Description
The design lab is titled "Augmented Cities". Its main focus is on the interesting aspects of future technologies that will change the way we live, work, and socialize in our cities. We will approach this topic by taking an interest in one aspect of technology and foreseeing how it will change the landscape of our future city (for example, will a pneumatic waste collecting system eliminate all the trash bins on the street? What will that mean for our future building design and street view?).
Each project will start with a specific interest and deliver imaginative future city perspective views based on those ideas. All ideas will be proposed and tested on Daegu - a city in South Korea - one of the typical mega cities in Asia with a beautiful history, culture, and its own issues and problems.
The entire design lab is part of a bigger collaborative annual research program called Daegu Global Studio. This is a Korean government-hosted research program, and we are representing SCI-Arc as o