The Multiverse of the HSP: Towards an Urban Ontology

Principle Investigator：Ya-Chung Chuang

Ya-Chung Chuang examines the Hsinchu Science Park and the urbanization of its surroundings. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s book Urban Revolution, his research contends that urbanization is the continuous creations out of a series of implosion-explosions, resulting in the convergence of people, wealth, goods, technology and ideas, and also making possible the productions of space that develop into inner cities, suburbs, satellites township, and so forth. His project explores how these
worlds are entangled and interact. In view of the material basis of the HSP, he focuses on the life of semiconductors, examining the interior power of the chips, and the extensional impacts they cause, including the construction of the Science City and the Water World. Starting from the question of what have contributed to the strategic importance of the HSP in the new century, he discovers the multiverse in between the city, what he calls Organic Republic and Intertidal Paradise and other multi-species, super-material pluriverses.