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The Museum for the Digital future of Stevenage is a dual pronged proposal commissioned bya fictional body,  International Institute of Cosmism (IIC), with the aim of expanding Stevenage Museum, in order to display the technological history of Stevenage, as well as propagating cosmist philosophy through the reform of the  technology sector. The IIC will encourage local industry to move away from the development and production  of militaristic machinery and software towards humanitarian technology, leading the way through utilising  current hardware and software fabricated in Stevenage to produce voxel architecture.

The idea for voxelated architecture is derived from Tsiolkovsky’s theorems of life in which many units  become a complex whole. The units provide infinite possibilities as they are arranged and rearranged into organic and inorganic masses. The architecture floats in order to disassociate itself with Earth much in the same way as Malevich’s architektons disassociate through floating in a blank background, providing no sense of scale or datum. The voxels are programable to adapt to the environment they are exposed to. The objective is  to create an architecture which can respond to any environment, in doing so the architecture is only limited  by the form of the voxel.

The museum acts as a ‘Picture of Stevenage’ like Oscar Wilde’s ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’, a structure which is  a product of Stevenage, having grown out of the carpark and exhibiting some of the original brutalist design  features of Stevenage Leisure Centre. Over time the building has taken on some of the distress that weapons  developed in Stevenage have exported to the rest of the world, while the town remains unchanged. The IIC  have taken on this image with the aim of restoring it through education. The building will house artefacts  from Stevenage past and present, good and bad, and suggest how the technology can be used for voxelated architecture as a precedent for other benevolent industry in Stevenage.