Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 750 g
ISBN: 978-3-900265-19-9
Verlag: IVA-ICRA ein Imprint von new academic press
The book summarizes the results of the project 2050 – CULTURES OF LIVING-Future Models of Living Spaces for Europe and India
Given the rapid social changes taking place globally, most conventional models of living spaces seem outmoded. Until the 20th century, building proceeded on the assumption that inhabitants, structured in families, would often live and work in one and the same place for an entire lifetime. Yet current upheavals in the demographic structure (birth rate, life expectancy, migration etc.), in the working world, and in social relations (especially the changing role of women) create new ways of habitation, which result in changing housing needs and require new forms and cultures of living. It is still unclear, however, what future living cultures in a globalised 21st century will look like, and how they will operate. How can architecture, design, the applied arts and urbanism contribute to contemporary and humane living? And in what ways do new cultures of living influence the city and regionally specific city cultures?
These core questions are the point of departure for the planned interdisciplinary project (architecture, interior design, town planning), which seeks to provide first answers to and visions for this global challenge through transcultural analysis and reflection on European and Indian living styles. Deliberately, therefore, experts and artists from Europe as well as the (culturally and socio-economically equally heterogeneous) Indian subcontinent are earmarked for the project; especially as by now the significant parameters of the subject matter have global relevance: poverty can today (albeit on a different level) also be found in (Eastern) Europe, and suburbanisation has become an issue also in India.
Specifically, the following topics (among others) are to be covered:
• to what extent can the traditional living cultures of Europe and India be transformed to satisfy contemporary needs?
• which future-proof forms of living do European and Indian cities, with their often centuries-old character, allow?
• what demands do new, especially ‘mobile’ living cultures make on interior design?
• through which architectural and economical approaches can new forms of dwelling be developed for the most deprived sections of society?
• to what extent can ecological architecture and eco-design provide solutions to today’s requirements
(environmentalism, air conditioning etc.)?
• which attributes (naturalness, neighbourliness, affordability) will be indicatory for future models of living spaces?
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ln 2008, when I began work on the project "2050 - CULTURES OF LIVING", I could hardly have imagined the wide range of results arising from the planned activities. Some of these are briefly described here and will also serve as examples within the book. In several creative workshops in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) supervised by Indian and European artists, pupils from several schools, street children and children with special needs considered their ideas of a "dream home" and of living in the future, and tried to express their thoughts through creative means (drawings, models, collages etc) Using disposable cameras, interested residents from all across Austria, from all age groups, a diverse range of social classes, professions and life situations took photographs of places with which they associate "being at home". In various exhibitions, the resulting selection of 80 photographs provides a very personal insight into Austrian lifestyles and living cultures In photography workshops, Indian students, under the supervision of European photographers, examined the topics "motion", "typology" and "living space" - interrelations between urban space, home and living space - as well as the street as a living space, and tried to reflect these ideas through the medium of photography. During their work on the project students (under their tutors' supervision) at Austrian, German and Italian universities produced videos and drawings of the "European" city and living culture, presented these in exhibitions, and further occupied themselves with various tasks relating to the project in Mumbai, both during and after their sojourns in India. In addition to these activities, the tutors prepared lectures which were presented together with those of their Indian colleagues, the resulting publications are also included in this book Today, almost two years after the start of the project I am very proud of its progress and results. Everyone involved tried to give their very best - a little complication here or misunderstanding there is as integral to such an intercultural project as salt is to food, continuously offering fresh challenges and opportunities to learn.I hope you will the contributions in this book stimulating, the project website www.trans-urban net/2050/home.htm gives an additional overview of everything that took place. Finally I would like to thank all project participants, particularMallika Sarabhai (Darpana, Ahmedabad) without whose active support the project would not have been possible in its current form.Nariman MansouriProject co-ordinator
