DESIGNCRACY

Protocol Ten: Designcracy City

There is another city between St. Augustine’s “City of God” and “Earthly City”, which is the “City of Designcracy”.

And our cities? Walls, walls, walls.

Let us have no more walls, no more shutting up body and soul in the barracks, this whole barrack-culture with or without decoration.

What we want is:

Transformation of global space into cities.

Torelease ourselves from the earth, abandonment of the static axis.

No walls, no foundations.

A system of tension in open space.

The provision of new possibilities of living and thereby of requirements that will transform society.

Frederick Kiesler, 1925

A city, like the government, has a close relationship with the society in which it lives with, because the urban form and also architecture is a symbol of the existing economic or political model and social status of that society, and vice versa, since there is a belief that a controlled and rational urban planning has major influence on people and makes certain economic and social relations between citizens which leads to the creation of the citizens’ analogous patterns of individual and citizenship (social) behaviors.

The city is an analogous visual model of the organization of a society who lives in. Utopia (in contemporary literature’s general connotation) is the place of a better, more just and more brotherhood society.

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