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The Rough Guide to The Principality of Nomadonia Spring, 2014 Edition Written and researched by Harry Thomas Day
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Harry Thomas Day 000741521-4 University of Greenwich Unit 16
The compact nature of the guide allows it to be easily transported to its point of use. Using cost effective materials relate to its fast turn over as new updated addendums are released by the Principality on a regular basis. Horse hair has been used to bind the guide in reference to one of Nomadonia’s key themes.
CONTENTS
Abstract Methodology statement 01
BOOK 1
Anatomy of the guide
1 before book 2 is read as it performs as a guide to the
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BOOK 2
guide Principality of Nomadonia: Guide Spring 2014 Edition
2.0 - How to use this guide 2.1 - In the previous addendum... 2.2 - Manifesto of the Principality 2.4 - Basics 2.5 - Getting around 2.6 - Places of (potential) interest 2.7 - Because you probably need to know... 2.8 - Appendices
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Please refer to book
2.0 - HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE1 This guide is aimed to act as a tool to those that wish to seek demystification of the Principality of Nomadonia. It can be read back to front, front to back or by any method of your choice. Its use extends to both before and after your time in Nomadonia.
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Those from the Principality will find that the guide will fit into your saddle pocket (Fig.02). The guide will get you there but you will be almost on your own after that...
2.1 - IN THE PREVIOUS ADDENDUM...
-How to train your horse -Dwelling starter kit 2.0 -Applying for citizenship -Constitutional monarchy -Manifesto. First revision -Arranging the city Fig 02. Typical saddle of Nomadonia
-Social etiquette in Nomadonia
1 For the purpose of this investigation it is important to consider the target audience. The guide for the Principality of Nomadonia has the intention of describing the transient state to visitors that may be from orthodox non-transient cities and those new to the community. The Whole Earth Catalog and Rough Guide to Berlin provide explicit introductions of how their respective guides should be read. Having an open, non-hierarchical framework for the guide promotes individual interpretation and therefore not everyone will have the same experience of the same place. Like the Whole Earth Catalog, its offers access to tools, but you’re on your own after that. Providing an insight into what is in Nomadonia has to offer and how it operates seeks to be applicable to a wide demographic. For further information refer to ‘target audience’, ‘chronology’– and other material in section 1 of this thesis. -2-
FIG.03. HALFWAY HOUSE ON HORSE HIGHWAY
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2.2 - MANIFESTO OF THE PRINCIPALITY OF NOMADONIA (SECOND REVISION)*
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The Principality of Nomadonia, a self-determined Sovereign State recognises that traditional Nation-States founded on a fixed geographical location are anachronistic.1 Globalisation2
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mobility through technological advancement4 has lead to a shift away from historic static representations of cities and countries.5 Nomadonia seeks to provide an environment that meets the demands of a progressively hyperconnected world beyond that determined purely by place of birth. The legal6 nomadic territory peacefully operates within the suburbs between nontransient cities7 of the United Kingdom as to limit its interference with existing infrastructures. Initially starting on the outskirts of London8 communications with the capital. 1 Lines on maps are now arbitrary, historical accidents, metaphors of a country need updating. Maps indicate a boundary, however these are now being blurred due to the advances in global connectivity. Ben Hammersley. ‘Redrawing the Worlds Maps’ 2 ‘Globalization refers to a multidimensional set of social processes that create, multiply, stretch and intensify worldwide social interdependencies and exchanges while at the same time fostering in people a growing awareness of deepening connections between the local and the distant.’ Manfred B. Steger. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. p.13 3 Ecstacity was conceived in reaction to the affects of globalisation. For further reading refer to Nigel Coates. A Guide to Ecstacity. p.41-43 4 Yasmine Abbas, an advocate of neo-nomadism, suggests that ‘mobility is now plural; it is at once physical, mental and digital’ where we are cable of navigating the world wide web by ‘hyper-texting.’ Yasmine Abbas, ‘Neo-Nomad Dictionary’. p.157-158 5 Globalisation is creating a ‘borderless world’. Manfred B. Steger. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. p.61 6 Article 1 of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States defines a State as possessing a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other States. The Principality achieves all of these and in an act of self-determination wishes to be addressed as a nation. John Ryan, Simon Sellars and George Dunford. Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-Made Nations. p.5-6 7 Deleuze and Guattari’s treatise on the characteristics of nomads states that ‘smooth or nomad space lies between two striated spaces ... but being ‘between’ also means that smooth space is controlled by the two flanks, (and) oppose its development.’ Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Nomadology: The War Machine. p.57 8 ‘The War Machine [nomad] is exterior to the State apparatus’ and resides outside of the systems of a defined state of power. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Nomadology: The War Machine. p.1 9 ‘The nomad inhabits these places, he remains in the them, and he himself make them grow, for it has been established that the nomad makes the desert no less than he is made by it.’ Nomadonia seeks to utilise the cities in its adjacency as opposed to seeking pure autonomy. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Nomadology: the War Machine. p.53 -5-
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to take advantage of its economic position9, Nomadonia looks to strengthen
Derived in response to a time of austerity10, the Principality of Nomadonia has evolved and broken away from the traditional city. It acknowledges the need to supply a growing population with housing11 and an environment which is suited to the current technological climate. In times of a global recession, flexibility is required to be able to move to places of work and resource12 in order to adapt and survive.13 Past concepts of mobility were restricted by the issue of energy source.14 Nomadonia attempts to counteract this through the utilisation of horse as both a mode of transport and as a means of power generation.
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The population may fluctuate and disperse as dictated by the prerequisites of Nomadonia and its political, social and economic contexts. The nation may only ever be ‘complete’ for a short period of time as it exists in a perpetual state of assembly and disassembly.15 Components of the city are moved via large stilt like structures, utilising the power of the horse. When the city is in transit it ‘deterritorialises’16
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space as it moves through the suburbs of the United
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10 ‘The idea of a non-permanent building has overtones of economy, austerity, economy.’ Peter Cook [ed.]. Archigram. p.110 11 There is a lack of new housing being provided for in the United Kingdom. It is estimated that by 2016, 240,000 new homes will be required each year, 70,000 of which deemed affordable. Wendy Wilson. Housing Supply and Demand. p.76 12 ‘The Nomad has a territory, he follows customary paths, he goes from one point to another, he is not ignorant of points (water points, dwelling points, assembly points, etc.)’ Furthermore ‘the nomad only goes from point to point as a consequence and as a factual necessity’ rather than in an act of randomness. In the case of Nomadonia these points relate to places of economic and resource. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Nomadology: The War Machine. p.50 13 Detroit is an example of a city that has suffered due to its inflexibility in the event of change. Richard Wolff, ‘Detroit’s Decline is a Distinctively Capitalist Failure’ 14 David Greene in Cook, Peter [ed.]. Archigram. p.110 15 ‘Short production life ensures a constant demand and allows for continual development and change.’ David Greene & Samantha Hardingham [eds.]. L.A.W.U.N Project #19. p.C34 16 ‘The process of deterritorialization constitutes and extends the territory itself.’ Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Nomadology: The War Machine. p.37 17 An analogy that they deploy to describe the nature of the nomad is between the games such as chess [representing State] and Go [nomad], which operates in nomadic ‘smooth space’. ‘The difference is that chess codes and decodes space, where Go proceeds altogether differently territorialising or deterritorialising.’ Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Nomadology: The War Machine. p.4 -6-
As a hybrid of past, present and future technologies18
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the nation seeks to
define a new transient population taking references from characteristics of past nomadic tribes20. Taking a primitive foundation based around the horse and superimposing this with the latest technologies defines Nomadonia as an ‘information megalopolis.’21 Proprietary mobile domestic units are provided for each citizen,22 of which terminologies such as Neo-nomad23 have been attributed. As such they posses abilities to ‘re-locate’24 and curate their own space.25 Despite historical negativity towards nomadic people26
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Nomadonia strives to promote the idea of a
A ‘no trace policy’ is adopted to ensure when the city decides to uproot, vacate and move to an alternative site it leaves no residue or signs of existence.
