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Fringes of Technology and Spaces of Entanglement in the Pearl River Delta
Author(s) -
Bedir Merve,
Hilgefort Jason
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2393
Subject(s) - craft , china , megalopolis , delta , transformation (genetics) , geography , civil engineering , economic geography , engineering , archaeology , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , aerospace engineering
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.