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Photoshop City


Photoshop City – Photoshop城市

Secretary

The subject can inhabit spaces the body cannot reach. Visualization is a category of architectural work that aims to induce a desire for architecture so potent that buildings are brought into being. The built environment may provide a shelter for bodies in the present, but it is architectural visualization that allows us to inhabit spaces that do not yet exist. In this they are far from neutral.

“Photoshop City” is an installation by the Stockholm-based architecture office Secretary, which uses Adobe Photoshop to explore the capacities and potentials of visualization as a tool and object of design research. The work is made up of two sets of videos—Housework (2017) and Spacework (2019). The production of the latter is performed in public over the course of the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen. Each video documents a photograph of an existing urban setting being manipulated in order to reveal the unbuilt ideals that haunt built form.

The “Housework” series is oriented towards acts of maintenance: these videos show an apartment being tidied and infrastructural surfaces being polished, residential buildings being given more stately proportions, a creek being returned to the wilderness, and a fictional inner-city renewal pushed to a state of hyper-masculine commercialization. In these acts, Secretary aims to make good on the promises of urbanity and sustainability that informed these architectures, exposing the irrational rhythms and subjective preferences that inform acts of visualization.

The “Spacework” series is made in site in Shenzhen, taking the space of Futian High-Speed Railway Station as their point of department. In these videos, Secretary tests a range of visualization techniques with the aim of projecting the corridor of the train station into the distant future (and into deep space). This exercise in speculative fiction experiments with the possibility of projecting beyond the hyper-masculine optics of militarized extraterritorial colonization that have dominated our thinking about the future city in recent centuries.

主体可以栖息在身体无法到达的空间。可视化是建筑行业的一项工作,其目的是激发人们对即将诞生的建筑的渴望。建成环境可以为身体提供一个当前的庇护之所,但建筑可视化让我们栖居于尚不存在的空间。就这方面而言,它们的性质并非中立。

“Photoshop城市”是斯德哥尔摩Secretary建筑事务所的一个装置,它使用Adobe Photoshop来探索可视化作为设计研究的工具和对象的能力及潜力。该作品由两组视频组成,即Housework(2017年)和Spacework(2019年)。Spacework的制作是在深双期间公开进行的。每个视频都记录了一张被操纵的现有城市环境的照片,以揭示困扰建成形式的未完成理想。

“Housework”系列围绕护理行为展开。这些视频展示了正在清理中的公寓、正在抛光处理的基础设施表面、正在扩建的住宅、一条流回荒野的小溪和一个高度商业化的虚构的城市更新计划。通过这些要素,Secretary希望兑现这些建筑指向的城市风格和可持续性,揭示引导可视化行为的非常规节奏和主观偏好。

“Spacework”系列以福田高铁站的空间为切入点,在深圳现场制作。在这些视频中,Secretary测试了一系列可视化技术,目的是将火车站的走廊投射到遥远的未来(和外太空)。这是一种推测性的虚构实验,目的是探索超越军事化治外法权殖民统治这一超男性化视角的可能性。近几个世纪以来,我们关于未来城市的思考一直被这一视角所主导。

CREDITS:

Helen Runting, Rutger Sjögrim, Karin Matz, Hélène Frichot