18 ‘Technological archeology.’ Reyner Banham, ‘Great Gizmo’ in A Critic Writes: ESSAYS by Reyner Banham. p.114 19 Artist Akira Yamaguchi in his work ‘drawing [horse]’, 2011, ‘erases a chronological gap between a warhorse and a motorcycle.’ ‘Akira Yamaguchi Explores the Idea of Time’, Designboom 20 Deleuze and Guattari deploy an analogy that they deploy to describe the nature of the nomad is between the games such as chess [representing State] and Go [nomad], which operates in nomadic ‘smooth space’. ‘The difference is that chess codes and decodes space, where Go proceeds altogether differently territorialising or deterritorialising.’ Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Nomadology: The War Machine. p.4 21 McLuhan suggests that cities will no longer be a place of work or residence but rather a stage to show off new technologies. Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore. Medium is the Massage. p.72 22 ‘A basic assumption about housing has always been that a human being needs a house but this has to be reassessed in the light of increasing personal mobility and technological advance.’ Greene, David & Samantha Hardingham [eds.]. L.A.W.U.N Project #19: The Disreputable Projects of David Greene. p.C35 23 A ‘mobile individual who constructs and reclaims a sense of belonging to places through digital, mental and physical means.’ Yasmine Abbas, ‘Neo-Nomad Dictionary’. p.155-156 24 Practice of dwelling using methods such as using methods such as ‘sampling’ and ‘cloning.’ For further definitions refer to Yasmine Abbas, ‘Neo-Nomad Dictionary’. p.159-160 25 Yasmine Abbas. ‘Neo-nomadism’ 26 Deleuze and Guattari suggest that there is opposition that perceives nomads as ‘incapable of any innovation’ due to being a ‘pitiable segment of humanity.’ Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Nomadology: The War Machine. p.57 27 Even in the sixties the notion of the trailer-home dweller was perceived with elements of negativity; a ‘threat to the stability of current values.’ David Greene & Samantha Hardingham [eds.]. L.A.W.U.N Project #19. p.C33 -7-
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mobile lifestyle to those from non-transient places.
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2.4 - BASICS
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‘1.0 a member of a people that travels from place to place to find fresh pasture for its animals and has no permanent home 1.1 a person who does not stay long in the same place; a wanderer.’1
‘The charm of nomadic life is its freedom from care, its unrestrained liberty of action, and the proud self-reliance of one who is absolutely in turn, suffers the penalties that Nature visits upon him for every slip of mind or bungling of his hand. Carrying with him, as he does, in a few small bundles, all that he needs to provide food and shelter in any land, habited or uninhabited, the camper is lord of himself and of his surroundings.’2
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“Nomad.” Oxford Dictionaries Stewart Brand. Whole Earth Catalog. p.47 -9-
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FIG.04. HORSE WASTE AND VIEWING GANTRY
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WASTE COLLECTOR ULTRAMax The WCUMax system is THE ONE the others compare themselves too. The WCUMax delivers power, versatility and rugged construction for long lasting use. Its simple technology serves you with easy maintenance, and reliable performance. Fig.05. Horse waste collection system
on ‘UltraMAX FIT Chopper’, David Greene & Samantha Hardingham [eds.]. L.A.W.U.N Project #19. p.C27
PROSPER BY CLEANING UP AFTER YOUR HORSE. REMEMBER, IT POWERS YOUR GIZMOS! 1.
