digitalSTRUCTURES: Data and Urban Strategies of the Civic Future

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digitalSTRUCTURES: Data and Urban Strategies of the Civic Future engages with digital property and data infrastructures, and explores new modes and impacts of data collection affecting architecture and urban infrastructure.

Digital currencies (cryptocurrencies) and digital property require large amounts of land, resources, and data centers and infrastructures to store these supplies. There is a larger architectural and urban infrastructural challenge and urgency on how these various kinds of digital exchanges are mediated, to limit the detrimental use of our everyday resources.

Using a mixed-media approach, this book couples a novel exploration of XR (mixed-reality) and AR (augmented reality) into several parts of the book. To prolong the shelf-life of emergent data and case-studies on the topic, the book is complemented with an open-access digital platform for readers to access video interviews with the industry experts, diagrammatic mapping and graphical cartography, and 3D artifacts that shows how data interacts with phygital properties.

Authored by Wendy W Fok, who has been researching and writing on the topic for over a decade, this book includes a foreword by Jesse Reiser and Julian Harake; interviews with and contributions by Greg Lynn, Saskia Sassen, Minerva Tantoco, Lydia Kallipoliti, Michael Young and Kutan Ayata, Andrew Witt, Amber Bartosh, Mik Nayeem, with an ongoing list of interactive interviews.

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Wendy W Fok is non-binary, trained architect, educator, and BIPOC designer, interested in the issues of digital property and data infrastructures. On their spare time, Fok interests include modifying motorcycles, obsessing over the built environment, prototyping design applications for the future of urban living, and designing in digital and analogue. Fok has a Doctor of Design from Harvard University, a Master of Architecture and Certification of Urban Policy/Planning from Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with a Concentration in Economics (Statistics) from Barnard College, Columbia University.

All Credited Contributors: Guest Contributors (Written/Interviews) Jesse Reiser, Saskia Sassen, Minerva Tantoco, Andrew Witt, Mik Naayem, Lydia Kallipoliti, Jimenez Lai Graphics Layout & Research Design Team: Rachel Pendleton, Yarzar Hlaing, Isabelle Iza Dabrowski, Tara Akdora, JJ Jin, Jessica Marquez Cover Design: Hyun Jung Ahn Language & Copy Editor: Irina T. Oryshkevich.