The city is not only its material components, but also embodies the human interest in preserving and expressing personal identity. The vocabulary of urban design brings together intangible layers such as time, memory, poetry, art, intentionality, casual encounters within built and unbuilt environments. Controversially, however, the projections of the smart cities and digital projections are based on the most ‘efficient’ models.
From this point of view, Glitch Your Machine offers a digital protest against the creation of inefficient data models for urban algorithms.
The guideline to confuse the surveillance algorithms is prepared as a way to find the most inefficient data production. Because when it comes to creativity and design, collected data should sometimes be useless, funny, clever and misleading, aiming to trigger series of actions to disrupt the understanding and commodity of data collection. Anyone who decides to participate and disrupt their machines accepts to produce inefficient data. They can choose from a list that is only a beginning or create their own actions, be it a 5-second dance party or drawing circles on every corner, and so on.