METACITY/DATATOWN is based on the video installation of the same title produced for the Stroom Center for the Visual Arts. METACITY Due to ever-expanding communications networks and the immeasurable web of interrelationships they generate, the world has shed the anachro- nism global village and is transformingi nto the more advanced state of the Metacity. The worlds available territories for the metacity: 4. Using numbers or data to describe the vast- ness of the Metacity. Selecting data according to hypothetical prescriptions, diagrams work asemblems for operations, agendas, tasks. DATATOWN based only upon data, it is a city that wants to be described by information. Skanvord taschen yazik raspechatatj pdf. THere is no given topography, no prescribed ideology, no rep-resentation, no context.

Using Extremizing Scenarios,data lead to frontiers, edges, and therefore inventions. Datatown is constructed on a series of what- ifs that embody different assumptions, so itis always in progress. If the world settlement envelope has been filled up with 376 datatowns,the world capacity will be 18 times thecurrent population.

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In this special issue, famed Dutch architects Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries, collectively known as MVRDV, take centre stage. Based in Rotterdam, the office has had its fingers on the pulse of global solutions to contemporary issues in architecture and urbanism for two decades and counting. Featuring detailed profiles of more than 20 top projects, including Copenhagen’s Gemini Residences, Busan Cinema Complex, Gangnam Shopping Centre, the new Market Hall in Rotterdam and Parkrand Apartments in Amsterdam, plus an essay by Aaron Betsky and a conversation with MVRDV and Charles Bessard and Nanne de Ru of Powerhouse Company. 256 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 34 cm, pb, Spanish/English.