Designer Yin Aiwen calls for collective actions to create a new school of thoughts: by spatializing the cyberspace and exploring the urbanism thereof, cyber-urbanism is a way to affirm user right in the immaterial space. Cyber-urbanism implies reclaiming the common in cyberspace: not only in the sense that there is a need for publicly owned social spaces, but also that the design of those spaces has to be thought through the relationships among the users, the common good, the multifaceted urban life that one can maneuver with. It must aim to liberate the users from an alienated position, and empower them for unions.

In the meantime, Cyber urbanism poses fundamental questions to architects and urbanists: what is space when no dimension can be measured, what is a body when it vanishes into pixels, what is city when no tangible material exists?

For the full manifesto and the proposing five aspects for the making of Cyber-urbanism, please click the link below