Negotiated edges – one world, different systems is a kinetic cartography "world machine" currently featured at the 2013-14 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Hong Kong. Created by multidisciplinary design team Chiu Ning, Yuet Chan, Lau Wai Kin, and Andrew Ng, the piece is relevant to the Biennale's overall discussion of boundaries in various architectural and urban contexts ranging from an individual to a global perspective.

If you're based in Hong Kong, you can check out Negotiated edges at the Biennale until Feb. 23, 2014. You can also watch the video below to see it in action.

Here's more info on the project:



"'Negotiated edges – one world, different systems' owes its inception to an architectural thesis on boundaries as strategic exploitation of resources through transnational linkages against the backdrop of globalization. The team further developed the concept by looking beyond restrictive binaries to the multiplicity of sites and context.

Negotiated edges, be they physical or virtual, are at once triggers for, and end-effects of, transgression and creation. Together they constitute an 'ideal' intersection of will and vision in the negotiation process at times."



"Straight lines, orders, atlas, coordinates, axis, tracks, tailored movements, information mapping, boundaries drawings – They are the definite parts of the machine, the multi systems we use to analyze the world of complexity by our affordable knowledge."



"Distorted views from magnifying lens, accidental movements such as breezes and interaction with visitors, abstract projections – They are the gravity to distort the established knowledge systems, deliberate accidents for productive unknown generation."





"The world machine holds a clear rigorous aesthetic sensibility of opposing complexities – the tension between eagerness to give definite conclusions to the known by analysis and eagerness to realize and wander in the unknown by analogy."

Images courtesy of project authors.