Urban spaces are in a constant state of flux. Cities are barraged by the forces of degradation, gentrification and renewal. Our experience of urban environments are similarly ever-shifting. The city’s practical form lies somewhere between the arrangement of the buildings and the imagination of its inhabitants.
Inspired by the surrealist parlor game exquisite corpse, Exquisite City is a collaborative 3D drawing constructed during a workshop in Belgrade, Serbia. Students ventured into the city to 3D capture the architecture. We then collaboratively reconstruct a virtual city of cubic tiles – an ornate street corner, a window with drooping shutters, a patch of cobblestones – each one a 3D scanned contribution from a participant collected during the workshop.
The Exquisite City workshop was graciously hosted at Resonate Festival 2015 in Belgrade, Serbia. It was produced by James George and Alexander Porter at Scatter.