Yiling YANG
The City of Witchcraft
date. 07/2022
city. Catmarco Mexico
type. Urban Design
The Aztec civilization gave birth to the Mexican Indian peoples of the American lands, as well as their eccentric and mysterious culture of witchcraft, which even Mexican political leaders came to seek refuge in Catemarco.
The ideology of witchcraft left behind by civilizations with strong and harsh class systems subtly metaphors contemporary cities under capital centralization in some ways.
In this context, I try to explore how the future urban form of Catemaco will look and how it will change when this subjective consumerism drives witchcraft capital up in proportion to the time and reaches its extreme value.
Combining the ternary model (triadic theory) of Pierre's semiotics to abstract the elements of witchcraft in various fields, and reflecting that pictorial narrative may be an unorthodox but extraordinary medium for architectural and urban speculation.
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Remedios Varo
Pablo Picasso
Hieronymus Bosch
I internalize the elements for re-creation and logically connect them with the AI computational means of VQGAN+CLIP, viewing AI as urban citizens with a discourse, in a set of constraints for further speculation and development.
drawing by Yiling Yang, Procreate
