Haralambidou, Penelope;
Pearson, Luke;
(2025)
Inhabiting identity through cinematic and video game architectures.
Materia Arquitectura
(28)
pp. 12-25.
10.56255/ma.vi28.610.
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Abstract
Do social media platforms transform us from information consumers into data serfs in digital feudalism? How does the increasingly gamified gig economy reshape our understanding of work? Will our homes shoulder the burden of end-of-life care? Can digital technology reconstruct lost heritage and offer new homelands for diasporic identities? What is the future of the museum? Could worldbuilding immerse office work in a virtual forest? These are not just speculative questions—they were provocations for design, theory, and storytelling developed by students in the Cinematic and Videogame Architecture MArch programme (CVA) at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. 1 Architecture has long served as an underlying structuring device for both film and videogames. From set design to compositing techniques and innovations in computer graphics, the challenge of representing space has been crucial in shaping our contemporary media landscape. Consequently, the narrative and storytelling potential of time-based and interactive media are not only transforming how architecture is built and represented but also how it is imagined and experienced.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Inhabiting identity through cinematic and video game architectures |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.56255/ma.vi28.610 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.56255/ma.vi28.610 |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Architecture, Arts & Humanities |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10216125 |
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