When the entire city is an experience curated by tech giants, can true resistance exist when counterculture is for sale?

Skin of Berlin is a design fiction set in a future Berlin where technology giants have commodified all aspects of counterculture into a thematic tourist simulation that sits as a digital skin over the city.

The corporeal city is rebuilt as a mediated experience where the fringes of society is folded into the mainstream using surveillance and haptic technology, influenced by technology monopolies collaborating with the government.

This project was started as part of the urban design studio “Surveillance State” taught in 2020 at the School of Architecture, University of Virginia, USA. 

Instructor - Prof Michael Lee, Prof Brad Cantrell

Partners - Alexander Wright, Ian Macpherson




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