An Urban Fiction for Two Peoples: Sedentism and Nomadism, Desmond Ho Cheung Lee
Inhalt
An Urban Fiction for Two Peoples is a theoretical work in the form of a story book that combines architecture theory, sociology, philosophy, and psychology; storytelling is the binding agent.
This book tells a story about the dichotomy of Sedentism and Nomadism (illustrated by a narrative text and artistic/architectural representations), and aims at providing a playful critique on how spatial and thus, social mobility shapes the world on an individual level (psychology), sociological level (living-patterns), and on an environmental level (territories).
This is in fact a very simple story:
The Nomadic aims at acceleration, the Sedentary does not understand; the Sedentary strives for accumulation, the nomads cannot comprehend. One expands horizontally while the other extends vertically.
Caption for Landscape Drawing:
Areas marked in white and red were once carbon-intensive municipalities, now being cleared to make way for the construction of the nomadic infrastructures. The evacuated population is relocated into the New Sedentary Towers.
Marked in Blue, the nomadic transport grid sprawls across all visible surfaces in the above landscape. Consisting of single rotating stations/ nodes, tracks are formed instantaneously between two nodes on the nomadic grid; the more connectible nodes next to each other there are, the faster the transport within the nomadic grid it gets. In order to gain speed, the nomadic network/ grid is in constant expansion, wiping out all existing urban artifacts that were standing in the way.