Synthetic Design Method as a Tool for Design in the Second Machine Age / Matthias Hank Haeusler for the Shenzhen Biennale (UABB) 2019

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What happens when the sensor-imbued city acquires the ability to see – almost as if it had eyes? Ahead of the 2019 Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), titled "Urban Interactions," ArchDaily is working with the curators of the "Eyes of the City" section at the Biennial to stimulate a discussion on how new technologies – and Artificial Intelligence in particular – might impact architecture and urban life. Here you can read the “Eyes of the City” curatorial statement by Carlo Ratti, the Politecnico di Torino and SCUT.

Based on research conducted as part of the Computational Design (CoDe) degree at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, we argue that large-scale rapid urban developments in combination with vast amounts of data are beyond human comprehension and consequently need to be synthesized when designed.

In the synthetic design method I’ve outlined below, I aim to sketch out a hypothesis that could potentially influence what design might be and how it might be produced in the second machine age.

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Cite: Matthias Hank Haeusler. "Synthetic Design Method as a Tool for Design in the Second Machine Age / Matthias Hank Haeusler for the Shenzhen Biennale (UABB) 2019" 09 Aug 2019. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/922359/synthetic-design-method-as-a-tool-for-design-in-the-second-machine-age-matthias-hank-haeusler-for-the-shenzhen-biennale-uabb-2019> ISSN 0719-8884

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