1. The use of statements in large typefaces in David Greene’s, L.A.W.U.N document [examples of this can be found on p.B2-B11] document provides a sense of quick-fire guidance whilst also helps to break up some of the more denser pages. Taking this into the context of the guide, it has been employed to convey one of the more pertinent messages to those visiting Nomadonia. Marshal McLuhan states ‘a perceptive or incisive joke can be more meaningful than platitudes lying between two covers.’ Marshall Mcluhan and Quentin Fiore. Medium is the Massage. p.10 -11-
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The use of adverts and reference material is a common feature in both the Whole Earth Catalog and L.A.W.U.N. Project #19 and allows the reader to gain quick access to useful information. Advert based
CODE OF CONDUCT1
In the event of...
Nomadonia may take some time to settle in. The dust produced from the thousands of horses can be a nuisance, but please use the masks provided at dispensing points found at the many Halfway Houses.
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It is important in Nomadonia that the property, and more specifically the horse are respected. It is advised that care is taken not to startle a horse as this may, in a worst case scenario, start a stampede...
UNIT OF MEASURE
The hand. Horse.2 To help with conversion: 1 hand = Aprox. 101.6mm
1 The guide attempts to provide information or guidance other than potential places to visit in order to act as a more accomplished guide to Nomadonia. In doing so, this also increases the target audience of the guide; making it applicable for those visiting as well as those living in the city. 2 Banham, on many occasions, refers to the scale of Los Angeles through ideas of cars and highways. The scale of Nomadonia is the horse. Reyner Banham, ‘Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles’ -12-
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2.5 - GETTING AROUND
(On your horse of course!)
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ARRIVAL
Depending on where you’ve come from, the fringe will differ...
The periphery. Where the landscape meets the new city.
Deposit your car. Mount your horse.
Follow the monument to the centre. Its a signpost!
your location coordinates in this guide.
When you see the...
At the...
When there is...
In the event of...
After the...
MOVING THROUGH THE MOVING CITY
The directions shown above are aimed at providing enough specificity for visitors to get to where they need to go but also allude to a sense of ambiguity to allow freedom of interpretation. -15-
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There are no street names in Nomadonia, therefore it is advised that you record
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The map for the Unbuilt Monument [Fig.06] has none of the content that you would expect from a traditional geographical map and highlights the difficulties of describing a place that moves. Its scale, rotation and origin are undefined suggesting an unknown, yet its parameters, such as North and South are all knowns. Referencing notions of the nomad, the chart critiques the conventional maps found in guides and instead allows the visitor to explore and define his/her own visit. The map is based [changed from a rectangle to a square the further the notion of symmetry and rotation] on the Ocean-Chart in Lewis Carroll. The Hunting of the Snark. p.17. Refer to appendix for original. A cartographic insert [map of England & Wales from Baedeker, Karl James. F. Muirhead. Baedeker’s Great Britain: A Handbook for Travellers] has been provided for this guide which represents the more formal approach to maps, but as it does not show Nomadonia, still provides a sense of ambiguity. Its primary function is to get you close enough to be able to see the city. Its date refers to when the horse was very much an integral component of everyday life in the city. Stephen Davis. ‘The Great Horse-Manure Crisis of 1894’, p.32 [Refer to ‘map, image and media’ in section 1 for further information] -16-
NORTH NORTH
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SOUTH POLE
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LATITUDE
FIG.07. HORSE MONUMENT NAVIGATION
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Align with the horizon - what do you see?
