Post-digital Landscapes (2020) by Hasan Hamdan

 

“Yesterday’s spline-dominated environment was elegant and modern; today’s data-driven design environment is messily postmodern: disconnected, broken, fragmentary, rickety, patchy, and aggregate.”  -- Mario Carpo.

 

Post-digital landscapes are a series of drawings that reflect on post-digital image culture and ‘cyberculture’. Images, scripts, drawings, and essays on the internet can be downloaded, used and reused, uploaded, and duplicated. In the practice of architecture, this often takes the form of 3D models or blocks of windows, doors, or other building components. 

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Reflecting on Marcel Duchamps’ post-modern concept of the ‘readymades’, which is the process in which he selects ordinary fabricated objects and modifies them or joins them into various assemblages, thus transforming them to art. The project proposes evolving the ‘readymades’ concept from the use of analogue tools to include post-digital assemblages as an attempt to engage with concepts of big data. 

 

Post-digital landscapes is one such assemblage of many possible assemblages, and follows an architectural logic; all objects have an affinity to the grid and are composed of flat projections (plans and elevations), and categorized through architectural categories.

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