Via L.Bandini, 2 - 96100 Siracusa, Italy
URBAN GANGLIONS
London, UK, 2003-2004
Can excessive programming activate human affection? With the aim of liberating such potential, the project integrates the slower production of knowledge with the faster financial life of the city in a high-rise research centre. In Urban Ganglions order is imposed from top down to activate spontaneous organizations from the bottom up. While providing a fluid infrastructure, it stimulates exchange rather than one-directional transfer, decentralises while gathering and disrupts while ordering. Alike the long and short memory in the cerebral cortex, the first related to learning, the second to intuition, UG establishes permanent channels of information and simultaneously offers flexible and unpredictable connections, triggering novel conditions for exchange. New patterns of exchange are generated by chance out of excessive programming.
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