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EYES OF THE CITY

Curatorial statement by Carlo Ratti, Michele Bonino, Sun Yimin

Observing people’s presence in physical space and deciphering their behaviors have always been critical actions to designers, planners and anyone else who has an interest in exploring how cities work. It was 1961 when Jane Jacobs, in her seminal book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, coined a famous expression to convey this idea. According to Jacobs, “the natural proprietors” of a certain part of the metropolis – the people who live, work or spend a substantial amount of time there – become the “eyes on the street.” Their collective, distributed, decentralized gaze becomes the prerequisite to establishing “a marvelous order for maintaining the safety of the streets and the freedom of the city.”

Almost half a century later, we find ourselves at the inception of a new chapter in the relationship between the city and digital technologies, which calls for a reexamination of the old “eyes on the street” idea. In the next few years, thanks to the most recent advances in Artificial Intelligence, deep learning and imaging, we are about to reach an unprecedented scenario, the most radical development in the evolution of the Internet-of-Things: architectural space is acquiring the full ability to “see.” Imagine that any room, street or shop in our city can recognize you, and autonomously respond to your presence. With Jacobs’s “eyes on the street,” it was people who looked at other people or the city and interpreted its mechanisms. In this new scenario, buildings and streets similarly acquire the ability to observe and react as urban life unfolds in front of them. After the “eyes on the street,” we are now entering the era of the “Eyes of the City.” What happens, then, to people and the urban landscape when the sensor-imbued city is able to gaze back?

What we are currently facing is an “utopia or oblivion” crossroads, to say it with the words of one of the most notable thinkers of the past century, Richard Buckminster Fuller. We believe that one of the fundamental duties of architects and designers today is to grapple with this momentous shift, and engage people in the process. “Eyes of the City” aims to experiment with these emerging scenarios to better comprehend them, deconstructing the potential uses of new technologies in order to make them accessible to everyone and inspire people to form an opinion. Using critical design as a tool, the exhibition seeks to create experiences that will encourage people to get involved in defining the ways in which new technologies will shape their cities in years to come. For this reason, it recognizes in Shenzhen’s Futian high-speed railway station its natural home – a place where to reach a broad, diverse audience of intentional visitors and accidental passersby, and a space where, just like in most other liminal transportation hubs, the impact of an “Eyes of the City” scenario is likely going to be felt the most.

城市之眼

Carlo Ratti,Michele Bonino,Sun Yimin 的策展声明

观察物理空间中的人群并解读他们的流动,一直是设计师、规划者和任何对探索城市运作方式兴趣者的关键。1961年,在简·雅各布斯(Jane Jacobs)的重要著作《美国大城市的生死》(The Death and Life of Great American Cities)中,他创造了一个著名的表达来印证这一观点。根据他的说法,大都市某一区域的“自然人”——在那里生活、工作或花费大量时间的人——成为了“街道之眼”。他们集中的、漫衍的和分散的目光成为了建立“一个维护街道安全和城市自由的非凡秩序”的必要前提。大约半个世纪之后,我们发现自己正处于提倡我们重新审视“街道之眼”这一最初想法的关键点。

 

未来几年,得益于人工智能、深度学习和成像技术的最新进展,我们将迎来一个前所未有的局面,物联网发展中最根本的变革:建筑空间正在获取所有“看”的能力。“想象一下,我们城市里的任何房间、街道或商店都能认出你,并自动对你的存在做出反应。雅各布斯的“街道之眼”,是指人们注视别人或城市并解释它的原理。在这个新局面中,建筑和街道同样具有了观察和应对城市生活的能力。继“街道之眼”之后,我们现在正进入“城市之眼”的时代。“那么,当富于感官的城市能够回望,人们和城市景观会发生什么变化?”

 

我们目前正站在一个乌托邦和反乌托邦的交叉路口。我们相信,当今建筑师和设计师的基本职责之一就是应对这一重大转变,让人们参与其中,正如“城市之眼”的目的。本次展览以批判性设计为工具,旨在创造一种体验,鼓励人们参与进来,理解未来几年新技术将如何塑造他们的城市并形成自己的观点。深圳福田高铁站就像是一个天然家园——一个有不同的游客和路人经过的宽敞之处。此外,它也是一个和其他许多最初交通枢纽一样的空间,在那里最能感受“城市之眼”影响。