%0 Journal Article
%T FCJ-141 Spaces for Play - Architectures of Wisdom: Towards a Utopic Spatial Practice.
%A Dan Frodsham
%J Fibreculture Journal
%D 2012
%I Fibreculture Publications
%X The paper speculatively proposes a critical artistic practice that takes utopia to be a dynamic and specifically spatial device for achieving social transformation, and allies this with the ability of locative media to create virtual ¡®second worlds¡¯ in real-world spaces. It sketches a ¡®Utopic Spatial Practice¡¯ that would, through the superimposition of speculative other-worlds, deliberately create distance and incongruity between the ¡®virtual¡¯ and the ¡®real¡¯ in order to instigate a potential-generating dialectic. The paper explores parallels between Louis Marin¡¯s utopics and Pierre Levy¡¯s account of virtualization, as well as ideas about ¡®nomadic¡¯ space, and architectonic models for such a practice.
%K speculative
%K critical
%K art
%K locative
%K media
%K virtual
%K Second Life
%K Louis Marin
%K Pierre Levy
%U http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/19/fcj-141-spaces-for-play-architectures-of-wisdom-towards-a-utopic-spatial-practice/