Wall as Heterotopia

TAUBMAN COLLEGE STUDENT SHOW 2020 WINNING PROJECTS Honorable Mentions

This project scrutinizes Ahmedabad’s recent development trends and addresses the legacy of social segregation, profit-driving policy, spatial erasure, and citizens’ identity loss. The outcomes are the progressive wiping off of the historic urban fabric and the loss of diverse citizenship. Reading the city as found and re-establishing new urban imaginaries, the project takes on the pervasive type of the “urban wall” as a potential form of power resistance. Through the registration of contextual observations, walls become containers of a multiplicity of identities, markers of difference in the urban continuum.

墙之异境

本项目着眼于艾哈迈达巴德 (Ahmedabad)近期的城市发展和随之出现的社会分裂，利益政策，肌理抹去，文化消逝的问题。通过重新理解城市和重建城市想象，设计希望利用城市已存的“墙” (urban wall)的空间和意识形式，将这一概念转化为可以抵制权力的容器。墙的概念在这里建立在福柯异托邦 (Heterotopia)观点之上，它们存在现实之中，却映未来之景。