TITLE: Shored, my ruin(ed) city
LOCATION: Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
COLLABORATORS: C100
PROJECT TYPE: Exhibition/curation
Our urban environments are an assemblage of histories and manifestations of ideas. Under the ambitions of progress, the consequence is a destructive and aggressive process of urban renewal that is indiscriminate of what is lost in the pursuit of the future. Cultural assets, are under attack and the imperfect planning leaves ruins of the institutions in our society that are significant to our identities.
From libraries to ballrooms, ruins are the fragments that retain meaning through difficult, changing times. But these are now ever present in a digital field in parallel to the urbanised one, creating a new soft city that is lived through digital space.
Media plays its part in our consumption and understanding of the “soft city’, one that is portrayed through cultural mediums and archived artefacts/documents.
Research from students and academics at the Birmingham School of Architecture and Design explore the fringes between this soft city and the real one, mining content from archives to physical events to reconstruct the destructive process of transformation in the Midlands, typically a post-industrial region with a fast changing environment.
We adapt the digital methods to bricolage our own city using known, unknown and fictional fragments and interpret how their role changes over time. Our compositions speculate on future visions of the city built on these ruined fragments.
5 single channel videos with accompanying audio.
Acetate Prints, Concrete casts, 3D printed ABS
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Developed by C100; an ongoing collaboration with staff and students between Birmingham School of Architecture + Design and the Birmingham School of Art. Presented as part of Campus, Ars Electronica Festival in 2022.
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