Imminent Commons: The Expanded City

Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017

Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Jeffrey Anderson Anderson, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Jeffrey Anderson

• Publisher: Actar
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781945150647
• eBook ISBN: 9781638409038
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Urban Planning & Landscaping

In light of the increasing disengagement between urban and rural areas, this book address the interdependency of cities with ecological and technological processes outside the purview of traditional urban planning. It compiles a huge amount of essays in regards to the most important topics that cities must address today, such as their connection with global data networks, ecological cycles of resources which supersede the traditional boundaries of urbanism. For this reason, it frames investigation of contemporary urbanism on nine imminent commons grouping the urban commons into resources and technologies lead us to the arcane classification of natural resources: air, water, fire, and earth, the four elements of ancient cosmologies; and five basic technological commons based on expanded human capacities: sensing, communicating, moving, making, and recycling.

Table of contents

• Imminent Commons: The Expanded City
• The Building Where We Keep the World
• The Aerocene - Sensing Air
• SEOUL ON-AIR. Augmented Environments for Urban Activism
• Yellow Dust
• Floating Lives, Eastern Clouds, a Seaweed Archipelago
• The Seoul Biome
• Invasive Regeneration
• Towards the End of Air Conditioning
• Energy is Everywhere and Nowhere
• Do We Dream Under the Same Sky?
• Thermodynamic Urbanism
• Thermal Mass
• Beyond Mining- Urban Growth The architectural innovation of cultivated resources through appropriate engineering
• Seoul Agro-City in 2050: Proposal on Food Security in Seoul
• Liveware: The Plug-In Ecology- Urban Farm Pod
• The Flexing Room: Embodied Computation, Autonomy and Architectural Robotics
• OK, Computer: Opening the Black Box of Machine Learning, Algorithms, and Bias
• Sensing Syntax
• Chronosphere: Experiments for the (IPv6) Sensor City
• SMELL = INFORMATION. What Could Happen when Invisible Information -from Smell Molecules- is the Starting Point for Acting and Reacting
• AN ATLAS OF MACHINE LANDSCAPES. A tour through the post human architectures of machine vision
• TRANSURBAN LOVE. The architecturalization of romance
• Gig Faces, Gig Spaces
• The City of Social Media
• An Architect's Contract for Outcomes
• Seoul: Genealogy of a Logistical Ecosystem
• Between Friction and Fulfillment
• Moving Parts: how the design of vehicles shapes cities
• The Dabbawala- Informality Leveraging Formality
• Driver Less Vision, Learning to See the Way Cars Do
• Cyclopean Cannibalism or, Taming Rubble with Robots
• Strange Weather
• Adaptive Assembly: Collaborative Robotic Reuse in Constrtuction
• The Ideology of Sharing Culture Open-Source Architecture as a Design Factor and Research Tool
• Trash Peaks
• Three Ordinary Funerals
• Reclaimed Resources: Transforming Urban Waste into Architecture through Human Capabilities
• A Back-to-the-City Movement: Some Proofs and Potentials of New Eco-Villages in American Cities
• States of Disassembly: Electronics, Toxicity, and Territory