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Urban Utopia: disruptive Visions of the Digital City between Toronto and Barcelona
August 2019
Utopian visions have been – especially in times of crises – a manifestation of aspirations, a useful tool for the critique of the existing, and a strategic option for progressive political forces. However, after the turn of the millennium, when tech companies started occupying the city as a market, urban utopia became the central means […]
Virtual Reality: Abstracted Urban Space in „Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate“
September 2018
Computer and video games let us immerse into digital virtualities. But is it possible that a digital world created on a computer generates the same spatial experience, the same perception of architecture than the real build environment? This paper approaches the image of the city in the videogame “Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate” step by step and […]