Hyper-learning and Unlearning: A Narrative Speculation on Urbanism in Media Ecologies

TL;DR

This paper presents a speculative animation exploring how digital media ecologies reconfigure urban learning, cognition, and agency, critiquing institutional gatekeeping and emphasizing the city as a pedagogical infrastructure in a posthumanist context.

Contribution

It introduces a narrative speculative work that reimagines urbanism through media ecologies, highlighting the impact of algorithmic systems on cognition and spatial experience.

Findings

Reframes urban space as a hyper-learning apparatus

Critiques institutional gatekeeping in digital media

Reveals platform influence on memory and spatial cognition

Abstract

Hyper-learning and Unlearning is a speculative animation that reflect how learning is reconfigured within digital media ecologies. Using architectural education as a microcosm, the work reframes the city as a hyper-learning apparatus where urban space, algorithmic systems, and platform infrastructures condition cognition and agency. By staging both hyper-learning and the unlearning induced by machine-supported cognition, the work critiques institutional gatekeeping while revealing how platforms reshape expertise, memory, and spatial experience. This project invites viewers to reconsider how urban space becomes pedagogical infrastructure in a posthumanism era.