Pubished by dpr-barcelona in Autumn 2018 and online at archifutures.futurearchitectureplatform.org.
“We live in challenging times. There is no denying that portents pertaining to the “end of the world” are writ large all around. Yet despite the implied drama of “apocalypse”, the reality is actually far more mundane and surviving it is not about building bunkers, it is about building resilience.”
With essays, interviews and projects by young practitioners and experts alike, Volume 5 of the Archifutures series for the Future Architecture platform deconstructs and remoulds the notion of “apocalypse”; to neutralise its drama and to reconsider what it means to live in an age of revelation. What are the futures that these young practitioners aim to reveal? What are the new prototypical mechanisms of resilience and survival under construction as we speak? How will they manifest themselves in the built environment?
Contributors include: Bora Baboci, Maite Borjabad, Eduardo Cassina, Trajna Collective, DOMA, Liva Dudareva, Stefan Gruber, Jason Hilgefort, METASITU, Anh-Linh Ngo, Phi, RESOLVE, Skrei, Anastassia Smirnova, Space Transcribers, TAB Collective, Tania Tovar Torres, Stephan Trüby, the Unfolding Pavilion team and many more.
Editors: George Kafka, Sophie Lovell and Fiona Shipwright, &beyond
Graphic design: Diana Portela, &beyond
Additional illustrations: Janar Siniloo, &beyond
Publisher: dpr-barcelona
Date: Autumn 2018
http://www.dpr-barcelona.com/index.php?/ongoing/apocalypse/
Archifutures is publication series accompanying the Future Architecture platform
Articles and features from the all volumes in the series can also be read online at www.archifutures.org
George Kafka 