What a mess aims to explore the untapped narrative potential of the urban fabric, and its place in the digital representation of cities.
It brings together the outcomes of a series of walkshops during which participants were invited to 3D scan elements of the public space. Each set of captures (or specimens) were then contracted into aggregates, semi-living phygital entities, documented in the web archive and in the installation.
Through close inspection of each aggregate, the 3D surfaces are revealed that constitute them both as they were captured and as they were integrated into new narrative environments.
What a Mess is a project developed at V2_Lab for the Unstable Media as part of the Realities In Transition residencies, 2023.
Hugo Pilate is a Franco-american designer specialized in the creation of collaborative experiences with a fascination for the past, present, and future of city-making.
Pedro Gil Farias is a Portuguese multidisciplinary researcher, artist and designer currently based in Rotterdam. His work focuses in using both analogue and digital media to explore practices of commoning, creative appropriation and participation in cities and the public space.
What a mess aims to explore the untapped narrative potential of the urban fabric, and its place in the digital representation of cities.
It brings together the outcomes of a series of walkshops during which participants were invited to 3D scan elements of the public space. Each set of captures (or specimens) were then contracted into aggregates, semi-living phygital entities, documented in the web archive and in the installation.
Through close inspection of each aggregate, the 3D surfaces are revealed that constitute them both as they were captured and as they were integrated into new narrative environments.
What a Mess is a project developed at V2_Lab for the Unstable Media as part of the Realities In Transition residencies, 2023.
Hugo Pilate is a Franco-american designer specialized in the creation of collaborative experiences with a fascination for the past, present, and future of city-making.
Pedro Gil Farias is a Portuguese multidisciplinary researcher, artist and designer currently based in Rotterdam. His work focuses in using both analogue and digital media to explore practices of commoning, creative appropriation and participation in cities and the public space.
