Postdigital augmented spaces: A conceptual framework

Sıla Burcu Başarır; Yüksel Demir

doi:10.4995/vlc.2024.21425

Postdigital augmented spaces: A conceptual framework

Sıla Burcu Başarır

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7905-5853

Turkey

Istanbul Technical University

Graduated from Istanbul Technical University, department of Interior Architecture, she pursued an academic career as a research assistant in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (later Graduate School) of ITU between 2013 to 2022. She graduated from the International Masters of Interior Architectural Design (IMIAD) program of the same university with a degree of Master of Arts in 2015 and has been continuing her doctoral studies in the Architectural Design program of ITU Graduate School since 2016. Her research interests are intersections of digital media, art and spatial design, design theory, design education, and speculative design.

Yüksel Demir

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9666-7410

Turkey

Istanbul Technical University

Graduated from Istanbul Technical University (ITU), and he was commissioned as Head of the Fine Arts Department and Head of the Architecture Department at ITU. He was a guest lecturer at Politecnico Di Milano DIAP (DASTU), Anadolu University Department of Architecture, and Auburn University CADC. He founded the ITU Mardin Interdisciplinary Application Research Center (MardINT), of which he is currently the director. As Advisor to the Rector, he worked to transform ITU into a research university (2016-20). He coordinated the Turkish Antarctic Research Base Working Group (2018-20) at ITU Kutup Uyg-Ar Research Center (PolRec). He currently continuing his studies at the ITU Department of Architecture in the fields of Architectural Design, Architectural Design Education, Informatics in Architectural Design, Systematic Design, Architecture and Music, Architecture and Art, science, Philosophy Relations, Architecture and Nature and Culture relations.

Submitted: 2024-03-27

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Accepted: 2024-09-30

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Published: 2024-10-31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4995/vlc.2024.21425

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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augmented space, postdigital, digital, media architecture, augmented reality

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Abstract:

Contemporary augmented spaces are situated in-between digital-analog, material-immaterial, online-offline, and real-virtual binaries. Relatedly, postdigital as a concept suggests that digital technologies are now integrated with almost all aspects of the individual and social atmosphere. Therefore, we should engage digitality through a critical approach by focusing on its intermingled situation. For this reason, reading augmented spaces with a postdigital perspective is essential to understanding and evaluating the potential of digital technologies in the context of the current line of vision. This paper aims to provide a better understanding of contemporary debates on digital technologies in the context of design. For this purpose, the article briefly reviews the definition of augmented space, and later postdigital as a concept is discussed with its fundamental characteristics. In what follows selected projects amongst the 2023 Media Architecture Biennale finalists are studied concerning the postdigital augmented spaces. As an outcome of this research, we suggest a conceptual framework that can be effective for the theory and practice of postdigital augmented spaces.

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