Topology of a future city

'Temporal bandwidth,' is the width of your present, your now. It is the familiar '[delta-] t' considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are.

[Thomas Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow]

Topology of a future city proposes a speculative working group or workshop divining, describing and thus constructing a future city in ruins; a series of descriptive urban vectors extrapolated from ghosted electromagnetic, signal and literary traces.

Borrowing techniques from geophysical archaeology (revealing and mapping of geophysical properties), narrative displacements (filmic manipulations of temporality, science fiction), and coded psychogeographics (tracing signs of underground networks), Topology sketches a model for the future city flaneur.

Topology will encompass a series of Berlin-wide walks, interventions, discussions, and film/documentary screenings during Transmediale. Logging of specific physical and signal properties will be undertaken at chosen sites, forming the basis of a series of long-term, psychogeophysical studies within Berlin. Constructed maps and collated measurements are to be combined with fictional extrapolations from psychogeographic derive, using technologies of narrative displacement. The working group will be composed of four core researchers and six participants selected from an open call. Research is to be presented by the core artists and researchers during the Transmediale festival in the form of video documentation and a lecture or group discussion exploring this particular fiction.

Topology is situated within the context of an interdisciplinary mobile research laboratory initiated by _____-micro-research in 2010 and devoted to the use of free software and open hardware within the field of psychogeophysics.

Topology is kindly hosted as part of Transmediale10

Please apply here: http://www.transmediale.de/en/node/11051/

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