POST+CAPITALIST CITY #3 LIVE

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As a part of the cycle of competition POST+CAPITALIST CITY, the third opus is now open. This time, we invite you to think the way we LIVE.

Collage Competitions is a cycle of competitions for prospective thinking in terms of urban planning, architecture, political, social and economical spaces in a global scale.

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

LIVE
[be, inhabit, subsist, experience]

«Man’s relation to locations, and through locations to spaces, inheres in his dwelling. The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.» ~ Martin Heidegger, Building Dwelling Thinking 1951

(…) Could we think about an alternative society in which we could perceive space as part of a four-dimensional system in which the inhabitants, the use and the occupation can alter in time? If consuming were not the main motto anymore, if production and distribution would be reduced to the satisfaction of our global basic needs, wouldn’t we have more free time to live? Where would personal creativity and action find its place? How could a post+capitalist society affect our daily lives and the way we envision housing? Would we still own and if yes, what would we own? Compulsory, the heritage to our kids would be a different one. Assuming that our cities can provide “everything we need”, how could an after crisis scenario look like? (…)

… more info on: www.collagelab.org

Launching date: 15th of October 2012
Questions Deadline: 15th of November 2012
Early Birds Registration Deadline: 1st of December 2012
Submission Dead Line: 15th of January 2013, 23:59 pm, European time (CET)
Results announced: 15th of February 2013

Early Bird fee (until 01.12.2012): 30 € / submission
Fee (after 01.12.2012): 50 € / submission