(Introductory presentation for the graduate course Interventions in Urban Networks: Cybrid and Expanded Spaces in Art and the Contemporary City – AUH5862, FAUUSP.)
Core questions of the course:
- The interconnection of online and offline networks and its political, aesthetic, and sociocultural dimensions;
- Expanded cities and spaces of emergence and emergency
- The transition from the Interactive City to the Participatory City
- Interaction with data in public space
- Mediated participation
- The precariat and contestation
- Relationships between architecture and data-rich environments
- How can we operate within, challenge, and problematize the intersection of data and public space?
- Internet of (Which) Things?