Reflection

MAJOR SCIENTIFIC BREAK-THROUGH

SUPERMATTER

ANASTASIA GLOBADAVID COOKSTUART TAYLOR

Swiss Scientists develop 3D printing technology that allows users to re-materialise disused matter into new spatial configurations.

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BREAKFAST

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RE-MAT-MIX SYSTEM Material is fed into ‘RE-MAT-MiXers’ which transform redundant material into an ethereal solution which, with the application of parametric code, is transformed into useful matter.

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RE-MAT-MIX NZ 0264.577 RE-MAT-MIX RUSSIA 4331.2288

The natural development of this technology leads to the inception of teleportationtechnology where the user can rematerialise instantly anywhere in the world.

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TELEPORTATIONNew way of movement in space

SPATIAL ALLOTMENT SCHEMEnetworked even distribution of individual spatial allotments

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This leads to the New Zealand Government introducing a spatial allotment scheme without any traditional streets, devised as the most democratic means of evenly distributing matter and space (or MA$)

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EVOLUTION

Design

of individual Allotments

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The evolution of the urban fabric sees dramatic reconfiguration from individual plots within space to an organic agglomeration with no need for circulation as disused materials are re-programmed as useful space

SPACE AND MATTER DISTRIBUTION

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social inequity due to commodification of space and limited resources

individual spaceindividual matter

Inevitably, the commodification of space and (limited) matter results in a social inequity which ironically mimics the current urban stratification.

SINGLE ALLOTMENTEach person is free to manipulate their own allotment

Each person is free to manipulate their own allotment, dependent only on the materials available to them and the arrangement of their proximate neighbours

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JUNK SPACEOver time incremental slithers of space become lost as junk space

Because spaces can only equal (or be lesser to) the input materials, space gradually begins to shrink as matter is lost as ‘junk space’ – much like coins down a couch

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SPACEsecond-hand

Entrepreneurial “second-hand space dealers” realise the economic potential of such junk space, buying the decreased allotments and turning them upside down to gather the ‘slithers’ of junk space which are then collected into significant parcels.