Global Village Media: Coming Together in the Early 1970s at Whiz Bang Quick City

• Autores: Felicity D Scott
• Localización: Architectural design, ISSN 0003-8504, Vol. 85, Nº. 3, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Pavilions, Pop-Ups and Parasols: The Impact of Real and Virtual Meeting on Physical Space. Guest Editors Leon van Schaik and Fleur Watson), págs. 78-85
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Felicity D Scott, Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), describes here the instant city events of the early 1970s. These foreshadowed current global village media practices in what now seems a quaintly material manner: communication between sites involved the physical mailing of videotapes and ‘wire photos’ through the postal service. The sites themselves – in the US and elsewhere – were transformed into ‘instant cities’ through the erection of physical geodesic domes, teepees and inflatables in seas of mud. The true antecedents of today's instant networking, these pioneers embraced the newest technology available at the time and the most innovative forms of temporary architecture.