- Systemic changes
Promise of the Future is a speculative narrative based on basic income and the effects of labour automation and the question of how we can shape the transformation towards a post-labour society conceptually and spatially.
How can we overcome the common understanding of being productive and useful and concentrate on our creative and social potential? How can we shift from mass production to play?
At the Danube Canal, in Vienna, an urban field is becoming common ground.
The office towers along the river became obsolete through the process of automation and are becoming the new centres to explore different rhythms and functions [Tower of Doing Nothing; Center of Unlearning; Trial and Error; Play and Aggression]. The river and the built structures [the Island; the Bridge; the Stairs] serve as connecting elements.
The project develops architectural structures, which support, generate and accelerate the vision of a possible different future of labour and its perception in society.
An urban landscape develops towards a public zone of experimenting on our social and creative potentials. It is changing every time one goes there. One wander through and is always confronted with new conditions: destroys and rebuilds, moves and seeks for new experiences.
[The Center of Unlearning] is for relearning and unlearning trained behaviour and thinking patterns about time and rhythm.
[The Bridge] is a connection between the Center of Unlearning and the Tower for Trial and Error.
An in the air folded open space. A mixture of a connection, transition and piazza. Platforms thread themselves on the columns, which rise high in the sky.
[The Tower of Doing Nothing] is for increasing the acceptance for idleness and creating a counterpart to the sanctity of labour in our society.
[The Island] moveable platforms, stairs, escalators, elevators and pipes are playground and the entry to the Tower of Doing Nothing.
