Robot Citizens: Architecture & Social Responsibility Now, Dimensions of Citizenship. US Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, 2018.
US Pavilion courtyard
3:00–4:30p.m.
Vast technological infrastructures increasingly dominate contemporary life, calling into question traditional assumptions about public space, citizenship, and identity as coherent organizing ideas for a redemptive humanism. As our built-up environment becomes increasingly mediated and controlled by algorithms and the world’s ecology is permanently marked by economic production, must ideas like citizenship, cities, and social responsibility be replaced by a posthuman logic, and what would its implications be for collective action and the shared spaces we inhabit? A panel introduced by SCI-Arc Director Hernan Diaz Alonso and featuring Laura Kurgan of Center for Spatial Research, Charles Renfro of Diller Scofido + Renfro, architectural historian Marrikka Trotter of SCI-Arc, and Liam Young of Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today discusses the ethical questions facing the future of architecture and urbanism, moderated by architecture critic and curator Stephen Zacks.
