Project Global: Ground


This exploration of our current day metropolitan condition as a system of systems deals with the crust of the Earth as a primary carrying capacitor of human activities, from the extraction of resources deep within the ground, to agricultural operations that barely scratch the surface.

Part 1: Lexicon

Part 2: Atlas

Part 3: Architectural Projects


Part 3: Architectural Projects index

︎ By means of introduction...
    ︎ Parliament of Things
    ︎ Cemetery 36
    ︎ Institute of Mining Safety
    ︎ Post Thinkbelt   


︎ Extrapolated Realities     ︎ Co-Op Backyarding
    ︎ Informal Urban Farmers Market
    ︎ The Eviction Economy
    ︎ ASHES Base


︎ Symbiotic Infrastructure
    ︎ Stormwater Parks
    ︎ Agri-Course
    ︎ Dead & Alive

︎ Remediated Lands
    ︎ Anti-dust Landscape
    ︎ Soil & Green
    ︎ Rebound Landscape
    ︎ Nature’s Lung

︎ New Forms of Settlements
    ︎ Trickle-down Water Works
    ︎ Recycling Center    
    ︎ A.R.C.CA.DI.A
    ︎ Growing Roots

︎ Extraction Reaction

    ︎ Tailing Urbanism
    ︎ Lavoisier’s Law
    ︎ A New Energy Landscape
    ︎ Cake Town

The Eviction Economy

           
 

Red Ants HQ

11 Diagonal Street, Johannesburg


The prominence of businesses’ influence on Johannesburg has been exacerbated by the proliferation of City Improvement Districts (CIDs). These are local variations of the Anglo-American Business Improvement Districts (BIDs)which are drivers of entrepreneurial urbanism and the privatization of public space CID districts are criticized for further fragmenting an already unequal and divided city . Their use of privatized cleaning, maintenance and security services entrenches differential access to resources and amenities and makes the disparities between areas which are controlled by private interests and those which have not attracted investment even more stark.

Tutors 

Sanne van den Breemer
Filip Geerts
Ilmar Hurkxkens
Director of Studies

Salomon Frausto

Contributors

Nigel Alarcon(MX), Pooja Bhave(IN), Mariano Cuofano(IT), Fabiola Cruz(PE), Alonso Díaz(MX), Xiaoyu Ding(CN), Ines Garcia‑Lezana(ES), Sandra Garcia(ES), Martino Greco(IT), Sebastian Hitchcock(ZA), Alejandra Huesca(MX), Yesah Hwangbo(KR), Takuma Johnson(US), Yi-Ni Lin(TW), Paola Tovar(MX), Cristhy Mattos(BR), Preradon Pimpakan(TH), Adi Samet(IL), Raymond Tang(US), Kulaporn Temudom(TH), Danai Tsigkanou(GR), Jesse Verdoes(NL), Rongting Xiao(CN)