interfaces

Article: Wishful Thinking

Landscape with crane rooms and keg apartments

What does it mean to live together or in isolation and what extent of isolation renders a common future impossible? Both architecture and technology allow us to create and regulate the interfaces of interaction between each other and our surroundings. In this landscape, Aristide Antonas builds a post-apocalyptic vision where our minimal existence is focused […]
Article: Wishful Thinking
Ethical Autonomous Vehicles by Matthieu Cherubini - Amateur Cities

Ethical Autonomous Vehicles

We tend to assume that humans are able to respond wisely in dynamically changing conditions. That a driver could make a choice whether to kill one person to save five other lives, when he finds himself in an infamous trolley dilemma, but how would a machine make such a moral decision? Driverless vehicles might prioritize […]
Article: Critical Imagination
Feature Image: Jon Rawlinson, Coffee Bay, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

Bringing the Jungle to the City

Brett Scott writes about the city — its dynamics full of ambiguity and interfaces that connect and disconnect us from the larger context and from each other. I once lived in Coffee Bay, a 260 person village on the rural Wild Coast of South Africa. It had a horizon so vast you could almost glimpse the curvature of the […]
Article: Wishful Thinking
Norby - Glitch - houses throwing up trees

Houses throwing up trees

What if virtual glitches could happen in reality? Sometimes digital image stitching does not get the reality quite right. These images are both funny and amusing but all of us know they are just a result of a silly mistake. Even though it is hard to imagine, it is not altogether impossible to think that at some point […]