FCJ-141 Spaces for Play - Architectures of Wisdom: Towards a Utopic Spatial Practice.
The paper speculatively proposes a critical artistic practice that takes utopia to be a dynamic and specifically spatial device for achieving social transformation, and allies this with the ability of locative media to create virtual ‘second worlds’ in real-world spaces. It sketches a ‘Utopic Spati...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Humanities Press
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Fibreculture Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/19/fcj-141-spaces-for-play-architectures-of-wisdom-towards-a-utopic-spatial-practice/ |
| Summary: | The paper speculatively proposes a critical artistic practice that takes utopia to be a dynamic and specifically spatial device for achieving social transformation, and allies this with the ability of locative media to create virtual ‘second worlds’ in real-world spaces. It sketches a ‘Utopic Spatial Practice’ that would, through the superimposition of speculative other-worlds, deliberately create distance and incongruity between the ‘virtual’ and the ‘real’ in order to instigate a potential-generating dialectic. The paper explores parallels between Louis Marin’s utopics and Pierre Levy’s account of virtualization, as well as ideas about ‘nomadic’ space, and architectonic models for such a practice. |
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| ISSN: | 1449-1443 |