An Adaptive Architecture for Refugee Urbanism: Sensing, Play, and Immigration Policy (2013)
article⁄An Adaptive Architecture for Refugee Urbanism: Sensing, Play, and Immigration Policy (2013)
abstract⁄Now more than ever, architecture’s entanglement with humancomputer interaction HCI is conditioned by a host of global forces telecommunications networks and their infrastructures in satellites and subsea fiberoptic cables, but also international legal and financial mechanisms, climate events and other forces that amalgamate rapidly and recast the ways that the built environment responds. These affect the architecture and HCI of air travel, of agriculture, of highspeed trading and more. Further, they place the formation and experience of architecture in between scales between the handheld device and the satellite. An adaptive architecture in this context is one that deploys familiar HCI protocols and technologies but reasserts the subjective figure and its space. The project currently in progress, BeauFleuve, is an attempt at such an adaptive architecture.Addressing the novel phenomenon that is ‘refugee urbanism’, this mobile play structure hosts immigrant and refugee youth, revisits some of the tracking that attended their global migration and mines wireless transcriptions of their recorded input. Data from those recordings subsequently build an online map to which participants can return and discover some of the invisible legal mechanisms that enabled their movements. The structure’s responsiveness is therefore conditioned socially and physically, but also legally.
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2013 |
| Authors |
Geiger, Jordan. |
| Issue |
ACADIA 13: Adaptive Architecture |
| Pages |
179-182 |
| Library link |
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| Entry filename |
adaptive-architecture-refugee-urbanism |
