Waterworld 2

‘Waterworld 2’ is a self-proposed thesis made up of three main parts: a theoretical elaboration dealing with the overarching topic of post-capitalism; an architectural project in drawing and model; a multi-media narrative portrayal, suggestive of the life encapsuled within. Further explanations are deliberately left out, as the thesis tries not to provide an empirically fitting solution but rather to provoke a personal emotion through its imaginative character. It is not about what you can learn about the project but rather what you learn about yourself by engaging with the proposal made here.

'Waterworld 2' is to be understood as a fictional narrative of a future society. The architectural project itself - the Tower - is therefore contextualised in this very scenario. Even if the metaphorical message of the proposals made here seems to ignore more practical considerations at first glance, the Myth of the Tower is by no means just another utopian story. The Tower can be built today. [If necessary, in individual segments, in a number of sections or - even more likely - in an entirely different location than proposed. Even its physical appearance remains negotiable]. All the means are available. It can appear much more subtle and perfidious in its external appearance than this proposal claims to be. The imaginative nature of the Tower requires a fundamental belief in architecture as incubator of collective and individual desires. As synthetic materialisation of the narratives on which [post-]capitalist society is based. It consciously uses metaphors and stereotypes as instruments to create an individual link between space and emotion, context and narrative. The Tower carries out its work based on the inevitability of context. It provokes subjectiveness. Under the impression of impending doom, the shared concern for a meaningfulness, a fulfilment of all private desires within the framework of a subliminally collective and insanely permissive joint effort, produces an ambivalent dynamic. A phantom proposal, based on the knowledge that phantom reality may be the only possible successor to the present lack of reality. All the surviving dreamers rush towards the saving shore of the Tower, which will appear beyond the horizon. Full of hope, they will entrust themselves to the unknown. An incredibly persuasive promise. They will be deceived. Does it even matter?