Fringes of Technology and Spaces of Entanglement in the Pearl River Delta

China's Pearl River Delta is a burgeoning megalopolis and a hotbed of technological transformation. Based in one of its cities, Shenzhen, the spatial knowledge exchange platform Aformal Academy was set up to explore the nature of this transformation. Its co‐founders Merve Bedir and Jason Hilgef...

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Published in:Architectural design 2019-01, Vol.89 (1), p.78-83
Main Authors: Bedir, Merve, Hilgefort, Jason
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
21st‐century Silk Road
aerial imaging technology
Aformal Academy
Africa
Alibaba
Architecture
Art Industry Association of Dafen Oil Painting Village
Automobile industry
Baidu
Belt and Road Initiative
caves
Chinese government
Chongqing
Dafen painters’ village
Data collection
data collection test fields
data farming and harvesting
driverless navigation technology
electric car companies
Electronic commerce
Entanglement
Expo 2010 Shanghai
e‐commerce villages
Foshan
Fujian province
geographic information systems (GIS)
Hacker Robot Lab
Harvesting
Huizhou
JD.com
Makerspaces
Megalopolises
Ningde
online platforms
Pearl River Delta (PRD)
post‐human
Rivers
Second World War
Shenzhen
Special Economic Zones
Supply chain management
Taobao villages
Technology
Transformations
urban periphery maker spaces
World War II
Xiamen
Yang Xiong
Yiwu
Zhuhai
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Summary:China's Pearl River Delta is a burgeoning megalopolis and a hotbed of technological transformation. Based in one of its cities, Shenzhen, the spatial knowledge exchange platform Aformal Academy was set up to explore the nature of this transformation. Its co‐founders Merve Bedir and Jason Hilgefort present a range of ventures that have been happening on the urban and digital margins, where human and nonhuman intermingle. Mechanisation, e‐commerce, online supply‐chain management and data harvesting are impacting a whole array of fields, from building construction and electric car production to craft villages and landscape projects.
ISSN:0003-8504
1554-2769
DOI:10.1002/ad.2393