CONNECTED URBIS I E13 RUNNER-UP
Europan 13
Gera, Deutschland
One of the aspect of the digital world could be the transformation of the understanding of collective phenomena by increasing the visibility and the aggregation of singular collective events. Through it, individuals with their specific needs and requirement are not an exchangeable entity as for a society of mass production, on the contrary, each member is irreplaceable. On the concept of crowdsourcing model such as Wikipedia, urban institution could develop some district of the city as a space of participation and experimentation. This district for our example will be a void of 300 m by 100m at the heart of the city of Gera.
Through a less rigorously determination of spatial planning. The fundamental notion of urbanism and architecture as a technology of limits, could help to create a readable continuous, porous and structuring common space as an open platform. A space where the uses of digital network could amplify the links between individuals and could invite them to participate in a strategy of co-production of the urban environment.
This project attempts to develop an urban protocol as a hybridization of basic urban / architectural tools with digital interface tool. This protocol develop uses of the digital network that make the potential of territories visible by redistribution of connection possibilities among actors within the networks of the mass production economical paradigm. This is just one possibility illustrated through the project, because of the infinite reorganization of items that compose the possible urban scenarios that will become an opportunity to promote participation of urban users in order to reintegrate them actively in the decision-making on territorial development.
In opposition to the principle of the polarizing archipelago, in the global economy, it is possible to apply a principle of balance and of isotropic distribution, and rethinking an organization of the proximity, on the basis of continuous individual interpretation of one some collective structure, in opposition to the modern city who try to give collective interpretation of individual requirements.
