Thursday 25 November 2010

Design for a Post-Neo Liberal City



Particularly relevant to the APT landscape of Korea.....


From being strategic sites for the implementation of neoliberal policy, cities may possibly become a new political arena for experiments in democracy—and thus require a new design. Designers continue to hold back with criticism and proposals, but the time has come to redefine the role of design in a social city—and to take action. Design in the context of cities could redefine itself as a search for an alternative urban practice, beyond the techniques and the ideology of crisis-ridden, late-capitalist urbanism
Jesko Fezer

see *-* full article -------> http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/153

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