An Interactive Urban Experience integrating Algorithmic Errors as a Creative Input.

Machine nostalgia explores a way to incorporate the emerging paradigm of machine errors into a playful and interactive experience. It combines the reduction of urban information into signals (x, y, z, R, G, B) with the exposure of dataset bias occurring from medium specific 3D scans. It wraps up with a game platform that allows you to create your own urban narrative by wandering in a city that rebuilds itself into a city of multiple cities and multiple identities. Your vision, position and movement is affecting the environment, while they are curated by the machine perception. There is no direct objective, other than the rearrangement of interrelations between urban elements.

This project overall celebrates experimentation as an inherent part of architectural processes. This experimentation relies mostly on software and tools, using the ones created to prioritise efficiency in a serendipitous way. It mediates the image of the city as monumental and redefines it as the centre of the flux - a hyper connected entity with connections that are continuously updated.