Big data, parametric design, and the future of event industries
The challenges of the climate transition overwhelm individual agency and call for new forms of collaborations in a co-agency of human and non-human assemblages (e.g., data narratives, citizen assemblies and knowledge communities). Contextualising the concepts of co-agency and collective intelligence enables deeper understandings of how different social, political, cultural and geographical environments shape what can be done, where and to what degree: “Different people hold different pieces of information and different perspectives that, when combined, create a more complete picture of a problem and how to solve it.” Cases might include research on algorithmic modelling and simulation of large-scale cultural events and their footprints; reappropriating meta-, user- and connection data for creative purposes; game engines as creative frameworks; co-agency in emerging hybrid human–machine assemblages.