Mangan City Overdrive AUTHOR(S) — Ante Sušić (HR), Architect
ŠIBENIK (HR) — SPECIAL MENTION
CONTACT — Zagreb (HR)
T. +385 915953757, antesusic.af@gmail.com
TEAM POINT OF VIEW — In the socio-economic context of the city
of Šibenik, whose industrial legacy has failed to accommodate the 21st century’s request for knowledge based productivity, the only production plausible is the (re)production of tourists. Since the city and its region have all the natural, cultural and historic qualities for visitors to consume, architecture can be purely quantitative. The site is completely exploited as it proposes a city with a tourist every 20 sqm. Various attractions on the site are organized as an archipelago of simulacra, reproducing historical, natural and cultural heritage. Delirious “Technology of the Fantastic” becomes sedative “Technology of the Authentic” blurring the distinction between the artificial and the ‘real’.
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Productourism
ŠIBENIK (HR) — SPECIAL MENTION
AUTHOR(S) — Roy Nash (IT), Luca Astorri (IT), Architects
CONTACT — P-U-R-A Platform for Urban Research and
CONTRIBUTOR(S) — Valeriia Aksenfeld (RU), Elena Georgievska
Architecture, Milan (IT)
(MK), Giulia Tosarello (IT), Matilde Villa (IT), Students in architecture
T. +39 3929617999, info.it@p-u-r-a.com, www.p-u-r-a.com
TEAM POINT OF VIEW — How can we achieve a sustainable
tourism? How can we bring production back into the city? Our goal is to establish a new relationship between tourists, local inhabitants and production: the collaborative work with local people is the new productourism. The tourist is looking for the experience of a different reality. He is wondering “what can I feel that I have not felt yet?”, rather than “what can I buy that I still do not own”, the memory of a place will be directly connected to the experience of each single productive activity. The creation of this new bond brings the tourist to discover the territory through the production cycle, lets the producer transmits his knowledge, creating a real connection with the environment.
