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Fig. 11.6 Song Yang ‘Coⁿ-city’. Co-living + Co-working + Co-farming + Co-shopping+ Co-sport = Connectionⁿ = Coⁿ-city’. Co-co-city is a new city that provides residents more co-operation to foster social interactions. It combines co-living, co-working, co-farming, co-sport, etc, and it gives residents a shared public space to perform various cooperations. Fig. 11.7 Ipsita Mondal ‘Water Cities’ 2200’. The project looks at the possibility of setting up a new city in the water. The aim of the design is not to just mimic the patterning, but to overlay the principles of self-organisation (as seen in bubbles) in our complex urban system and instigate an urban metabolism. Fig. 11.8 Selvia Novita ‘The (dis) appearing City’. Set in the near future, the project proposes to inhabit London’s protected metropolitan greenbelt. The intent
of the project is to create an architecture that will always be 100% green, 100% recyclable and most of all 100% inhabitable. Fig. 11.9 Ben Webb ‘DIY Garden City’. The issue of housing is more than a question of bricks and mortar; it’s a question of how we choose to organise ourselves as a society. With the state in retreat, and volume housebuilders generating a failed form of urbanism, compounding housing inequality, a third sector must emerge in response. We must do it ourselves. The DIY Garden City seeks through strategic design to construct a richer performance of inhabitation and activecitizenship to reinvigorate the built environment, recasting the designer as enabler, collaborator, and advocate towards realising the full potential of citizen agency in the production of the city.
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