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Urban Dwellers Pavilion
Urban Dwellers Pavilion
The concept for the Urban Dwellers pavilion was contributed by the agency of the Dutch designer Herman Kossmann. The residents of modern cities are the focus of this exhibition. According to Kossmann, its guiding principle is the awareness that city planners have to address the urgent needs of their residents as “the prerequisite for the city’s sustainable development.”
In the Urban Dwellers pavilion, video clips narrate the exemplary stories of six real families. The continents are represented by their home cities of Paris (Europe), São Paulo (Latin America), Phoenix, Arizona (North America), Lijiang, Yunnan (Asia), Melbourne (Oceania), and Ouagadougou (Africa). The circumstances of life of the six families are presented in five chapters concentrating on the issues of home, work, relationship, education, and health.
Send this picture as an ecard ‘Residential Area’; thousands of milk cartons together form the organised suburbs (Thijs Wolzak)
Send this picture as an ecard 3D pictures are displayed creating an effect in which visitors feel as if they are looking through a window into the lives of different families (blog.ritztours.com)
Send this picture as an ecard Everything in the City of Diversity is made using found and repurposed materials. (Photos courtesy of Thijs Wolzak)
Send this picture as an ecard In the “Work” zone, a rotating machine with six screens displays the families’ work lives. (Photos courtesy of Thijs Wolzak)
Send this picture as an ecard The six families´ homes are reproduced in the “Home” section inside small rooms behind gauze curtains. Films about them are projected on the gauze, alternating with macro-economic data about the cities they live in. (Photos courtesy of Thijs Wolzak)
Send this picture as an ecard Visitors meet the six families they will follow through five themed sections (Home, Work, Connected, Learn, and Health) in the City of Diversity. Represented by wax figurines, the families are based on half a dozen real households from six cities on six different continents. (Photos courtesy of Thijs Wolzak)
Send this picture as an ecard The residential area in the City of Diversity is constructed from countless repurposed plastic crates. (Photos courtesy of Thijs Wolzak)
Send this picture as an ecard A panoramic video projected on a white curtain hanging from the ceiling in the “Health” zone shows what the families eat, if they exercise, and how their health care is arranged. (Photos courtesy of Thijs Wolzak)
Send this picture as an ecard A clean, watery world with a forest ceiling shows the healthy lives of the families in the “Health” zone. (Photos courtesy of Thijs Wolzak)
Send this picture as an ecard The “Learn” zone comprises a huge, surrealistic looking library that depicts the families in their schools and other learning and cultural institutions. (Photos courtesy of Thijs Wolzak)
Send this picture as an ecard In the “Connected” zone, a dome projection portrays the families’ social networks as a constellation of connections. (Photos courtesy of Thijs Wolzak)
Originally posted 2010-06-25 17:44:56.
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