An exhibition of digital experiences which reimagine and reconfigure Edinburgh’s George IV Bridge through a ‘digital excavation’ of the once-hidden spaces and imaginaries of this urban artefact.
Counter Archaeologies of the City-to-Come is an exhibition of digital experiences which reimagine and reconfigure Edinburgh’s George IV Bridge through a ‘digital excavation’ of the once-hidden spaces and imaginaries of this urban artefact. The digital experiences will propose new stories and myths which imagine and speculate alternative futures for the monumental civic infrastructure of the bridge and the wider urban context. The exhibition is produced by students, staff and researchers from Edinburgh College of Art, exploring the potential of digital technologies as tools for world-building im/possible futures.
This project is led by the Image|Imaging|Interiors research cluster at Edinburgh College of Art, and is supported by supported by the Student Experience Grant, Inspace and the Institue for Design Informatics. The exhibition is part of the open program for Architecture Fringe 2025, the inter/national festival of design, architecture and the built environment.
Exhibition Details
Dates: 11 – 15 Jun, 2025
Time: 10:00 – 16:00 daily | Free/Drop-In
Location: Inspace, 1 Crichton St, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Launch Event
Dates: 11 Jun, 2025
Time: 17:30
Location: Inspace, 1 Crichton St, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
About Image|Imaging|Interior research cluster
The Image|Imaging|Interior research cluster explores new crossdisplinary practices and frameworks of knowledge-making through which to interrogate the interior, its image, and its imaging. The contemporary interior, its design and fabrication, is a 3-dimensional space that is increasingly smeared across and embedded upon the 2-dimensional screen. In the digital image-based society, a range of technological platforms collapse space and reconfigure the interior as a mediated artefact circulated in a multitude of overlapping and colliding virtual and actual 2d/3d conditions. The Image|Imaging|Interior research cluster proposes timely and urgent investigations to explore how virtual and physical spaces, and their design and fabrication, directly engage and inform each other, to present arrangements at the interstice of 2d and 3d, image and actual.
The Image|Imaging|Interior research cluster collaborates across Edinburgh College of Art and The Glasgow School of Art
About Inspace
Inspace is part of the Institute for Design Informatics and is a collaborative hub, commissioning and producing creative activity. Our public programme connects data, research and creative talent. We host events and exhibitions where people can explore, learn, debate and create. Our programme unlocks digital technologies, tools and data and explores their role in society through a creative lens. We are home to Inspace City Screens, a unique seven screen street front projection space visible from Potterrow in Edinburgh.