"The Real Modernity that Is Here": Understanding the Role of Digital Visualisations in the Production of a New Urban Imaginary at Msheireb Downtown, Doha
"The Real Modernity that Is Here": Understanding the Role of Digital Visualisations in the Production of a New Urban Imaginary at Msheireb Downtown, Doha
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“真正的现代性就在这里”：了解数字可视化在多哈 Msheireb 市中心产生新城市想象中的作用
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10.1111/ciso.12080
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2016
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0.7
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MELHUISH C
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本文探讨了计算机生成图像（cgi）如何在卡塔尔多哈的一个大型城市发展项目中实现新城市想象的可视化和谈判。cgi不仅是市场营销的核心，也是Msheireb Downtown设计的核心。我们在跨国建筑和施工团队中对它们的生产和流通进行了研究，揭示了它们的数字特征如何在不断变化的全球秩序中对城市进行重新成像和重新定位的背景下，允许协商、混合城市想象的发展。我们认为cgi通过三种方式实现了后殖民城市美学的共同生产，扰乱了海湾地区历史东方主义者的目光。首先，它们在全球行动者网络中流通，这些行动者就来自不同背景的各种形式的知识进行谈判；其次，它们是由相互参照的文化来源和可视化混合身份的指标混合组成的；第三，它们唤起了一种特殊的城市氛围，这种氛围既具有地域和文化特征，又具有世界性。该研究强调了在全球市场主导的增长背景下，对产生新城市空间的技术和美学生产过程进行研究的重要性；并且，通过考虑地理地理在不同地点之间的循环，有助于“更恰当的后殖民研究”的发展（Robinson, 17）。[城市发展;数字可视化;多哈，后殖民研究]
This paper explores how Computer Generated Images (CGIs) have enabled the visualisation and negotiation of a new urban imaginary in the production of a large‐scale urban development project in Doha, Qatar. CGIs were central not only to the marketing but also the design of Msheireb Downtown. Our study of their production and circulation across a transnational architectural and construction team reveals how their digital characteristics allowed for the development of a negotiated, hybridised urban imaginary, within the context of a re‐imaging and re‐positioning of cities in a shifting global order. We suggest that CGIs enabled the co‐production of a postcolonial urban aesthetic, disrupting the historical Orientalist gaze on the Gulf region, in three ways. Firstly, they circulate through a global network of actors negotiating diverse forms of knowledge from different contexts; secondly, they are composed from a mix of inter‐referenced cultural sources and indicators visualising hybrid identities; and thirdly, they evoke a particular urban atmosphere which is both place‐ and culture‐specific, and cosmopolitan. The study emphasises the importance of research into the technical and aesthetic production processes which generate new urban spaces in the context of global market‐led growth; and, by considering the circulation of CGIs between sites, contributes to the development of “a more properly postcolonial studies” (Robinson , 17). [Urban Development; Digital Visualisation; Doha, Postcolonial Studies]