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Ai China Chica

Ai China Chica is one of eight storyboards developed for two Buenos Aires architectural graduate workshops and UNESCO presentations in France, Lithuania, and Sweden.

The boards were designed by Paul Guzzardo and Gustavo Cardon. Paul Guzzardo, Rocio Agra and Lucas Magurno did the animation. The animation and boards were exhibited at the 16th Annual International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, November 2019, at the University of Dundee, Scotland.

The storyboards are proposed as an alternative to the desiccated storylines that gag most urban design briefs. They offer a new mythic stew to map a way out of the digital mesh-up we are slapped hard against. They are also mythic blueprints for a line of firewalls against weaponized data. Even though digital buckshot is coming at hyper-speed, a conversation about myth and the practice of architecture has been ignored. Myths contain seeds of new stories that incrementally increase intelligence.

Notes:

• Commissioned in Lyon for Micro Meso macro in Lyon to show the story boards https://micromesomacro.com/talks/2019/paul-guzzardo-the-algorithm-that-ate-the.html
• published in https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20507828.2020.1792727

Bio

Guzzardo is a lawyer, media activist, and artist-designer. He is the innovator of a discipline which examines the intersection of artificially intelligent machines (code + things) and the City Street. It is called Recursive Urbanism. Recursive Urbanism is the result of a twenty-five- year hybrid design and litigation praxis, one built on the street and in the courtroom. Recursive Urbanism looks to the street as a stage to probe how we are BEING CHANGED by information technologies, as a platform to assemble collaboratives to SHIELD US from toxic media, and as a LAST STAND against the unraveling of the Social Contract. It explores how urban designers, traditional creative practitioners and elites fit, and or don’t, in all of this.