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DOC • Spatial computing: What designers can learn from Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities

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We are still at the dawn of a new digital era: artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, augmented reality, blockchain, and other technical and societal changes are reframing the world we live in and creating new fictions. However, from a spatial design perspective, they have so far been lame and ordinary. Without the constraints in the physical world, how do we draft the urban blueprints in the metaverse? I believe planners and designers of these new worlds can find inspiration from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, in which he revealed a poetic and mathematical approach to “urban planning” in the imaginary worlds. ”What is the city today, for us? I believe that I have written something like a last love poem addressed to the city, at a time when it is becoming increasingly difficult to live there. It looks, indeed, as if we are approaching a period of crisis in urban life; and Invisible Cities is like a dream born out of the heart of the unlivable cities we know.” — Italo Calvino Invis

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