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The world has to take action to prevent ecological collapse by decelerating those accelerating their lives in the direction of colonizing themselves in a ‘One world’ world due to the acceleration of improvement. The goal is to create an architectural device that discovers the infrastructure of the accelerating contemporary world: the city’s contact zone, and reverses or utilizes its logic. This tool questions the seemingly singular direction of the ‘One world’ world and fragments the unified single flow.
Far from hidden, infrastructure is the overt point of contact and access between us all—the rules governing the space of everyday life. Infrastructure is not the urban substructure, but the structure itself - the very parameters of global urbanism.
The process begins by planting the seeds of self-destructive change in the operating system of the proposed city without question. It resists the flow by introducing an architectural alien species with opposing tendencies into an environment dominated by capitalist logic.