Idea by
Karolina Cialkaite and Ollie George
Call for ideas 2019
Twin Towns, are you close?
Twin Towns, are you close?
- New alliances
The arrangement and use of our environment is the result of countless political and societal (in)actions. Artificially enforced, the arranged partnership of Twin Towns, or Sister Cities, characterize spatial practice as something that is governed by urbanization, ideology, and geopolitics – our current thinking processes are binary, ignoring contingency in praise instead for sameness and likability when building our livable spaces.
Set in a national myth, the potentiality of a new Twin Town is outlined, not as retroactive partnership, an augmented afterthought which proceeds circumstantial bordering and geographic relation, but instead in a politics of love and geography, the city as the central protagonist. In the dismissal of oracles, a scripted conversation becomes written notation for a spatial practice that is concerned with the body, but also the Other. How do we resonate with each other without needing to be the same? How do we do this in a world concerned with the global?
Twin Towns, are you close?
Twin Towns, are you close?
- New alliances
The arrangement and use of our environment is the result of countless political and societal (in)actions. Artificially enforced, the arranged partnership of Twin Towns, or Sister Cities, characterize spatial practice as something that is governed by urbanization, ideology, and geopolitics – our current thinking processes are binary, ignoring contingency in praise instead for sameness and likability when building our livable spaces.
Set in a national myth, the potentiality of a new Twin Town is outlined, not as retroactive partnership, an augmented afterthought which proceeds circumstantial bordering and geographic relation, but instead in a politics of love and geography, the city as the central protagonist. In the dismissal of oracles, a scripted conversation becomes written notation for a spatial practice that is concerned with the body, but also the Other. How do we resonate with each other without needing to be the same? How do we do this in a world concerned with the global?