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Hyper-learning and Unlearning: A Narrative Speculation on Urbanism in Media Ecologies

Anqi Wang, Yue Hua, Xinyue Zhang, Jindi Jia, Corneel Cannaerts, Michiel Helbig, Pan Hui

Abstract

Hyper-learning and Unlearning is a speculative animation that reflect how learning is reconfigured within digital media ecologies. Using architectural education as a microcosm, the work reframes the city as a hyper-learning apparatus where urban space, algorithmic systems, and platform infrastructures condition cognition and agency. By staging both hyper-learning and the unlearning induced by machine-supported cognition, the work critiques institutional gatekeeping while revealing how platforms reshape expertise, memory, and spatial experience. This project invites viewers to reconsider how urban space becomes pedagogical infrastructure in a posthumanism era.

Hyper-learning and Unlearning: A Narrative Speculation on Urbanism in Media Ecologies

Abstract

Hyper-learning and Unlearning is a speculative animation that reflect how learning is reconfigured within digital media ecologies. Using architectural education as a microcosm, the work reframes the city as a hyper-learning apparatus where urban space, algorithmic systems, and platform infrastructures condition cognition and agency. By staging both hyper-learning and the unlearning induced by machine-supported cognition, the work critiques institutional gatekeeping while revealing how platforms reshape expertise, memory, and spatial experience. This project invites viewers to reconsider how urban space becomes pedagogical infrastructure in a posthumanism era.
Paper Structure (23 sections, 7 figures)

This paper contains 23 sections, 7 figures.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Related Work
  3. Transformative City in Media Ecology
  4. Speculation as a Narrative Urbanism
  5. Conceptual Framework: A Speculative Narrative
  6. Positioning
  7. Speculative Narrative Apparatus
  8. Metaphor: Pedagogical Ruins--Media Archaeology in Point Clouds
  9. Prologue: Entering an Gamified XR World
  10. Mediatization Square: Learning as Infrastructure in the Archive--Urbanism
  11. Avatar as Apparatus: Scanned Bodies in Posthuman Learning Systems
  12. The Dissipation of Institutional Space and Algorithmic Remnants
  13. The Compressed City as Hyper-Learning Engine
  14. Content Generation Pipeline
  15. Narrative and Scenarios
  16. ...and 8 more sections

Figures (7)

  • Figure 1: The central avatar operates as a distributed interface, mediating and connecting multiple urban environments.
  • Figure 2: Conceptual framework illustrating the Metaphor part of the animation structure, in which learning milestones are translated into point-cloud representations through a media-archaeological lens.
  • Figure 3: Narrative structure of the speculative XR world experience, outlining the progression of speculative scenarios and conceptual lenses.
  • Figure 4: Dissolved city streets rendered as fragmented and reconfigured urban infrastructures.
  • Figure 5: An avatar as a posthuman learning agent situated between embodied perception, platform mediation, and urban infrastructure.
  • ...and 2 more figures