Hyper-learning and Unlearning: A Narrative Speculation on Urbanism in Media Ecologies
Computers and Society
2026-03-17 v1
Abstract
Hyper-learning and Unlearning is a speculative animation that reflect how learning is reconfigured within digital media ecologies. Using architectural education as a microcosm, the work reframes the city as a hyper-learning apparatus where urban space, algorithmic systems, and platform infrastructures condition cognition and agency. By staging both hyper-learning and the unlearning induced by machine-supported cognition, the work critiques institutional gatekeeping while revealing how platforms reshape expertise, memory, and spatial experience. This project invites viewers to reconsider how urban space becomes pedagogical infrastructure in a posthumanism era.
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@article{arxiv.2603.14810,
title = {Hyper-learning and Unlearning: A Narrative Speculation on Urbanism in Media Ecologies},
author = {Anqi Wang and Yue Hua and Xinyue Zhang and Jindi Jia and Corneel Cannaerts and Michiel Helbig and Pan Hui},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.14810},
year = {2026}
}