{"id":1622,"date":"2004-01-07T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2004-01-07T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/stealth\/updates\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2017-04-20T18:48:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T16:48:30","slug":"processmatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/?p=1622","title":{"rendered":"ProcessMatter"},"content":{"rendered":"

ProcessMatter<\/em> aims at translating urban processes into a digital environment, to study the dynamics that occur between hierarchical and distributed urban systems. The project finds its base in the Wild City research that looks at the mechanisms and effects of the uncontrolled transformation of the city of Belgrade. The outcome is an agent-based simulation software that brings one of the central Wild City practices \u2013 street economy \u2013 to the digital ground to get a hunch of its evolution and the impact it generates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Simulation of emergence of street trade (actors, structures, solids)<\/p><\/div>\n

The core of this research is an interest in the spatial and organisational implications of different degrees of control in urban development, degrees of hierarchy and heterarchy in urban systems, and the effect of certain blends of regulated and non-regulated urban activities. How does an urban environment respond (configure and perform) when the dynamics between such poles are varied or even unleashed<\/p>\n

Understanding cities as complex adaptive systems, questions whether architecture (and urbanism) can be open towards \u2018unprompted\u2019 innovations; whether it can be flexible in interaction with its environment, and shift from the top-down, unilateral and project-based response towards an open-ended approach? In our view an apparent direction for architects and planners is in influencing, steering and shifting the processes themselves – which means a change of focus from designing objects to designing processes.<\/p>\n

The ProcessMatter<\/em> simulation application is envisioned as a descriptive and investigative device of urban processes. Here, the practical interest in physical form or growth patterns is secondary to interest in the character and behaviour of the urban process itself. At present, the focus is not put on a quantitative quality of the output but rather on the qualitative landscape of the model variables and parameters.<\/p>\n