Metacity / Datatown MVRDV 5 images
1999
12
12
How can we understand the city in times of globalisation and explosion of scale?
Do we lose control in these quantities or can we file its components and manipulate them?
Can we investigate its problems and manipulate them? Let us imagine a city that is only based upon data.
A city, that wants to be described only by information.
A city, that doesn't know any topography...
no prescribed ideology...
no representation...
no context...
purely huge...
only data:
Metacity / Datatown.
First shown December 12, 1998 at Stroom The Hague. The installation travelled all over the world, Berlin, Glasgow, Johannesburg and many more places.
Do we lose control in these quantities or can we file its components and manipulate them?
Can we investigate its problems and manipulate them? Let us imagine a city that is only based upon data.
A city, that wants to be described only by information.
A city, that doesn't know any topography...
no prescribed ideology...
no representation...
no context...
purely huge...
only data:
Metacity / Datatown.
First shown December 12, 1998 at Stroom The Hague. The installation travelled all over the world, Berlin, Glasgow, Johannesburg and many more places.
1/5 MCDT installation
2/5 MCDT installation
3/5 Intro and Water sector
4/5 Sector Agriculture
5/5 Metacity/ Datatown Book
Can we understand the contemporary city at a moment when globalization has exploded its scale beyond our grasp? Have we lost control of its quantities or can we analyse its components and manipulate them? Imagine a city that is described only by data. A city that wants to be explored only as information. A city that knows no given topography, no prescribed ideology, no representation, no context. Only huge, pure data: Metacity/Datatown. What are the implications of this city? To what conclusions can it lead? What agenda for architecture and urbanism could this numerical approach provoke? This book wants to examine that agenda.
Can we understand the contemporary city at a moment when globalization has exploded its scale beyond our grasp? Have we lost control of its quantities or can we analyse its components and manipulate them? Imagine a city that is described only by data. A city that wants to be explored only as information. A city that knows no given topography, no prescribed ideology, no representation, no context. Only huge, pure data: Metacity/Datatown. What are the implications of this city? To what conclusions can it lead? What agenda for architecture and urbanism could this numerical approach provoke? This book wants to examine that agenda.
Client: Stoom The Hague
Research / Design: MVRDV
Installation / Animation / Images: Wieland Gouwens
Research / Design: MVRDV
Installation / Animation / Images: Wieland Gouwens