- Title
- Theatrical tactics : urban praxis and the spectacle city
- Creator
- Robson, Matthew
- Subject
- Architecture and society, Collective memory and city planning, Information society, Social media
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier
- http://ujcontent.uj.ac.za8080/10210/387121
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/226113
- Identifier
- uj:22854
- Description
- M.Tech. (Architectural Technology), Abstract: As technology advances exponentially, the ways in which humans interact socially have become faster, less physical and less “authentic“ - in that authentic exchange is a physical experience and one that can be remembered. We have become somewhat oblivious to how we interact in our city, as previous moments of social exchange have been reduced to a digital interface or synthetic-surface experience. The ways in which we document and broadcast our city are translated through digital media representations like that of Instagram or Snapchat - an unique mobile app that allows you to send photos and videos, both of which only last for a brief moment of time, before they disappear forever. In this technological era experience, memory and intimacy continuously challenge our understandings of space. Humans already possess the ability to inhabit multiple realities and project our social identities into a virtual realm of digitised consciousness, while occupying multiple locations simultaneously through a disembodied presence.
- Contributor
- Wright, Eric, Morgado, Claudia
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Johannesburg
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