The digital revolution going on from the 1990s has lead to ever more networked societies, has changed power balances, wealth and knowledge distribution and is increasingly encroaching the relative independence of the disciplines of architecture and urbanism and us human beings. As our bodies, buildings, and cities are being retrofitted with technology to gain dynamic intelligence and contextual awareness, how might we, as designers, provide visions of new spatial typologies and alternative modes of practice?

These and other questions are provocatively put forward by the exhibition Architecture in a Hyper-Liquid world, which showcased work by students of Critical Intermediate Affairs (CIA) at the Chair of Urbanism & Urban Architecture at the Eindhoven University of Technology. These questions were addressed by way of a panel discussion moderated by Bernard Colenbrander. Additionally, students pitched their (speculative) design and research work in an attempt to further our understanding of the implications and potentialities of complex ongoing contemporary phenomena for architectural and urban design through spatial imagination.

Watch the session here

Image: Narindath Maraj

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