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VIRTUAL CITIES
"Imagine a machinic mind with unlimited cognitive power. With near-infinite memory and processing ability. With access to, and understanding of, all the information about anything that has ever happened, is happening and might ever happen. A near-limitless capacity to extract and form meaning from the trillions upon trillions of events and beings and interactions in the known world."
——Nora Khan, "Towards a Poetics Of Artificial Superintelligence"
Note: This page will consist of two types of virtual cities: 1) a series of cutting-edge architectural drawings using the AI-generating program Midjourney (i.e. these are cities that artificial intelligence itself has designed with guiding prompts from high-level architects);
2) speculations on the ongoing project of the Metaverse (an infinitely-evolving and expansive virtual simulation)
Architect: Matias del Campo
Affiliation: University of Michigan; SPAN
Website: http://www.span-arch.org/
Images: Magic Spells and Domestic Spaces and Midjourney Series
Architect: Kory Bieg
Affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture; OTA+
Website: www.otaplus.com
Images: Yellow Series, AI Generated; Interiors, AI Generated;
Architect: Nasim Sehat
Affiliation: IAAC > Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Website: nasimsehat.com
Images: Memories of the Future Series (A Study on Persian Carpet Architecture)
Architect: Niccolo Casas
Affiliation: Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Website: niccolocasas.com
Images: Upside Down, AI Credo, Hanging Gardens Series
Architect: Milad Showkatbakhsh
Affiliation: Studio Master, EMTECH STUDIO (AA School of Architecture)
Website: mi-sh.com
Images: Persian Mosque/Cyberpunk City Series
Architect: Daniel Bolojan
Affiliation: Senior Architect - Computational Design Specialist at Wolf D. Prix / Coop Himmelb(l)au
Website: nonstandardstudio.com
Images: Stable Diffusion Model, and Encoding Design Midjourney Series
Part 2. Metaverse
SIMULATED CITY
(METAVERSE)
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Location:
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Online
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Intended Population:
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Universal (Infinite)
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Estimated Year of Completion:
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2024 Prototypes
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Architect/Designer:
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Multiple Designers
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Interesting Facts/Unique Characteristics:
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10 billion dollars of venture capital was invested in metaverse research in 2021
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It will improve virtual and augmented reality by including sensory manipulation (body suits)
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Already billboards, cryptocurrencies, and virtual real estate are being transacted in anticipation of the metaverse's launch
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Mission:
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To endlessly expand, metamorphose, and integrate human experience into a simulated universe.
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