Team project at SUSTech School of Design, led by Prof. Enza Migliore and Prof. Marcel Zaes Sagesser.
As a team member, I was the leader for the 8-week on-site fieldwork in Shenzhen, such as photography, video, 3D scan, organization, classification and archiving for samples etc. After the fieldwork, I ran experiments on digital-physical materials experiments to 3D print, negotiated and associated with the curatorial team of the Shenzhen Design Week, and edited a part of the film that documents the fieldwork in Shenzhen, China.
南方科技大学设计学院的团队项目，由 Enza Migliore 教授和 Marcel Zaes Sagesser 教授主导。作为团队成员，我负责了在深圳为期八周的实地调研工作，包括摄影、视频拍摄、3D 扫描、样本整理、分类与归档等。实地调研结束后，我进行了数字-物理材料实验以用于 3D 打印，与深圳设计周的策展团队进行沟通与对接并参与剪辑了记录此次深圳实地调研的部分影片。
“A Grain of” is a technology-based, speculative approach toward a holistic understanding of our cities – on the example of Shenzhen. Scientific methods of long-term data sampling from three exemplary areas of the city have yielded in a database that informs this research: a mountainous urban forest, an under-construction high tech district on a reclaimed site, and a densely populated historical retail area. The database shows how the material ecologies we live with daily are assemblages shaped by human, geological, industrial, and technological forces. While this holds for quite any location on Earth, this research shows the specifics of what these forces produce on a micro-scale in Shenzhen. The holistic approach allows this research to expand beyond material data to sonic, magnetic, vibrational, and digital traces. Methods of speculative futuring and scientific data re-interpretation are then combined with advanced technologies.
“一粟” 以深圳为例，旨在用基于技术与思辨性的方法全面了解我们的城市。本研究对城市中的三个典型区域进行了长期数据采样，分别是: 一个山区城市森林，一个正在开发建设中的高科技区，以及一个人口密集的传统商业区。该数据库展现了我们日常生活中所处的物质生态是如何由人类、地质、工业和技术因素共同塑造为集合体的。尽管这种情况几乎可以适用于地球上的任何地方，但本研究仅供展示微观规模下这些因素在深圳市所产生的具体效应。研究的整体分析从材料数据扩展到声音、磁场、振动和数字痕迹。随后将推测性未来及对科学数据重新诠释的研究方法与先进技术相结合。展览呈现了一个沉浸式的空间，观众可以步入其中：大型立方体代表这座城市中物质的一“粟”。数据可视化、声音化和微观物质的规模放大为观众提供了一种多模态的批判性体验，让观众能够理解我们周围城市建设世界的混合性质。通过展示城市作为动态集合体的研究，将科学与感官相结合，我们可以推测城市物质的混合化及其如何在微观上塑造我们未来城市的形态 – 基于一“粟” 个体的规模。
Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Design
Materialities Research Group + Sound Studies Group
Team leaders:
Enza Migliore, Assistant Professor
Marcel Sagesser, Assistant Professor
Research Team Members:
Yiyuan Bai, Zhaorui Liu, Zhonghui Tang, Simeng Wang, Yaohan Zhang, Bo Dong, Peihua Huang, Yujing Ma, Zichun Xia, Zhiyi Zhang
Shenzhen, China 2024
The exhibit suggests an immersive room: a large cube representing a material “grain” of this city, into which the audience steps. Data visualization, sonification, and upscaling of micro-materialities produce a multimodal critical experience for the audience, who can access the hybrid nature of the built urban world around us. Through this research that shows the city as a dynamic composite assemblage and combines the scientific with the sensory, we can speculate on the hybridization of urban matter and how it will shape our future cities on a micro scale – on the scale of the individual “grain.”
该展览构建了一个沉浸式空间：一个巨大的立方体象征着这座城市的物质“颗粒”，观众可以步入其中。通过数据可视化、声音化处理以及对微观物质性的放大呈现，展览为观众提供了一种多模态的批判性体验，让人们得以感知我们所处城市建筑的混杂本质。这项研究将城市呈现为一个动态的复合聚合体，并将科学维度与感官体验相结合，由此我们可以推测城市物质的杂合化趋势，以及它将如何在微观尺度——即单个“颗粒”的尺度上——塑造我们未来的城市。
