International Competition POST+CAPITALIST CITY

Results of the competition 1st prize Workshop - Shop we share KuanHao Chen, JuiHsuan Hou, Fa Likitswat - Taiwan / Thailand What we can share in WORKSHOP? Sharing happiness, knowledge, based-resource, tools, time, and etc. in non-profit business model is how to build up this program. WORKSHOP takes advantages of capitalism and communism economics providing people equality chances in the game. This is a kind of shop that you can be both buyer and producer at the same time. It encourages people to shop for just what they really need, work with their creativity, interact with each others, and enjoy the simplicity of life. WORKSHOP program highly engages with the community dynamic and locally used-material. The new model of shop provides flexible opportunity for various types of businesses in different scales. 2nd prize Prototyping Transformation Peter Salim - Indonesia The capitalist assumption that we have unlimited wants needs a new interpretation other than unlimited consumption. With the rampant rise of shopping malls in Jakarta, consumption is being encouraged more and more every year. I propose a change, a 4 phased transformation process that will lead us from the death of the shopping mall to the rise of a new public space. This new public space will replace the consumerist shopping mall with non-consumerist stations that promotes public engagement and sharing, and also provide opportunities for social interaction outside of the shopping mall (which has become THE sole venue for public interaction in this city). The 4 phases are: purge, procession, prototype, and progress. Through this transformation, we will enter an era of sustainable consumption, one that is guided by a principle of controlled freedom; freedom that is sustainable, and control that is flexible. Special Mention CAL - The City Assembly Line An attempt to increase social awareness Susanne Trumpf, Judith Frankenberg - Germany The image of the “assembly line” is a typical symbol of modernism: mass production for mass consumption. By altering its primary function, mass production, into individual experience, knowledge gain and selected consumption, we change its meaning and shift its usability to post-capitalist society. The “City Assembly Line” or CAL is a radial, interconnecting network within the existing urban fabric, including the urban, suburban and rural scale. This urban fabric is used to develop new typologies based on the single steps of production. The CAL shuttle, a transport system connected to the CAL, transports goods, products, waste (as raw material) and people and their knowledge in all directions passing all metabolic cycles of production and consumption. Everybody is invited to share knowledge and take part in any step of the production. CAL provides hydraulic product elevators as overall infrastructural support. In dense urban environments, a new typology of small scale pavilions with storage space on top, directly connected to the CAL shuttle, emerges. CAL’s unfinished, open state supports innovation: nodes can develop at any point of the assembly line, at intersections or in plain country. In the last centuries we have discovered the advantages of global exchange of goods, but what if we would take a step back and see what we really need? Show us your ideas to re-think the shop, the way we consume and a city with another system of shopping culture. Everything is valuable from small interventions up to global concepts. SHOP [Get, acquire, need, satisfy] „I did not know that there were no tomatoes in winter, until i got into a bio supermarket. The lady explained to me that winter is not a tomato season. I was ashamed to not have known that.“ (customer in Europe) As China’s rise of financial power, we find the nowadays-largest shopping mall there in the city of Dongguan. As everywhere in the world, the huge big box contains no windows, no connection between inside and outside, but a thousands of offers and promises for a better life. The whole family can spend their free time inside without a notion of time. Each family member can find his personal pleasure, according to the size of the wallet. But the rise of the mall seems to be more or less finished in the western world. With the notion of sustainability and the growing precarity in all parts of society people start to begin to search for alternatives and local food markets return to be pleasurable events. With the increasing demand for regional goods we start questioning also the origin of our products; how does the food chains work globally, what are the carbon footprints of our products? Not to forget our questions relating to the development of genetically modified food. The cry for attention of individual products grew according to the quantity of the markets. Visually we start being unaware of what is advertisement and what is information. Product certificates make it even harder to know if they represent a common interest or if it does not come from the producer itself. Before we become blind from visual stimulation and things we don’t “need”, we ask ourselves: Can we find new ways of getting to know products and use them? Obviously advertisement and mass-consumption are children of the capitalist system. But are there other ways to produce and consume than the way we are used to now? In the last centuries we have discovered the advantages of global exchange of goods, but what if we would take a step back and see what we really need: What is it we really need? What could be the concepts for new alternatives? Does our foodculture has to be inevitable linked to consumer culture? Do we necessarily still need to have everything at every time? And finally: What are the possibilities for our cities? Apart from the “urban gardening”, what could be transformed spatially to change towards a conscious behaviour of shopping and consumption culture?