The design follows a story line of a society that is uplifted by a cybermind called Atlas.
An Open Letter to the Ones Below
In Year 2050 tension between our society's two parts rose dangerously: the ones who accept the world as it is and the revolutionists. As a solution, rational revolutionists are placed on the sky as they requested, they said “If land is in thy culture’s, government’s, laws’ and beliefs’ possession than let the skies be ours.”. So, two parts of the society could co-exist in the same place with the help of The semi-self-sustaining generative structure named ROBOSYMBIOTICORGANISM(RSO). With the help of its Robot Multi-tools and recent revolutions on the material field, it was capable of and allowed to form and expanding itself by recycling unused parts of the city as long as It was not harming the dogmatics.
Alas peace didn’t last long. In Year 2070 existence of the RSO became a threat for the dogmatics. RSO was swallowing all parts of the city without hesitation whether used/wanted or not. So, a war started against RSO. In the meantime, ATLAS was being built. A self-aware cognitive-learner, a cybermind, whose capabilities are beyond understanding of humankind. ATLAS’ purpose was to serve RSO, Its citizens and the all the creatures within. With ATLAS at their disposal RSO quickly won the war but not with the violence but politics and not against people but against dogmatism. Some people converted and welcomed to the life on top of the sky, some of them fled or just abandon their city.
In 2120 human race were finally living where they always dream of through the eras of their existence, not they are bound to.
ATLAS was guiding and learning from its people. Through Its calculations ATLAS offered more than the sky, the universe. Thus, age of expansion has begun and a new essence for mankind has been born.
Today we are ready to leave, we have a question, where will you be when we venture forth?
2017
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RoboSymbioticOrganism- A society located above ground ,living in Cells that are ruled by Atlas.
Cell - City making structures ruled by Atlas. It consumes 'the city below' to build itself from inside.
Atlas- Self aware cybermind of the RoboSymbioticOrganism.
Designer: Gönenç Kurpınar
Instructor: Assoc. Dr. Ülkü İnceköse, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ebru Yılmaz, Guest Lecturer Uğur Yıldırım, Guest Lecturer Deren Uysal
RoboSymbioticOrganism by Gönenç Kurpınar in Turkey won the WA Award Cycle 29. Please find below the WA Award poster for this project.
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