This year, ContextAir is on break and will not be accepting residents. Thank you for your interest and we hope to have the opportunity to work together in the future!
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Haoyu Wang's project "The Canceled Futures", created within the framework of the ContextAIR 2023 residency program, is now available to the public.
By incorporating panoramic photography, speculative urban design, artificial intelligence image generation and Web-VR development, the project aims to visualize alternative cityscapes of the 'cancelled' future of Plovdiv.
The public will have access by scanning a QR code to the relevant views and will see the urban transformation of Plovdiv in its 'cancelled' future on their mobile devices, while having a real-world counterpart to complete the immersive experience.
De-territorialized Listenings:
Memento Maritsa by The New Liquidity in collaboration with Voin de Voin
14.30 Artists Talk with The New Liquidity at Nishanian House, 1 Han Omurtag str., Plovdiv Old town
16.00 Soundwalk - Maritsa River, Parking lot of the Water Chamber, bul. Maritsa - South
Haoyu Wang is a resident of ContextAir 2023 and will present some of his previous work and his new project inspired by Plovdiv.
As an architect and urban designer who grew up in post-socialist China and lived most of the adulthood abroad, I am always interested in the canceled futures of architectural imagination, particularly those overturned by the fall of communism.
By incorporating panoramic photography, speculative urban design, AI image generation, and Web-VR development, the project aims to visualize alternative cityscapes of Plovdiv’s canceled futures from its communist past. The resulting Web-VR scenes will match selected views from Plovdiv’s two iconic hills: Dzambaz Tepe above the touristy old town and Burnardzhika Tepe that overlooks the greater metropolitan area. When visiting these viewpoints, audiences will find QR-code access to the corresponding scenes and see Plovdiv’s urban transformation into its canceled futures on their mobile devices, meanwhile having the real-world counterpart to complete the immersive experience.
Haoyu Wang is an architect, urban designer, and Ph.D. candidate in artistic research at Aalto University, Finland.
He grew up in the city of Zhengzhou, China, studied architecture at the University of Miami between 2012 and 2017, received his Master of Science degree in Urbanism from MIT in 2020, and practiced design in Japan, China, and the United States before moving to Europe in 2023. His emerging creative practice Architectural Fiction, as an artistic sideline of his doctoral research, explores alternative methods of speculative design and visual storytelling to communicate contemporary questions of architecture and urbanism across scales.
His current interests include 20th-Century design movements, post-colonial cultural shifts, climate change, and digital futures.
https://haoyuwang.xyz/
ContextAir is happy to announce the third resident for 2023, Haoyu Wang.
He is an architect, urban designer, and Ph.D. candidate in artistic research at Aalto University, Finland. He grew up in the city of Zhengzhou, China, studied architecture at the University of Miami between 2012 and 2017, received his Master of Science degree in Urbanism from MIT in 2020, and practiced design in Japan, China, and the United States before moving to Europe in 2023. His emerging art practice Architectural Fiction, as a creative sideline of his doctoral research, explores alternative methods of speculative design and visual storytelling to communicate contemporary questions of architecture and urbanism across scales. Particular themes of interest include 20th-Century design movements, post-colonial cultural shifts, climate change, and digital futures.
