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7. PANORAMA
With its purpose-built housing and recreational spaces, Edge Town offers an alternative
vision of city-limit living. Rather than turning an envious eye towards the city
centre, or pretending to rural isolation, Edge Town inhabitants embrace a complex
mixture of the two. In this heady swirl of dust and data, motion and machinery,
an architecture emerges that interfaces the physical reality of concrete and
metal grids with the electronic realities of data transmissions and overlapping
networks. Standing in an air garden, watching the sun set over a burning car
wreck as the city pops and crackles in the distance, or visiting a sensor park
to admire the data trail of a landing 777, the Edge Town inhabitant has access
to a new and unique landscape, as aesthetically complex and lively as more traditional
habitats.
with thanks to: Bill Gaver (Royal College of Art); Giles Lane and Alice Angus (Proboscis, London); Wendy Kellogg and Tracee Wolf (IBM Research, New York); Nicky Gogan (The Digital Hub, Dublin); Jake Beaver; James King; Asuka Kawabata; Pedro Sepúlveda Sandoval; Tony Dunne and Fiona Raby; Min-sang Cho; Lucy Bullivant; Björn Franke; Andrzej Klimowski.
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