The internet as infrastructure
Digitalization has a fundamental impact on our lives: how we stay in touch with friends, how we search for and find information, how we organize ourselves and how we work. As a result, digital technologies are integrating into our everyday lives and the spheres of online and offline are becoming increasingly blurred. Navigating the hybrid present requires a fundamental and practical understanding of how algorithms, artificial intelligence and platforms work.
For the Edgelands Institute, Dezentrum developed an audio walk through Geneva with five stops of six minutes each. The walk aims to explain complex phenomena of digitalization in a simple way and to show the effects practically. Site-specific examples and comparisons were therefore used in all stops of the audio walk. Audio makes the digital effects in the city and in people's everyday lives audible and puts them into context.
The starting point for the audio walk was a diagnostic report by the Edgelands Institute on security, surveillance and digital technologies in Geneva. The Edgelands Institute investigates the increasing digitalization of security in cities and researches models of urban coexistence. Their pop-up institute has already been in Medellín and will open its doors in Nairobi next year.
