The drawing exposes Murmur Wall’s material assembly as an entanglement of physical elements – its steel and acrylic tubes, and virtual components – data sources and algorithms. The drawing also situates the project in spatial and social contexts by presenting it within a site – which oscillates between the specific area around the installation as well as its wider relationship to the city around it. We see this analytical approach serving designers by identifying the invisible forces shaping the outcomes of their project as a new set of opportunities and challenges within the project’s assembly – with which we must engage. It foregrounds a new set of project elements that need new treatments and considerations, not only in terms of their technical operation but their social and ethical implications as well. This work is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and developed by DataLAB at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo with research assistants Alice Huang and Vincent Min. 1 Banham, Reyner. ‘A home is not a house’ Art in America 2, no. 4, 1965 2 Johnson, Jason Kelly and Nataly Gattegno. Murmur Wall https://www.futureforms.us/ murmur-wall (Accessed Oct 3, 2019) 3 This argument is articulated in key offerings from the field of Software Studies which position software – its actual lines of code, not just its effects – as a material practice with both social and spatial outcomes. Titles include: Fuller, Matthew. Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software JSTOR. 2003 Mattern, Shannon. ‘Interfacing Urban Intelligence’ In Code and the City. Editted by Rob Kitchin and Sung-Yueh Perng. Routledge. 2016. pp 49-60 Fuller, Matthew, editor. Software Studies: A Lexicon. Cambridge Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2008. 4 https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/ algorithmic-justice-league/overview/
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FUTUREFORMS Murmur Wall, installed at the Buena Yerba Center, 2015 below: François Dallegret, Anatomy of a Dwelling , 1965
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