Attractive City Generator - ETH CAAD

The "Attractive City Generator" - an interactive installation by:
Sofia Georgakopoulou - Edyta Augustynowicz - Stefanie Sixt - Dimitri Demin
- ETH D-ARCH CAAD MAS - http://www.mas.caad.arch.ethz.ch - Prof. L. Hovestadt
- special thanks to: Benjamin Dillenburger - Michael Hansmeyer - Steffen Lemmerzahl
- developed with processing: http://www.processing.org

- The Attractive City Generator was conceived and developed as a part of a research project at the ETH in Zurich, at the chair of Computer Aided Architectural Design. Our task was to explore urban design methodologies with the use of object oriented programing. The idea behind it, is to explore urban design methodologies, based on object oriented programing. Our particular area of interest is the use of interactivity in urban planning, with our main goal being the integration and emancipation of citizens.
Attractive City Generator is a tool to educate people how cities could be created in many ways and different settings in a very playful way.
We want to bring everyone closer to architecture, to inspire people for our field of activity and to encourage creativity.
Our goal is to make people aware of social condititons in an urban network and encourage them to take part in decisions - involve people into the process of urban planning .
We as urban planners are only setting the basic rules for the city as a basic framework.
Instead of using a mouse or a keyboard, the application is designed much more intuitively and contextually for the user.
The information can be presented more approachable.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• CAAD
• ETH Zurich
• city
• urban planning
• parametric design
• object oriented programming
• processing.org

[soul170]

Fantastic application! Please keep us posted on its development.

[sofiag1976]

will do! thanks!

[sofiag1976]

thanks! that's great!

[potpie921]

great vid

[moicoGR]

Great project with a lot of potentials! Bravo!

[olaant]

It's really impressive. Congrats :)

[isabelleL1]

Great project!! I'd love to see kids playing with this application and the cities they would built with it :)

Looking forward to see more!

[smithee11]

Really nice work - i dont normally put two blog posts from the same course up, but this is fantastic work - its on digital urban :)

Andy