Big Data UniverCity
Team members: Artem Sukhoplyuev, Polina Kulagina, Anna Misharina, Keith Chung
Nationality: Russia, USA
Institution: Studio CRIT
In the age of academic inflation and devaluation of higher education, Simulacrum explores new ways of knowledge consumption and production. It is a fair of experiences that produces fluid intelligence. There, knowledge turns into a ceaseless landscape of architecture.
Simulacrum replicates real-life and creates imaginary challenges. The learning becomes a game with an individualized script. Each script has its own reality that plays in an adaptable physical space. Inside Simulacrum, the walls rise and fall; the floor changes its topography. The pumps and engines work non-stop adjusting spaces to the imaginary worlds of educational game. The computers process virtual realms. A student travels through the spaces alone but their path intersects with those of others creating common ground for collaboration. The end of the final challenge means two things: the student failed to advance or dived into the eternal knowledge that can elevate them over competitors in the outside world.
BEGIN
ENTER “Preparation Cell”
INSTALL “Wearable AR Enabler”
BEGIN education
IF education challenge N+X = true THEN
ENTER “Ether”
ELSE
BEGIN education challenge N
DO WHILE education challenge N = false
IF education challenge N = true THEN
LET education challenge N = true
END IF
LOOP
END IF
END