The City of the Good Neighbors is not a city with common standards. It is built with knowledge. Its buildings and public spaces are books. Books built from other books. The construction of the city is as the construction of a large library. Unlike a conventional city, everything moves constantly here. It changes at the same time as ideas and concepts change. New spaces appear and disappear that reconfigure their own structure. During the workshop, we would like to build the city of the Good Neighbors from scratch by using the concept of Community as a starting point. Buildings and public spaces are going to be made up using the university's library collection as the foundation. This City will be built partly from existing books and largely from the construction of new books. The principle is to allow new guidelines and fresh concepts arise along the way. The organization of each element is fundamental in the construction of knowledge, so we will build a game board that allows us to alter, change, reconfigure and think as many times as possible. The construction of the city of the good neighbor will be an experiment where to explore the idea of the book as public spaces and the community of books as an artifact to investigate and build transversal knowledge.
This project is made for the IDW 2020 International Design Workshop at the University of Antwerp, with master students from architecture, product& development and culture heritage studies.
