Fireside Chats with Empathic Futures Lab
Arts:Design
This episode was inspired by Kevin Kelly's MirrorWorld article for Wired. Here is the link: https://www.wired.com/story/mirrorworld-ar-next-big-tech-platform/
Our conversation starts with summing up the article and describing what a Mirror World actually is as an augmented reality future. While doing this, we dig into particular sections of Kelly's writing starting with his ideas of "super vision" - the ability AR might gives us to see the digital insides of every object.
We then discuss what "authenticity" means in a world such as this where we can augment reality - past, present, future melding into one - on top of what "actually" exists. How does this change how we understand "place"? What is "place" in a world where we have a much larger control over how we experience space? Does placemaking no longer necessitate building new buildings and should we then discuss new business models for create places?
What does it look like to design something for the mirror world? Or is it purely a visual overlay? Why pay for architecture if all of the cool stuff is just an overlay?
Then we get to this point in the discussion where we ask if the future of architecture is quite literally "green".
Mirror World article with the mountains and school children that we discuss. http://blog.leapmotion.com/mirrorworlds/
For those of you looking for the Architectural Intelligence book that was referenced a couple times, it is here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/architectural-intelligen ce
Instagram photobooth article: https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/1/23/18193574/instagram-photo-wall-personal-home
Episode 34: Value Engineering w/ Alex Bahr
Episode 33: Dumb AI
Episode 32: Deep Dive on Heritage
Episode 31: The Many faces of Interfaces
Episode 30: [AR]chitecture
Episode 28: Disconnecting - find your premium
Episode 27: What AirBnB's Backyard project might mean and other tangential topics
Episode 26: Digital Environments - Picnics or otherwise
Episode 25: Edges, Interfaces, the Formalization of the Digital
Episode 24: Big Bias, Big Data, Blockchain and other Topics
Episode 23: Why Media is so Broken (and other clickbaity titles)
Episode 22: Season 2 Kick-off Event
Episode 20: Trust Us, Reputation is the Future!
Episode 19: Why do we detail?
Episode 18: A Design Language
Episode 17: Re-Installing Architecture
Episode 16: What does Experience Mean?
Episode 15: Authenticity in Fiction
Episode 14: Future Business
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