CTRMX — Probing the Future of Automated Construction
CTRMX is a speculative workshop exploring how, in a context of urgent environmental adaptation, urban landscapes can be backed up, restored and updated in new, safer locations using AI-driven relocation systems and robotic construction. Following a shared immersion in the fiction of Mexico City's new 3D printed neighbourhoods, participants are invited to inhabit different roles—engineering, policy, usage, commerce, etc.—to explore how automated construction reshapes governance and everyday life, sparking new challenges in the process. Through role-play, performative enactment, and reactive prompts, the workshop surfaces new products, policies, rituals, and tensions emerging from large-scale automation.
Tutor
Régis Lemberthe (N O R M A L S, Berlin, Germany)
An expert in participatory design and collective future exploration, Régis facilitates complex, ambivalent scenarios to reveal social, political, and ethical tensions in emerging urban and technological systems. He brings expertise in industrial design, scenario development, and workshop moderation to guide debate and reflection. Régis is part of Berlin-based design-fiction studio N O R M A L S, which crafts speculative artefacts, immersive prototypes, and complex worldbuilding exercises to probe blind spots in technology, governance, and society. Their work with SPACE10, the European Commission Policy Lab, Evonik, and the German ministry of research & education has translated ambitious futures into actionable and reflective experiences.