Horizon line
WELCOME
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Although analogue, the guide can have interactive elements to further cement the idea of tool. Based on pages from Medium is the Massage where it alludes to the perception of place or environment. ‘Environments are invisible. Their ground rules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns elude easy perception’. Marshall Mcluhan and Quentin Fiore. Medium is the Massage. p.84-85 In the Whole Earth Catalog, there is an image of striped ball that is placed next to items within the document to provide a sense of scale. This relationship of scale between the real and the guide in Fig.8 attempts to play on a similar theme. Refer to Stewart Brand. Whole Earth Catalog. p.3 -19-
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2.6 - PLACES OF (POTENTIAL) INTEREST
The use of halftone throughout the document refers to the reprographic techniques displayed in L.A.W.U.N Project #19. In this instance its use is employed to reduce the specificity of visual information. Refer to ‘information update’ in Book 1. -22-
FIG.09. INFLATABLE MONUMENT OF NOMADONIA
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THE UNBUILT MONUMENT1
Refer to Figs. 06,07 & 08 for its possible location. Depending on the time that this manual is read, the monument may or not be there...2
You may have seen one of the hooves being paraded through your village or city recently. They occasionally go on tour when the city is in transit to promote
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Nomadonia as an alternative way of living suited to global contexts.
Unlike conventional monuments, it moves, not only geographically but also through its structural composition which allows its head to turn and respond to weather conditions and provide an alternative vista across the city
We are not entirely sure what will be there when you arrive, so please, help us inform future visitors by giving US guidance...
1 Refer to ‘Content. What to see and do’ in section 1 of this thesis. 2 In Banham’s documentary he makes reference to the petrol station as being the same building typology but repeated in many different locations. In this instance it is same monument in a different place, being reproduced in a process of disassembly and assembly. Reyner Banham, ‘Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles’ -24-
FORREST (previous addendum)
HORSE HIGHWAY (Figs.03 & 11)
HORSE MONUMENT (Fig.09)
THE FOUR HORSE HOOVES (Fig.10)
Situated at regular intervals along the four main Horse Highways, the Halfway House accommodates the centre of business in Nomadonia. Accommodating the mobile worker and his horse they are one of the busiest places in the city.
WASTE AND VIEWING TOWERS (Fig.04)
Horse waste is an issue in Nomadonia. Where there is excess beyond our capabilities of packing it away for processing it is stockpiled adjacent to the viewing towers. Treated to prevent unpleasant odours, these mounds becomes integrated into the city scape of Nomadonia and act as a reminder to its primitive heritage.
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HALFWAY HOUSE (Fig.03)
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THE FOUR HOOVES
At the base of the monument you will see the hooves of the horse. To the rear of the front right hoof is an inconspicuous door that leads to the stair up through the legs and onto the numerous viewing platforms. Be cautious as the site is busy. Both small drones and abseiling workers attempt to keep the reflective surface of the monument clean from the high levels of dust.
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VIEWING TOWER VISTA ACROSS HORSE NORTHERN HORSE HIGHWAY
The viewing tower affixed to the underbelly of the inflatable horse provides unprecedented vistas across the low lying city. The workings of the city are clearly made apparent from the collection of horse waste using the WASTE COLLECTOR ULTRAMax to its processing and storage of waste gases in the balloons that float above. Neo-nomadic individuals can been seen travelling on their horses too and from the halfway houses during the day, while at night the wild horses tend to congregate around them for water.
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2.7 - BECAUSE YOU PROBABLY NEED TO KNOW...
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HORSE
Prosper by cleaning up after your horse1. Remember it powers your gizmos!
The integrity of the horse has a similar significance to the Principality as it did for both London and New York during the 19th Century.2 Along your travels you may come across the following breeds. They can usually be identified by their function within the city.
-Royal Horse - ridden only by the monarchy -Saddle Horse - General transport -Pack Horse - suited to saddle bags -Stock Horse - those used to round up other horses -Fake horses - hi-tech renditions of the horse to promote congregation of wild horses as well as being used for training purposes.
Fig.12. Typical Stock Horse
WEATHER/CLIMATE
Varies. Look out of the window of your (Home)stead...
