Machinic Magic

Machinic Magic

Divić, Antea (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Sohn, Heidi (mentor)
Kousoulas, Stavros (mentor)
van der Meel, Hubert (mentor)
Sepulveda Carmona, Diego Andres (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab

2019-07-08

This project is an attempt to bring back play, from the mere simulation it is now, to a creative force that it once was. It questions whether the entertainment park is still relevant in contemporary society and whether it can be reimagined and transformed from a scripted to a more unscripted arena of action. The aim of this project is to create an environment that is not just consumable but also productive and transformative, transforming life rather than an individual. A life that is valuable and made out of zest, beauty, wonder, and adventure; life as something that is lived for its own sake; something that is a value in and of itself, in the unexchangeable currency of experience. This project is not a ‘thing’ (an object, space, a building, or a site) but an assemblage of different components, scales, actions, potentials and practices working together to produce play. More than anything, it is a method, a principle that can be transferred and applied elsewhere.

play
value
desire
entertainment
entertainment park
coney island
territory
gamification
layers
constraints
rules
membrane
movement
markers
mapping
event

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Student theses

master thesis

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