Tom Verebes organised and moderated the Architectural Association Visiting School AAVS Shanghai Symposium 2018. The theme for this year’s annual AAVS SHANGHAI SYMPOSIUM, URBAN INTEL, aimed to unpack and critically assess the nascent discourses and methods of what is rather prosaically categorized in common parlance today, as the Smart City. Our Cities are on the verge of an unprecedented transition in the paradigms and apparatus guiding their organisation and behaviours, brought about by the information revolution and the capacities for sentience, communication, participation and automation. In a series of presentations and salon conversations, a diverse group of designers, architects and urbanists were brought together for this event, to discuss and debate the consequences of accelerating technology for c21 urban culture.
AAVS Shanghai Symposium 2018 – URBAN INTEL
