3 x 4: Exploring metaspace platforms for inclusive future cities

在德里和孟买等特大城市，以及世界上发展最快的城市之一艾哈迈达巴德，超过50%的人口生活在非正式的城市住区。因此，超过一半的城市被当局认定为“非法”。3x4米是印度德里的Savda Ghevda等一些重新安置殖民地提供的地块大小。重新安置殖民地是由政府建立的，目的是将人们从城市内部的非正式住区重新安置到外围的空地上。3x4是一个寻求以不同的方式看待非正式住区的项目，设想一个人人都有公民权利的未来，非正式不被视为问题，但正如Zeiderman(2008)指出的那样，为全球南部建立了一个很有前途的城市新模式。该项目探索通过非正式市场和住区建立的质量和价值，试图确定未来的城市元空间。3x4使人们能够批判性地考虑他们自己的连接协议，因为现有的平台不是为他们的需求而设计的。它寻求识别并提供另一种数字平台--以创造所有权和作者身份的方式将人们联系在一起的另一种体验。利用这些维度作为连接的接口，该项目旨在探索数字空间的新混合体，以及随着我们展望未来，空间的边界是如何变化的。新的交战系统可能是什么样子的？多维空间在心理上、物理上、数字上和生态上将是什么样子？如何通过共同创作和合作来理解这些问题？3x4将使用远程信息处理装置来提供对这些问题的有趣、感官的探索。在混合现实的跨国对话中，通过远程呈现的视频会议界面，将德里和伦敦的两个3x4米的房间合并，将实践看待和参与城市空间的新方式，为当前关于第三世界特大城市的论述提供一种替代方案。我们以实践为基础的方法将使用民族志来记录这些对话和跨国接触。与我们的项目合作伙伴一起，未来城市弹射器和反应，3x4将在2014年11月在德里的Unbox音乐节上做出贡献。通过历史时间颠倒未来城市发展的逻辑，3x4将揭示一个基于非正规性的新兴逻辑，它设定了在全球南方特大城市开发元空间平台的愿望。这项研究建立在印度艾哈迈达巴德2014年开箱实验室研究员进行的基于实践的研究基础上；该项目使用身临其境的安装来探索通过自组织社区建立的品质和价值，这些品质和价值在重新安置过程中丢失。更多信息见视觉证据附件和3x4纪录片：http://vimeo.com/paulsermon/3x4 ReferencesZeiderman，A.(2008年)。未来的城市？超大城市与城市现代性的空间/时间。关键规划，夏季，23-29。

In megacities such as Delhi and Mumbai - and within one of the fastest growing cities within the world, Ahmedabad - more than 50% of the population live in informal urban settlements. More than half the city is therefore considered 'illegal' by the authorities. 3 x 4 metres is the plot size provided in some resettlement colonies such as Savda Ghevda in Delhi, India. Resettlement colonies are set-up by the government to relocate people from informal settlements within the city to vacant land on the periphery. 3 x 4 is a project that seeks to look at informal settlements differently by envisaging a future where everyone has the right to citizenship and informality is not viewed as a problem, but as Zeiderman (2008) notes a promising new model of urbanism for the global south.Exploring the qualities and values built through informal markets and settlements, this project seeks to identify a future cities metaspace. 3 x 4 is about enabling people to critically think about their own protocols for connection, as existing platforms are not designed for their needs. It seeks to identify and provide alternative digital platforms - another experience that connects people in a way that creates ownership and authorship. Using these dimensions as an interface to connect, the project aims to explore new hybrids of digital space and how the boundaries of space are shifting as we look toward the future. What might new systems of engagement look like? What will multi-dimensional spaces look like psychologically, physically, digitally and ecologically? How can these be understood through co-creation and collaboration?3 x 4 will use a telematic installation to provide a playful, sensorial exploration of these issues. Merging two 3 x 4 metre rooms in Delhi and London through a telepresent videoconference interface in a mixed-reality transnational dialogue will practice new ways of seeing and engaging in urban spaces, offering an alternative to current discourse on Third World megacities. Our practice-based approach will use ethnography to document these dialogues and transnational encounters. Working with our project partners UnBox, Future Cities Catapult and REACT, 3 x 4 will contribute to the UnBox Festival in Delhi during November 2014. Inverting the Future Cities logic of progress through historical time, 3 x 4 will reveal an emerging logic based on informality that sets an aspiration for developing metaspace platforms in megacities of the global south.This research builds upon practice-based research conducted as UnBox LABS 2014 Fellows in Ahmedabad, India; a project that used immersive installation to explore the qualities and values built through self-organised communities that are lost in the resettlement process. See visual evidence attachment and 3 x 4 documentary video for more information: http://vimeo.com/paulsermon/3x4 ReferencesZeiderman, A. (2008). Cities of the future? Megacities and the space/time of urban modernity. Critical Planning, Summer, 23-29.