Singapore2075 - The Answer is Technology
新加坡 / singapore
薛德恺 / SEE, De-Kai, Caleb
Singapore2075 seeks to speculate on the trend of unbridled technological implementation within our built environment, where the varied integration of and seemingly benevolent decisions made on technology in everyday lives may cumulate into an unstable and unsustainable future, without our realization of the consequences unleashed.
新加坡2075思索科技在建築環境無孔不入的趨勢,關於日常生活的科技決策看似充滿善意,長久卻可能導致未來動盪、無法永續,引發意料之外的後果。
Through fiction and worldbuilding, the film invites discussions on the Internet-of-Things of today, caricaturing and challenging established dogma. Architecture performs as a character within, taken into context and hosting this uncanny future. It presents a dystopic Singapore that soughts to be the international hub that connects decoupled economic giants through the use of hybrid-reality.
影片透過虛構和建築世界的方式,帶動有關今日物聯網的討論,也嘲諷和挑戰既有教條,建築做為其中的一員,身處在這樣的脈絡下,面對如此奇異的未來,其中描繪反烏托邦式的新加坡,試圖運用混合實境,連結各個經濟強權,成為國際樞紐。
Singapore2075 seeks to speculate on the trend of unbridled technological implementation within our built environment, where the varied integration of and seemingly benevolent decisions made on technology in everyday lives may cumulate into an unstable and unsustainable future, without our realization of the consequences unleashed.
新加坡2075思索科技在建築環境無孔不入的趨勢,關於日常生活的科技決策看似充滿善意,長久卻可能導致未來動盪、無法永續,引發意料之外的後果。
Building on previous research on the hopes and pitfalls of today’s Smart Cities, three primary stakeholders are considered here: the people, the government, and corporate entities. Within this framework, the relationships and dynamics are investigated. Who has the ultimate control within the next generation smart city, and how truly smart are people in an inherently top-down smart city? How will data ownership, collection and surveillance tip the balance of power? Or will we be subjected to modular forms of control that penetrates throughout Deleuze’s Society of Control? Are Smart Cities merely facades of technocratic endeavours?
在研究現有智慧城市的優缺點後,找出人民、政府、企業實體三項主要利害關係人,在此架構下調查彼此關係和往來,在下一代智慧城市裡,誰擁有最終掌控權?在這個由上而下主導的智慧城市裡,人民是否真正具備智慧?資料所有權、資料蒐集、監控如何牽動權力平衡?德勒茲在「控制城市」中描述的模組化控制,是否會降臨在我們身上?智慧城市是否只是技術官僚作為的外衣?
Through fiction and worldbuilding, the film series made of three acts invites discussions on the Internet-of-Things of today, caricaturing and challenging established dogma. Architecture performs as a character within, taken into context and hosting this uncanny future.
影片透過虛構和建築世界的方式,帶動有關今日物聯網的討論,也嘲諷和挑戰既有教條,建築做為其中的一員,身處在這樣的脈絡下,面對如此奇異的未來。
It presents a future Singapore that had been at the intersection of a divided line within a fragmented global economy, and as a result had sought to be the hub that connects decoupled giants and economic engines with starkly different modes of governance, beliefs and mechanisms.
其中呈現的未來新加坡,站在全球破碎經濟分界線之上,各個強權與經濟引擎的治理、理念、機制大相逕庭,而新加坡試圖成為連結各方的樞紐。
The narrative takes the position of the National Cyberspace Agency (NCA), a governmental statutory board that oversees the integration of virtual space into the physical Singapore. Its goal is to shape Singapore to be a technologically advanced, neutral and compatible digital hub internationally and regionally. The relentless pursuit of the latest and newest brings back into focus the different forms of technological solutionism and technocratic tendencies of today, impacting political, social, moral, economic and environmental aspects of cities.
這項論述以「國家網路局」(NCA)的立場發言,這個政府機關負責將虛擬空間融入新加坡的實體空間,希望在國際和區域中,將新加坡塑造為科技先進、中立、兼容的數位樞紐,在不斷追求最新和更新的過程裡,反思今日尋求科技解方與技術官僚的態度,對城市的政治、社會、道德、經濟和環境造成哪些影響。