I-PERIPHERY OF METAPOLIS 

Ada Kwiatkowska

Abstract 

Contemporary urban landscape is an impressionistic picture in pointillism-like style. Urban plasma extends from the place of one' s presence, I-periphery, to the present infiniteness, defined by the points of view and review, surrounded by the seemingly homogeneous space of polis. Moving from one defined point to the another one means passing along the line in the anonymous surroundings or waiting for connection in the absent surroundings. The life of metapolis takes place on different real and virtual public domains, which are becoming the platforms of information exchanges in local and global scale. There is an inequality of real and virtual functions of polis. Virtual representations of metapolis are rather projections than mappings of the real city. I-periphery of metapolis are included or excluded from these domains according to in- and outside or off- and online relations between human being and meta-context.

Article:

Kwiatkowska, Ada, „I-Periphery of metapolis", [in:] EURAU12: Public Space and Contemporary City, European Symposium on Research in Architecture and Urban Design, Porto, Madalena Pinto da Silva (ed.), Porto: Faculty of Architecture University of Porto, 2012, pp. 1-7 (drawings by Ada Kwiatkowska) 

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