1 With rapid growth of cities during this period an urban problem was occurring that was eventually dubbed the The Great Horse-Manure Crisis of 1894. The paranoia that London would soon be buried under nine feet of manure was alleviated by the introduction of the motor vehicle and instigated the decline of the horse in the city. Stephen Davis. ‘The Great Horse-Manure Crisis of 1894’, p.32-33 2 Stephen Davis. ‘The Great Horse-Manure Crisis of 1894’, p.32 -31-
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-Cart Horse - main workhorse
(HOME)STEAD
A home for those of Nomadonia may, at first, feel slightly unorthodox to your conventional dwelling. Because of the scale of the place and the fact that its location changes periodically, people are constantly coming and going. This population lag renders it important to pass over information.
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FIG. X. HOMESTEAD DISTRICT
FIG.13. HOMESTEADS OF NOMADONIA
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2.4 - ARCHITECTURE OF THE PRINCIPALITY1 1. There are two styles of architecture: “transportable”, now used by those of Nomadonia, and the ancient style called “everything else.” Of these, the transportable looks better, but its construction makes it likely to be less permanent.
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2. Both kinds should be constructed with precision. Since the architecture is made from interchangeable lightweight components they are apt at being rearranged. 3. This we may learn from several monuments in the environs of the city, which are built of aluminium or inflated lightweight skins. In course of time, the structures will need updating as they no longer serve their original purpose; and so a home for life is no more. 4. He who wishes to avoid such a disaster should abide by a simple framework. For thus his work, being no mere heap of material but set out to his desires, will be suited to the everyday with out a flaw. 5. Consequently, the method of construction advised by G.E.A.M2 are not to be despised. They speculate a structure of impermanence. 6. A structure is called transportable when all of its parts are able to be moved by a single cart horse and deployable by low skilled labour.
1 Adopting the style of Vitruvius, this section aims to set out an elaborate list of ‘rules’ that describe a framework for the architecture of the principality. This is an adapted chapter from the book. ‘Methods of Building Walls’ in Vitruvius, The Ten Books on Architecture. p.51-52 2 G.E.A.M [groupe d’étudies d’architecture mobile] outlined a number of principles for a mobile architecture in the 1950’s. Conrads, Ulrich [ed.]. Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture. p.167-168 -34-
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NOMADONIA IN TRANSIT
SHIT. THE HORSES ARE THE COMING! THE CITY IS COMING!
As previously referred to in its manifesto, Nomadonia transports itself using the power of the horse. Where possible, structures are dismantled and carried in smaller pieces, however in the case of larger components such as one of the hooves of the monument, they are raised on stilt like structures and transported as a single object. Such is the scale of these larger parts, up to 100 horses are required to move it.
During the summer months this transition of Nomadonia causes great plumes of dust that almost masks it from above (Fig.14)
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RESOURCE TOWER
During the period of transition when base camp is being set-up or dismantled, Nomadonia partly relies on such towers for its basic needs. The supply of a wireless internet connection, drinking water and electricity are all available at these points.
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2.8 - APPENDICES
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Although the postcard itself is a clichĂŠ of travel, the notes by the visitor represent the more descriptive side of Nomadonia and add to content of the thesis. These notes, in the context of the guide help provide further explanation to it qualities of place. -41-
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POSTCARD NOMADONIA
PRINCIPALITY OF NOMADONIA LOCATION COORDINATES:
TEAR ALONG LINE
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PLACE STAMP HERE The postcard. The quintessential reporting home device provides a tool for those to condense their experiences and let others know how you’re getting on. Reference to David Greene & Samantha Hardingham [eds.]. L.A.W.U.N Project #19. p.C146 -42-
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Personal notes. The blank space to which travellers and visitors can tailor their guide. Although space has been designated for notes at the back of this document, the low density of the pages of the guide allow for the whole document to be able to record notation. -43-
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Same city. Different place. Different time.
We endeavour to get the latest guides to you as soon as possible. In the mean time we publish a digital version weekly for your reference (https:// issuu.com/principalityofnomadonia) Published on behalf of the Principality of Nomadonia