Another Utopia
Date: April 19th Saturday 13:00 - 15:00
Venue: Tokyo Opera City, B1 Recital Hall
Panelists: ISOZAKI
Arata, ASADA
Akira, NAKAMURA Yujiro
Moderator: NAKAMURA
Keiji
Modern society has advanced by the fundamental principles of monolithic
universality, linear progress, and vertical hierarchy. Utopia is nothing
but its logical point of arrival. Following the master narrative of
modern society's grounding laws, we have been progressively trying
to approach the image of the future.
However, recently people have begun to express serious doubts concerning
the nature of those foundational structures. We might say that urban
design's mission of planning is bringing about its own self-contradiction.
This is especially true in today's intellectual climate of post-modern
critique which insists that all fixed grounds are untenable. The modernist
vision of utopia has been dead for some thirty years and in its wake,
alternative Utopias will be born.
These utopian visions will develop auto-poetically and require multiple
modes of interactivity and urban imagination whose elements should
be understood as undecidable, contingent and aleatory.
"The Mirage City - Another Utopia" by Arata ISOZAKI will
serve as an experimental model for imaginative conceptualization of
a Utopian City for the 21st century - the new age of informatics.
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