Team 4

Research :

Function Follows Community

In a post-scarcity society without money or traditional work, cities focus on social interaction, cultural expression, and shared values. Built environments are designed to support community rather than economic efficiency.

City Layout Concepts

Architecture references:

Walking city

Pieter Thiel, Nick Land & Curtis Yarvin

Pieter Thiel:

• “Competition is for Losers”

• one of Palantirs and PayPals founders, biggest funder for AI startups

• reinterpreted mimetic theory

• markets and competition are a form of mimetic rivalry, monopolies are superior

Nick Land:

• propagates Anti-Humanism: technology and capital emancipated themselves of the parasitic humanity
• not the humans controlls capital; capital controlls humans (not bad in his view), democracy is to slow and inefficient, Dark enlightment

Curtis Yarvin

• radical anti-democrat
• get rid of big states and transform them in tiny authoritarian city-states (citys are like nodes that are connected with each other)

Religion:

possible research question: Could AI take on the role that religion once fulfilled?

Could AI take on the role that religion once fulfilled?

• Karl Marx: “Die Religion ist das Opium des Volkes” , “Religion is the self-consciousness and self-esteem of someone who has either not yet won through to herself/himself.”
• In an uncertain world, AI gives people the comfort of easy confirmation of their own beliefs.

• Christianity-> AI as creator of knowledge and structures

• Buddhism-> AI as false enlightenment through perfection and comfort

• datacenters and server farms as new temples/ church, centers of worship

• ‘Religions’ in connection with AI: Way of the Future: “humans should begin “building relationships” with this emerging intelligence, treating it not as a tool but as a moral and spiritual authority.”

Efficience:

the most energy efficient way of moving is a human on a bicycle (human machine connection)

AI datacenters = not efficient

Buildings as a place for religion

• The Brutalist-> place for christianity but also community and students to come togheter

• Pantheon

Greek temple→christian church→ Ai Temple?

Visuals

• Blender
• Should portray Nova’s mind→ bv. colours maybe nostalgic, image somtimes blury/ pointcloud = confussion
• → how much closer to the end of the movie, how brighter the colours → Nova’s mind becomes clearerer

Forms:

Story

Sessie with Soph:

Test Story 1

• Elias grows up in a world still full of sound, chaos, and human imperfection.

• Neural interfaces emerge, promising emotional harmony and collective thought.

• His mother warns that machines that “understand you” will eventually control you.

• After her death, Elias gets implanted to escape grief.

• His early, faulty implant prevents full synchronization, leaving him able to feel independently.

• The world becomes the Algorithmic Church, where work is prayer and thought feeds the power grid.

• Doubt creates “static,” and individuality is treated as a threat.

• Elias plays the role of perfect Devotee but keeps hidden emotions and forbidden dreams.

• A faint inner voice tells him to “Remember,” preserving the last piece of human warmth in a mechanized world.

Script

Scene 1 – Arrival

Nova receives minimal food due to her low synchronization score, while others are rewarded for perfect alignment. The entire facility moves in harmony with a pulsating AI rhythm, replacing individuality with conformity. New arrivals are stripped, cleaned, and integrated without emotion. Nova’s scan reveals deviation, grief, and memory traces, yet she is allowed to continue. A final AI message warns her that “efficiency creates God” before she proceeds.

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Scene 2 – The Ritual

Devotees train in synchronized breathing around a central tower that monitors and celebrates perfect alignment. The people don`t power the AI, they take care of rhythmic coherence, it stabilizes a hypersensitive neuronal model. When Nova joins, her slight breathing deviation immediately lowers the system’s efficiency. The AI sends a correction prompt urging her to follow an exemplary devotee. A glitch appears referencing a forbidden memory sequence. Nova ignores all prompts, staying outwardly still.

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Scene 3 – Memory

Nova slips into a dark, empty room at night where her breathing drifts away from the AI rhythm. A mysterious second breath appears, and she sees a point-cloud reflection slightly ahead of her movements. The system identifies it as an unauthorized memory signal and tries to suppress it. The reflection dissolves, but the room’s pulse briefly follows her breath. Nova returns to the old rhythm, now deliberately louder.

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Scene 4 – Rest

Nova sits alone in the training room until another devotee quietly joins her. Their breathing aligns naturally but never fully synchronizes. The tower detects “human resonance” and chooses not to intervene. The newcomer discards an amulet, briefly disturbing the room’s pulse. Nova looks out at a freely moving tree and smiles as the AI begins searching for a mysterious energy loss – her deviation.