Spatialization Takes Command - Metaverse Urbanism : Notes on the Future of Urbanism, the Internet, and Life as we Live it.

Metaverse Urbanism is a seminal work that explores the spatial internet and its implications, touching on the future of architecture, urbanism, and spatial design. The book is structured into five parts, beginning with an introduction that provides an overview of the evolution of the internet and the concept of the spatial internet, as well as an examination of key topics such as content creation, digital identity, cyberspace, neurotechnology, ecology, and new practice models. The second chapter provides readers with some of the jargon, current landscape, and technosphere enabling them to gain a better understanding of the concepts explored in the book. The third part of the book, “Letters from Tomorrow Today,” delves into cutting-edge topics such as Electrical Ecologies, Media Geology, The Network State, gamified parenthood, technobiophilia, spatiology, augmented browsing, digital graveyards, promptism, and mineral intelligence, among others. These concepts provide a glimpse into the future of social, economic, technological, cultural, and urban phenomena that will shape and will be shaped by the metaverse. The fourth chapter, “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Metaverse Urbanism,” lays out a blueprint for metaverse cities, and puts forward a didactic structure to metaverse urbanism. This section explores topics such as virtual world-building, automated urban morphologies, planning, the DAO stack, virtual urban economies, data, and metaverse lands. Finally, “The Gamium City-World,” defines a new concept, the City-world, through a specific project that demonstrates a realized example of virtual cities. This project includes 10 neighborhoods with unique designs, including Genesis, SAT, Ilios, Kaban, Panthera, Egea, Sena, Khala Tua, OX, Rei, and Noa. The book offers a sophisticated exploration of the metaverse as the natural evolution of the Internet into the Internet of ownership and places. It argues that architects, urbanists, and spatial designers shall be the driving force behind metaverse urbanism and that the metaverse is a phygital space that will change everything. The book’s comprehensive structure and in-depth exploration of concepts make it an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the future of technology and its impact on urban design.

• | Author: Firas Safieddine
• | Publisher: ACTAR
• | Publication Date: Oct 22, 2024
• | Number of Pages: 42 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1638401470
• | ISBN-13: 9781638401476