The Gold Mine: A Post-singularity Utopia

Authors

  • Nic Clear Professor of Architecture Dean of School of Art, Design and Architecture University of Huddersfield

Keywords:

Architecture, Utopia, Science Fiction, Cognitive estrangement, Novum, Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno, Collabocracy

Abstract

The Gold Mine is an architectural project for a post-scarcity, post-singularity city set on Canvey Island. The project is intended to test the application of speculative ideas taken from literary science fiction combined with concepts currently being developed in the Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno technologies and framed within the context of a formal architectural project.  The Gold Mine is seen as a speculative architectural design intended to ask ‘what-if’ questions about the nature of our cities and re-ignite debates around the concept of Utopia, proposing a radically different model of the human organisation at a time when neo-liberal ideologies dominate our thinking on the city.

Published

2020-12-30

How to Cite

Clear, N. (2020). The Gold Mine: A Post-singularity Utopia. Architecture Image Studies, 1(2), 54–66. Retrieved from https://ap2online.com/index.php/ais/article/view/29