Abstract

This presentation explores the impact of globalisation on emerging urbanities, and the relationship between the mediated and the physical city, and shows selected samples from the work carried out over the past years within A + URL, the Architecture + Urban Research Laboratory, and other collaborative projects, i.e. prototypes, installations, performances, etc. The projects intend to explore to what extent we can construct new environments, cities of intensity rather then cities of density.

• Ana Betancour: A + URL Architecture + Urban Research Laboratory, KTH (Royal Institute of  Technology) Stockholm: a postgraduate programme in Media and Architecture/Urban Design. Focussing on the relationship between the mediated and the physical city, emergent metabolic systems, synthetic environments, adapted and appropriated technologies, A + URL carries out research, projects and events in a laboratory of prototyping, testing, direct actions and new modes of communication. Other groups and collaborations: Syndikat: art/architecture/media network based in Barcelona, Stockholm, and London. The projects explore tactical media through a multidisciplinary practice.

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