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.

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