Post Mortem Dystopias

Post Mortem Dystopias

Papasimakis, Konstantinos (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Schoonderbeek, Marc (mentor)
Jennen, Pierre (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

2019-03-12

''Post mortem Dystopias'' focuses on the post human condition in the periphery of the City, following the growing trends of automation. In this project, dystopia is understood as subjective term defined every time by place, time, subject and its conditions. It concerns a non linear narration of a possible future history of Chitila, Bucharest, which results in a collection of various architectural intentions and approaches not always in coherence but organised by learning from the periphery that surrounds them. ''Post mortem Dystopias'' places itself in the tradition of literary dystopias as a full dystopia. Therefore, it does not contain an agent that upon activation will create an avalanche that will eventually lead to its subversion. It is a dystopia without escape and with no consciousness of being in it.

dystopia
periphery
post-human
Bucharest, Romania
machine
automation
corrupted grid
literary dystopia

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Student theses

master thesis

© 2019 Konstantinos Papasimakis