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Andra Bria, Eric Wycoff Rogers

Bucharest, Romania
Andra Bria is a product designer, writer and social entrepreneur, working at the intersection of art, design, business and social science. She has a MA in Equality Policies and is the founder of Craft Product School, Romania’s first product design school. She is interested in human centered economics, with an emphasis on justice, equality, welfare and self sufficiency. Eric Wycoff Rogers is a scholar, organizer, designer and artist, currently a PhD student in American history at Cambridge.

Call for ideas 2021

The Post-Work City Visions


A call for arts to imagine how the city would look like, in a world where we don't have to work to sustain ourselves

The Post-Work City Visions


A call for arts to imagine how the city would look like, in a world where we don't have to work to sustain ourselves
The Post-Work City Visions (https://postwork.city/) is a call for arts that encourages people to imagine what cities could be like in a world where all undesirable work is done by robots, and humans are freed to pursue their passions, interests and pleasures full-time.
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  • Systemic changes

The prospect of a post-work city demands a total rethinking of the existing spatial organization of society, since contemporary cities are designed with one particular universal in mind: the pervasiveness of work. Work has not only dominated our political imaginaries (from “right to work” policies, to political platforms of “job creation”, economic security has tended to be unquestioningly tied to employment), but also the very landscapes in which we live our lives.
The Post-Work City (https://postwork.city/) is a daring call for arts which aims to gather artistic submission in the form of architectural designs that can offer new visions of how cities of the future might look like, in a reality dominated by artificial intelligence and robotics. Connecting post-work politics to urban design is an important issue to be discussing today, especially in the pandemic context, which has caused many of us to wake up to the fact that the ideology of perpetual work is itself inherently flawed.

The Post-Work City Visions


A call for arts to imagine how the city would look like, in a world where we don't have to work to sustain ourselves

The Post-Work City Visions


A call for arts to imagine how the city would look like, in a world where we don't have to work to sustain ourselves
The Post-Work City Visions (https://postwork.city/) is a call for arts that encourages people to imagine what cities could be like in a world where all undesirable work is done by robots, and humans are freed to pursue their passions, interests and pleasures full-time.
File under
Type of project
  • Systemic changes

The prospect of a post-work city demands a total rethinking of the existing spatial organization of society, since contemporary cities are designed with one particular universal in mind: the pervasiveness of work. Work has not only dominated our political imaginaries (from “right to work” policies, to political platforms of “job creation”, economic security has tended to be unquestioningly tied to employment), but also the very landscapes in which we live our lives.
The Post-Work City (https://postwork.city/) is a daring call for arts which aims to gather artistic submission in the form of architectural designs that can offer new visions of how cities of the future might look like, in a reality dominated by artificial intelligence and robotics. Connecting post-work politics to urban design is an important issue to be discussing today, especially in the pandemic context, which has caused many of us to wake up to the fact that the ideology of perpetual work is itself inherently flawed.

Idea by

Andra Bria, Eric Wycoff Rogers
Bucharest
Romania
Andra Bria is a product designer, writer and social entrepreneur, working at the intersection of art, design, business and social science. She has a MA in Equality Policies and is the founder of Craft Product School, Romania’s first product design school. She is interested in human centered economics, with an emphasis on justice, equality, welfare and self sufficiency. Eric Wycoff Rogers is a scholar, organizer, designer and artist, currently a PhD student in American history at Cambridge.
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