WHAT NOW? BUILDING A NEW JERUSALEM SAM JACOB & WOUTER VANSTIPHOUT

摘要

The theme of the 2014 british Pavilion at the biennale, A Clockwork Jerusalem, describes how the most spectacular transformations of British cities and communities were not down to design innovation or technology, but to extraordinary leaps of the imagination which combined unique hybrids of idealised pasts and speculative futures. Each leap of the imagination was provoked by a serious crisis in the condition of British cities and communities. Once again, British cities and regions are facing crises: affordable housing, inequality and social tensions. In response, it's not enough to simply regurgitate terms and imagery from the past century, as recent debate seems to suggest. We need a more fundamental rethink about the future of Britain's built environment.