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Simulation
Editors Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Noa Levin, Sascha Roesler
Contributors Joshua Silver, Andri Gerber, Orit Halpern, Marco Caracciolo, Peter Krapp, Darío Negueruela del Castillo, Anne Dippel

As tools of computation and simulation used by climatologists and planners are becoming more and more sophisticated, urban futures are increasingly uncertain. In this context, the relations between urban and cultural production and the transforming tools and methods for forecasting and simulating the climate reposition the role of architecture and art in envisioning the future.

Simulation is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Professorship for Theory of Urbanization and Urban Environments at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio.

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Digital Twins and Analog Kin
Anne Dippel
Grounding predictive methods with substantial and existential data is not a retreat from computational power, but the condition of its responsible use.
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Seeing the City like a Theory
Darío Negueruela del Castillo
What does it mean to ask AI to see the city how Henri Lefebvre saw it?
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From Models to Simulations: Architecture Inside Out
Peter Krapp
Simulation does not belong exclusively to digital culture; it has deep historical roots in analog modeling.
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Weirded Urban Spaces
Marco Caracciolo
New Weird fiction and its offshoots in film and video games rarely reference climate change directly, but their uneasy imagination of human-nonhuman relations resonates powerfully—perhaps more powerfully because of its indirectness—with the environmental crisis being experienced today.
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A Government of Agents: The Experimental Logics of Artificial Intelligence
Orit Halpern
Across climate science, logistics, pandemic response, and military operations, a new class of AI platforms is emerging that treats the planet as a laboratory and politics as a matter of automated bureaucracy.
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When Theory Falters and Simulations Seduce: Environmental Games as Counter-Models
Andri Gerber
While it seems futile to oppose simulations with new theories, games offer an alternative: they incorporate simulations, yet in a way that allows players to interact with them, probe their assumptions, and understand their underlying logic.
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Observing the Future: Ecologies of Architectural Simulation
Joshua Silver
Within the networks of architectural production, consultants use digital simulations to make the future present.
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Editorial
Noa Levin, Sascha Roesler, and e-flux Architecture
Simulation is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Professorship for Theory of Urbanization and Urban Environments at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio.
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Technology
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Architecture, Climate change, Cybernetics, Virtual & Augmented Reality

Simulation is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Professorship for Theory of Urbanization and Urban Environments at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio.

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