Matrix City 2

Here is the Final hand in for the Future City Project. The text is quite small on the image, so here is the blurb:

'The tourist gaze' is a fabricated view of the city. This view is a compilation of nostalgia, day dreaming, media manipulation and naivety. "For the twentieth-century tourist, the world has become one large department store of countryside and cities" (Schivelbusch, 1986:197). The city becomes a scripted event that caters for the tourist. In a sense, by the tourist being in the city, the city that the tourist came to gaze upon no longer exists. The 'post-tourist' realises that the entire presentation of the city is pastiche and accepts that it is all a game that s/he is part of. Interpretation of the city now is comprised of a physical manipulated reality, biased and distorted baggage, and the fabricated tourist driven script. Essentially, the city only exists as a physical stage for the tourist's "right to disregard native concerns and feelings, [and] the right to spin their own web of meaning" (Bauman, 1993:241) to make the Matrix City.

The Matrix City is booleaned by a contour that runs through the landscape representing that the tourist gaze is contextual. It is then twisted as a distortion of the fabrication created by the tourist. The city begins to melt into the alleged fabrication to become a new city _ The Matrix City.

Bauman, Z. (1993) Postmodern Ethics. London : Routledge

Schivelbusch, W. (1986)The Railway Journey. Trains and Travel in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Blackwell

Urry, J. (2002) The Tourist Gaze. London: Sage

Matrix City

So this is the poster for our conceptualised city.. Matrix City...

Some More Playing

Here are some more renders from our 'cities of science and fiction' project... It is starting to evolve into something quite fun. Send Comments....

Just Playing...

We have a digital design apps project to conceptualize a future for Johannesburg... I have take it to the ridiculous and applied ideas relating from the 'matrix' _ that we are somewhere else and the city is a figment of out imagination... This city is simply a metaphysical layering in extruded Johannesburg's contours extruded and morphed as the implied city adapts...

Coelacanth found @ Wits

For those of you who are interested, there is a Coelacanth on display @ Wits Uni for those of you who are interested.

Site for Thesis - 80 Albert Street

This is my site for my thesis. This building was the pass book or dompas head office during apartheid - a building that was the cause of much trauma and discrimination during apartheid. Today, the building houses abused women and will make for a fascinating site for my thesis.