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Renowned architect and Junya Ishigami+Associates founder, Junya Ishigami designed a multipurpose semi-covered plaza for the students of the Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan. Featuring rectangular roof openings, the plaza is unusually designed for the ceiling and ground to bend and meet at a distance, much like the horizon on the landscape.
Situated adjacent to the award-winning KAIT Workshop building, also designed by Ishigami in 2008, the plaza was conceptualised to provide a semi-outdoor breakout space for the students of the institute.
Most of the outdoor spaces on the campus were surrounded by school buildings; landscape diversity that would have otherwise resulted in a constantly changing natural environment was missing, lending a certain artificiality to the surroundings.
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Her, a 2013 film directed by Spike Jonze, a lonely writer develops a love affair with the virtual assistant of an operating system.
Brave New World, a book written in 1932 by the English author Aldous Huxley, fabricates a dystopian society whose cult of efficiency and rationality creates a humanity that ignores hardship and pain but also represses love and freedom. In Mary Shelley s 1818 book
Frankenstein, considered the first science fiction novel, a life is artificially created, producing a monster with human characteristics: wills, wishes, and fears. Whether describing the fear of artificial intelligence, the uncertainty produced by industrialization, or the limits of science, science fiction works reveal less about the future and much more about the moment in which they were created; they speak of the fears and hopes of their own time.