OPEN CITY // ACTIVE
New Siena Shenzhen
A civic maker city
How fast can a city build without teaching its people to live at machine speed?
METAPOLIS // CIVIC WORLD ATLAS
Cities are prototypes.
Civilization is still under construction.
The cities we inherited are not the limit. We can imagine better ones.
PUBLIC SIGNAL
ATLAS ONLINE
PROOF CITY // 01
CURRENT TERRITORY // OPEN CITY
PUBLIC SIGNAL // LATEST
Current transmissions
Transmission
Artifact
News
Coming soon
This is Metapolis, a brand new site by Mathias Tegedal that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly,
INSTITUTIONAL LAYER
Enter by function
One body of city material. Six ways to use it.
Bureau
Investigations, incidents, citizen reports, and evidence from inside the cities.
Archive
What the cities remembered, replaced, inherited, or lost.
Workshop
Design alternatives, discarded systems, and records of how a city was made.
Academy
Methods and lessons that can be carried beyond the city file.
Field Office
Protocols for carrying fictional cities back into real ones.
Underlayer
Failures, hidden routes, contradictions, and missions that ask members to act.
MEMBER THRESHOLD // THE CIVIC GATE
A free reader hears from the cities. A member can enter them.
Free — transmissions from Metapolis.
Paid — access to Metapolis.