Constrained Cities: Filter Bubbles in the Physical Space of the City
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What happens when Filter Bubbles start producing effects in the physical space of the city, creating separation (among different people and spaces)? Constrained City is a Near Future Design story Nefula created by founders Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico and presented for the Post-Internet Cities Canference http://postinternetcities, held by MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (Lisbon, 26th May 2017).
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“The article is a short story: a Design Fiction which is part of a Near Future Design, a speculative design technique and methodology which we use in our practice to produce scenarios which are the result of a systemic research on the topics which we deal with. For example, we do it with Nefula. The Story is based on our research on the Constrained Cities: a dystopian vision of the near future of the cities which we use to investigate potential risks and implications when the technology we are developing and using as a society) and the data we produce are designed to create separation in the city.”
Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico on Constrained Cities: The concept includes an exhibit which will features a wearable technology, allowing visitors to “feel” onto their body the filter bubble by simply taking a walk in town.