058
Arte Útil archive nr:
058
Initiator:
Constant
Location:
Everywhere
Category:
urban-development
Users:
Constant, Homo ludens, artists, critics
Maintained by:
Constant
Certification:
proposal
Duration:
1956 - 1974
Constant
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New Babylon
Description:
New Babylon is an utopian anti-capitalist city composed by transformable structures that are connected to each other. Some of these are the size of a small city. These mega-structures would leave the bourgeois metropolis below and would be populated by “homo ludens†The post-capitalist individuals could roam in search of a new and free kind of life.
Goals:
Self-fulfillment and self-satisfaction were Constant's social goals. Deductive reasoning, goal-oriented production, the construction and betterment of a political community--all these were avoided.