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This page gathers inquiries related to the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies and to MediaCity 4: MEDIACITIES, the international conference, workshops, and exhibition held May 3–5, 2013 at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
The conference brought together researchers, architects, and students examining pluralities and globalities in the relations between urbanity and digital media, including work presented through the Reflexive Architecture Machines sessions, the Architecture and Situated Technologies Symposium, and the Hida Workshop.
The Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies operates as a research initiative exploring how digital media reshape the experience of urban life. Its work treats the city as a layered environment where architectural practice, communication infrastructures, and everyday inhabitation intersect. Through exhibitions, publications, and collaborative inquiry, the Center examines how situated technologies can reveal previously overlooked entanglements between built form and contemporary cultural formations, encouraging a more reflexive understanding of media within the spaces we inhabit.
MediaCity 4: MEDIACITIES was an international gathering convened at the University at Buffalo that brought together architects, scholars, and students to consider pluralities and globalities in the relations between urbanity and digital media. The program combined conference sessions, hands-on workshops, and an exhibition, creating a shared forum for discussing how emergent technologies influence design research, urban inquiry, and the social life of cities across varied cultural contexts.
A central theme running through the Center and its associated events is the notion of crossing boundaries between disciplines, media, and sites. Initiatives such as the Architecture and Situated Technologies Symposium and the Hida Workshop invited participants to investigate responsive materials, reflexive machines, and post-capitalist urbanity as fields of expanded practice. By hosting conversations that link architecture, media theory, and civic engagement, the initiative fosters methods for articulating the role of communication in shaping contemporary city life.
Related Resources
- Ongoing research, publications, initiatives, courses, and people associated with the Center are hosted at cast.b-ap.net.
- Conference schedule, program, and proceedings materials are linked from the navigation above.
- Details on the advisory committee that guided the organization of MediaCity 4 are available via the Committee page.