The Hothouse is a techno-physical apparatus that provides a controlled warm environment for cultivation. On the other hand, a Concentration Camp is a fenced-in facility for subjects excluded or with pending legal protection, usually in conditions of forced labor. By linking the two terms and programs in the hybrid term Hot_Camp, an apparatus of collective life and work is introduced on the margins or between urban complexes. The intention is to provide a spatial and performative condition, under which metropolitan life diffuses into rural life and vice versa. Life for mobile subjects in a state of emergency is sought to be defined in the form of an open, heterogeneous community. The assemblage with different identities corresponds to an architectural assemblage of different spaces, objects and organic apparatuses. All these, people, animals, plants and objects form an alternative building block, with general characteristics, waiting to land as a new colony anywhere, between urban and rural. This trans-urban block refers to the precarious conditions of tomorrow’s life, to the conditions of the South, within the climatic, anthropological and political horizon of the Mediterranean.
Exhibition:
TOMORROWS
Urban Fictions for Possible Futures
17 MAY – 16 JULY 2017 12:00-21:00
Diplarios School (3 Theatrou Square) Artists, architects and designers create different stories about the future of cities. The exhibition presents utopian and dystopian scenarios, which utilize the future as a tool for understanding the present itself.
Free admission
Collaborator: Efthymia Dimitrakopoulou