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%的人口居住在非正式的城市定居点。因此，超过一半的城市被当局视为“非法”。在印度德里的Savda Ghevda等一些安置区提供的地块面积为3 × 4米。安置区是由政府设立的，目的是将城市内非正式定居点的居民安置到外围的空地上。“3 x 4”是一个旨在以不同的方式看待非正式住区的项目，设想未来每个人都有公民权，非正式性不再被视为一个问题，但正如Zeiderman（2008）指出的那样，这是全球南方城市主义的一个有希望的新模式。该项目探索通过非正式市场和住区建立的品质和价值，旨在确定未来城市的元空间。3 × 4是为了让人们能够批判性地思考他们自己的连接协议，因为现有的平台并不是为他们的需求而设计的。它寻求识别并提供可替代的数字平台——以一种创造所有权和作者身份的方式将人们联系起来的另一种体验。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，以及空间的边界如何随着我们展望未来而变化。新的参与系统会是什么样子？多维空间在心理上、物理上、数字上和生态上会是什么样子？如何通过共同创造和合作来理解这些？3 x 4将使用远程信息处理装置对这些问题进行有趣的感官探索。在混合现实跨国对话中，通过远程呈现视频会议界面，将德里和伦敦的两个3 × 4米的房间合并在一起，将实践观察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讨论提供另一种选择。我们基于实践的方法将使用民族志来记录这些对话和跨国接触。3 × 4将与我们的项目合作伙伴UnBox、Future Cities Catapult和REACT合作，为2014年11月在德里举行的UnBox节做出贡献。通过历史时间，逆转未来城市的发展逻辑，3 x 4将揭示一种基于非正式性的新兴逻辑，为全球南方大城市开发元空间平台设定了愿望。这项研究建立在UnBox实验室2014年研究员在印度艾哈迈达巴德进行的基于实践的研究基础上；该项目使用沉浸式装置来探索在重新安置过程中丢失的自组织社区所建立的品质和价值观。更多信息请参见视觉证据附件和3 × 4纪录片视频：http://vimeo.com/paulsermon/3x4 ReferencesZeiderman， A.（2008）。未来的城市？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.