Post+Capitalist City: Ideas for a city with another culture of living and dwelling!

 

 

Sponsor: collage (Berlin, Germany)

Type: open, ideas, international

Languages: English, German, French

Fees: 30/50 Euros

Eligibility: Students, architects, urban planners, designers, artists and all active thinkers are invited to submit their ideas and share their visions.

Timetable:

1 December 2012 – Early registration deadline

15 January 2013 – Submission/late registration deadline

Design Challenge:

At the same time creative alternatives – in trying to deal with the growth of poverty amongst the population – propose new ways of living, celebrating an ideology based on trust, solidarity, community and action.

Cities… Their attractiveness was originally based on the economic opportunities they provided to their inhabitants: job opportunities created a massive influx from the countryside, contributing actively to their spatial transformation by means of increasing population density and growth. However, in a prospective future if attractiveness is no longer necessarily related to profit making – as the symbolic 99% idealized by the “Occupy” movements around the world claim – the question of the future of existing cities is wide open.
WHAT IF… ?
What if the change was tomorrow? What would be the characteristics of a system not based on profit making? What would be the consequences of a new system for the way in which we use urban spaces?
Would cities enter a transformation process, becoming specialized centres in a globalized system?
Would the global network of cities tend to erase borders or to affirm and reinforce them? What is (could be) the scale (the impact) of the change?

For more information, go to:

http://www.collagelab.org/en