The Inclusive Pecuniary Urban Ideology
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‘村后有山，山上多石，石白且巨, 故名曰白石洲。’ ‘There were mountains behind the village, and there were rocks on the mountains, and the rocks were white, and huge.’
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白 Bai
石 Shi
洲 Zhou
White
Rock
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‘With the roar of forklifts, the demolition truck smashed the wall, the reinforced concrete was dismembered, and a wide flat ground had been cut out, making the densely packed handshake building in the distance more abrupt. No one knows how many people are left in this urban village that once gathered 150,000 undocumented population...’ Shenzhen Southern News, 2021
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I find myself surrounded by patchiness, that is, a mosaic of open-ended assemblages of entangled ways of life, with each further opening into a mosaic of temporal rhythms and spatial arcs. Anna Tsing, 2015
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A family’s livng depends on this 10 sqm noodle bar, which is also their sitting-room as well, Baishizhou, Shenzhen (source: Gaigaizi, 2016: https://freewechat.com/a/MzA5NTMzODAzMQ==/2669398036/1)
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Baishizhou: The last moment of demolition
In the end of 2020, inhabitants in the Baishizhou urban villag Peng, the research Architect, arrived at this area and explore identities. He realised that this social issue is with complexity Link: https://youtu.be/JfVJeIBUSYI
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ge received the notice of the coming demolition. Persona Mr ed the specific consideration of each characters from diverse and paradox, needed to be resolved in a way.
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Style
Game development (Michael Salmond, 2016)
Persona for interaction
Refrakt
Forensic Architecture
Game: Shenmue
Video 5: The Twelve Persona
Software technique Video 2: Constructing Immersive Experience
‘Field of Play’
Video 5: Immersive Spatial Experience of Baishizhou Urban Village
Interactiveness from first person view Video 3: Augumenting Happiness through Smart Phone
Prototype
Representation method
Video 1: ‘Chinese Virus’ is Racism
Video 4: Voice from Shenzhen’s Migrants
Studio 1
Studio 1 submission
Sep 2020
Dec 2020
Video 1: https://youtu.be/XX2GM7uN0WQ Video 2: https://youtu.be/ycwmqxZ5OR0 Video 3: https://youtu.be/8_NtpG9kyjU Video 4: https://youtu.be/Ys0NDFFvV8U Video 5: https://youtu.be/GPWExCtJ-0A Video 6: https://youtu.be/pf1f1qkgZZ0
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Background story
Studio 1 road map
Jan 2020
Reviewing Studio 1 An exploration toward the Interactive Walk-through
Interactivity for audience inspired by Refrakt (source: studio 1)
By studying Forensic Architecture, Refrakt artist and Ludology(Michael Salmand, 2016) in studio1, I have explored a representation methodology with a preliminary research question of:’How to demonstrate the issue of marginalised migrants to the audience who has no cognitive background to it?’
Methodological reconstruction of space (source: studio 1)
Each video I generated in studio 1 contribute to my representation prototype, technically, conceptually and narratively. This laid a solidly fundamental and methodological representation method for this ongoing thesis project.
Tentative generation of AR experience (source: studio 1)
To highlight, I learnt the importance of interactivity for information transmission by studying Refrakt’s interactive installation with AR technology. And I learned from Forensic Architecture about their remote spatial reconstruction methodology, integrating studies on Michael Salmond’s book about video game development(world building, character design and game mechanism).
Theoretical definition of ‘field of play’ (source: studio 1)
Although my final output is not a game, I use the game production methodology to optimise my final interactive walkthrough for the efficiency of information delivery and user experience. Serious Game is an efficient way to build knowledge for audience uncounciously (source: studio 1)
Mapping and texturalising the ‘field’ (source: studio 1)
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The urban and the urban village
This video shows the xontrast between the typical urban are embedded with totally different lifes and entanglement of liv Zhang after pademic in the Chinese situation.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmbE336UCs&fea
nd the Urban Village
ea and the urban village, Baishizhou. Two types of urban land vings. The source videos were filmed by my mother, Yuanrong
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