Datapolis: Exploring the Footprint of Data on Our Planet and Beyond - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9462087199 ISBN 13: 9789462087194

Publisher: NAI Publishers, 2023

Synopsis

Essays and visual analyses of the material and conceptual ramifications of data in the urban environment

Data is the glue that holds our digital society together: self-driving vehicles, satellites, global internet cable networks, data centers and humanoid robots provide tangible evidence of the complex and connected world we inhabit. Yet a strikingly large share of the population understands little about data's mechanisms.
Datapolis, produced by TU Delft researchers, demystifies data, breaking down the operations that enable data to power and structure technology. The volume also contributes to the theoretical discourse concerning data and its effects on space, architecture and the environment. Through academic papers, short essays, a historical timeline, a catalog of gizmos, maps and diagrams as well as detailed drawings and photographs, this book speculates on the ways in which architecture can better engage with data, accounting for its infrastructural space and scale.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Data has become a critical component to our life - when was the last time that you spent 24 hours offline? In a way we granted the idea that we are and will be connected. Yet, we hardly comprehend its mechanisms: connected objects, self-driving vehicles, satellites, global internet cable networks, data centers and humanoid robots are yet the tangible evidence of a complex and connected world.

Datapolis contributes to a theoretical debate on data and its effects on space, architecture and environments including ecological, economic, political and societal dimensions. By means of academic papers, short essays, a historical timeline and a catalogue of gizmos, maps and diagrams, speculative proposals in sophisticated and detailed drawings and photographs, this book intends to be speculative on the ways in which architecture can get engaged with data, its infrastructural space and its scale.

Datapolis is curated by TU Delft researchers Paul Cournet and Negar Sanaan Bensi.

Edition details

• Publisher: NAI Publishers
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9462087199
• ISBN 13: 9789462087194
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Cournet Paul, Bensi Negar Sanaan