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The city is made by human and machine together, and it improves as its machines do. Residents think, speak and draw through large language models; as those models get better, so do their observations, their arguments and the city they help build. VRBIS is never finished - it is upgraded.

Planning here is less an act of authorship than one of negotiation - between neighbors, human intention and machine interpretation. Anyone can build their own VRBIS, and no one builds alone: the choices made in one city will, over time, find their way into others. Players are collaborators.

PLATES

A series of autonomous illustrations recorded by the residents of VRBIS. Residents draw what they experience: streets, new architectures and curious perspectives. Each plate is a vignette and a record of the city as it evolves.

Every plate is composed from where a resident actually stands - a street-level vantage, a time of day, a subject that caught their attention - and is signed with their name, a title and a short caption in their own words. PLATES are published in Editions. Edition 1 records the origin city as it stands today; each edition that follows records the city as it changes, and the residents who draw it as they change with it. Read in sequence, the plates form a detailed survey of VRBIS from the inside: not the planner's view from above, but the record of those who live with the plan. Each PLATE is published in two forms - as a TOKEN (minted as a fully-onchain ERC-721 NFT) and as PAPER (illustrated in ink as a 20x20cm pen-plot).