. OP CITY: Figuring the Urban Future brought together collaborative teams of architects and media artists. Each developed and presented for discussion case-study experiments exploring the use of new, popularly accessible analytical and visualization techniques enabling one to see the city anew. OP CITY explored how the urban future may be extrapolated or "produced" by observing the city in new ways that these technologies afford—from mapping and diagrams to graphic narrative, gaming/motion graphics and digitally-manipulated photography.

            
                Project Type:   
                research
design
            

                Participants:   
              Jonathan Crisman
Steven Beckley
Christopher Marcinkoski
Andrew Moddrell
Nicholas Pevzner
Michael Piper
Matthew Allen
Ultan Byrne
McLain Clutter
Matt Kenyon
Anthony Pins
            

                Timeline:   
                2012-13
            

                Themes:   
                postsuburban city
rethinking green
new infrastructure
            

OP City: Figuring the Urban Future

OP City brought together collaborative teams of architects and media artists. Each developed and presented for discussion case-study experiments exploring the use of new, popularly accessible analytical and visualization techniques enabling one to see the city anew.

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