Coming across the notions of 'Emergence' and 'Swarm Intelligence' reading an article in AD issue,I tried to think of the city as an aggregation of elements that self-organise together to generate a mutually resilient organisation, so as an organization of intelligent agents, a dynamic, adaptive system based on interactions with neighbours, informational feedback loops and pattern recognition. Like any emergent system, the city is a pattern in time [1]
Taking this approach further we could appropriate the notion of the 'rhizome' from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari as an urban planning strategy. In their work, A Thousand Plateaus, they describe the city as a space of flows, as an amalgam of spaces of vectorial flows that adjust to differing inputs and impulses like some self-regulating system. In the concept of the rhizome they significantly point out the idea of forming a relationship with the other using the example of the wasp and orchid which enter in a mutual reciprocity such that the wasp has adapted to the orchid no less than the orchid has adapted to the wasp. Extending this central concept of Deleuze and Guattari we could understand the city as forming a rhizome with its inhabitants. This opens up an intriguing way of understanding the relationship between humans as ‘agents’ within this system and the fabric of the city as a form of exoskeleton to human operations. We need to distinguish between the city as a site of material composition – as anamalgam of traces of construction – and the city as the site of spatial
practices. The former can be read in terms of an accretion of material deposits, and the latter can be read in terms of choreographies of agents whose freedom of movement is constrained by these material deposits. It is as though the city is ‘formed’ by registering the impulses of human occupation. But so, too, the city constrains the possibilities of human movement through its very
physicality. There is, therefore, in Deleuzian terms, a form of reciprocal presupposition between city and occupants. The city modifies its occupants, no less than the occupants modify the city. Over time the fabric of the city evolves through interaction with its inhabitants. [2] The task of designing the city could be to set a scenario about the potential choreographies that are formed by the participants of public space in a way that the material (and immaterial) fabric evolves in response to impulses of human habitation. The interesting challenge for design is the digital modelling of this intelligent behaviour of the city's agents.
Taking this approach further we could appropriate the notion of the 'rhizome' from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari as an urban planning strategy. In their work, A Thousand Plateaus, they describe the city as a space of flows, as an amalgam of spaces of vectorial flows that adjust to differing inputs and impulses like some self-regulating system. In the concept of the rhizome they significantly point out the idea of forming a relationship with the other using the example of the wasp and orchid which enter in a mutual reciprocity such that the wasp has adapted to the orchid no less than the orchid has adapted to the wasp. Extending this central concept of Deleuze and Guattari we could understand the city as forming a rhizome with its inhabitants. This opens up an intriguing way of understanding the relationship between humans as ‘agents’ within this system and the fabric of the city as a form of exoskeleton to human operations. We need to distinguish between the city as a site of material composition – as anamalgam of traces of construction – and the city as the site of spatial
practices. The former can be read in terms of an accretion of material deposits, and the latter can be read in terms of choreographies of agents whose freedom of movement is constrained by these material deposits. It is as though the city is ‘formed’ by registering the impulses of human occupation. But so, too, the city constrains the possibilities of human movement through its very
physicality. There is, therefore, in Deleuzian terms, a form of reciprocal presupposition between city and occupants. The city modifies its occupants, no less than the occupants modify the city. Over time the fabric of the city evolves through interaction with its inhabitants. [2] The task of designing the city could be to set a scenario about the potential choreographies that are formed by the participants of public space in a way that the material (and immaterial) fabric evolves in response to impulses of human habitation. The interesting challenge for design is the digital modelling of this intelligent behaviour of the city's agents.
source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z79S63ZYva4
In actual dance choreography such intelligent systems with autonomous choreographic agents are already being implemented. Following the tradition of William Forsythe (see older post 'Choreographing the city'), Wayne McGregor in collaboration with arts researcher Scott deLahunta developed the Choreographic Language Agent, an intelligent software agent, generating unique solutions to choreographic problems to augment the dance maker's own creative decision-making processes. The six-month collaborative interdisciplinary project aimed at drawing information from the field of cognitive psychology to enhance understanding of the choreographic object.
The most recent iteration of this process has been the development of Becoming, an interactive digital object to support dance making in the studio. Reimagined less as an object or tool and more as a body, Becoming was developed in conjunction with Marc Downie (OpenEnded Group) and Nick Rothwell (Cassiel).Becoming sought to bridge the digital-physical divide between computer program and human dancer, eliciting a kinaesthetic relationship from the dancers as an artificially intelligent "eleventh dancer" that provokes new movement creation in the studio. [3]
Such a practice combined with the notion of emergence and urban intelligent systems can become more specific and specialized about the patterns of movement that emerge in the city and the space they produce can become the center of urban design.
References
[1]'Swarm Urbanism', Architectural Design Digital Cities, Vol.70 No 4 July/August 2009, Wiley
[2]'Swarm Urbanism', Architectural Design Digital Cities, Vol.70 No 4 July/August 2009, Wiley
[3]http://waynemcgregor.com/research/choreographic-language-agent
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