Productive hybrids folding social media as urban analysis

Abstract

This paper discusses strategies of folding social media data with other geo-positioned information as a method of urban analysis. The complexities and contradictions of urban contexts have long served as engines for the abstract machine of architectural production, but these engines have been limited to formal qualities and not behavioral ones. The promise of social media is not just the production of geo-spatial information but connection of this information with the metadata of experience. Diagramming urban behavior serves to inform morphogenetic design processes as well as expand the agency of architecture.