You are the City | Studio-X Rio

262 views · Published 28 March 2016 · 27:47 · Indexed 22 October 2026

Channel: Columbia GSAPP · 2016 · Education

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How do we perceive cities and how do we interact within the urban construct? What are the change agents and methods that we apply to visualize the complexity of the constantly changing urban configuration?

Petra Kempf employs a particular method of drawing to materialize the complexity of the city. Through a set of individual layers drawn in diagram form to be superimposed, her mapping approach allows for new stories of the city to occur, your stories! As the mind, body, and human experience reside in these drawings, it is the participant that is called upon to see, or read them. 

Although we will never fully comprehend the entire complexity of a city in one moment, we can understand the urban construct through the interaction of its parts. (Petra Kempf)

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