Global connection tiers separate people the way physical borders once did.
The Bureau of Transnationalism seeks to dissolve borders and encourage globalization by compressing these tiers of connection that currently segregate the world. This is accomplished by providing internet access of an unprecedented speed to the entirety of the world’s population in exchange for individuals’ personal data, eliminating any borders separating people from people.
The result of this complete globalization of Earth’s population requires a massive re-evaluation of the concepts of culture and diversity, of partisan politics, and of the role of government in authority. Only then can a more pure form of capitalism on the brink of anarchy be attained, where the physicality of laws has withdrawn entirely, replaced by instantaneous market demands and hive minded justice. The migrant, the hacker, the terrorist, and the celebrity are no longer the outliers of society; society becomes an outlier of the exceptional.
Each installation works at the macro scale of dissolving borders and at the micro scale rejecting rigid forms or configurations. Modularity and malleability merge together into a writhing mass of mesh and mechanics. A conductive sack attracts and retracts to and from masses and voids in the surrounding wireless topography. Physical patterns are not followed, rather the unseen geography of cell signals and wireless hotspots determine its physical form. Orb-shaped processing cores continually shift themselves to the adapting mesh around them. Coolant(s) of various viscosities are circulated into and around the cores to optimize temperature control. More conventional devices circulate the perimeter of the structure on circular tracks, creating strong links from installation to installation via long-wave transceiver dishes as well as acting as an interface for various future-proofing widgets.
001 // ORBIT TRACK Modular rings around existing towers allow for a plethora of site-specific configurations and make future upgrades easy. Various widgets including platforms, transmitters, receivers and devices can be attached, replaced, and reconfigured via crane or VTOL. This marriage of customized specialization and mass production allows for the easy deploy-ability required for such a wildly deployed infrastructure. 002 // ADAPTIVE SKIN A malleable copper/polymer membrane acts as a receiver and transmitter, adapting and reacting in real time to signal currents and densities. The Amoebic form creates a physical manifestation of the unseen topography of information permeating the atmosphere. 003 // TRACKING NODES Wireless targets are transient and rhythmic. Network links must be targeted and re-targeted throughout the 24-day cycle and be ready to respond to population shifts. The precision and adaptability of information trajectories become more relevant than the physicality of space or proximity of individuals. 004 // DATA CORES Arrays of super computing cores reside within the coolant filled sack. Information is processed and rerouted from and to targets, forming organic algorithms in the process that map social trends and process scientific data.
professor // mark stanley studio // manhatten project 2.0 research // a field guide to late post-modernism spring 2016 // final undergraduate project the university of tennessee // college of architecture and design
