PROJECT 3 - RESYNTHESIZED - AN EXPERIMENT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exercise 1 is an attempt to adapt literature into graphics/visual expression of the city, while Exercise 2 is an attempt to ‘see’ the ordinary city in an extraordinary or unique way. The final project is a synthesis of the surrealism and imaginary in Exercise 1, and the realism and physical fabric of the urban conditions in Exercise 2. It stretches further the idea of ‘adaptation’ in the style of how a film maker would overlay an imaginary (utopian/dystopian) city into the real space. In brief, this project is about the exploration of an adaptive process between the imaginary and the real, and non-physical and the physical. 
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In this final project, individually, we have to predict what might happen to Kuala Lumpur in the next 25, 50 and 100 years based on Invisible Cities. Using our site observations and Italo Calvino's descriptions of fantastic cities, we attempt to extrapolate events far into the future, and visualize it with our photo manipulations of the site.

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My site, being Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, is an extremely capitalistic part of the city where competition is intense and no mercy is given to businesses who underperform. Thus I attempted to see what would happen when this place which relies on the existence of desires and memories would function and be like in the future.