This publication inquires into the future of post-industrial cities framing and speculating on different industrial contexts: archipelagos (Eibar), fabrics (Cobo Calleja), assemblies (Detroit).
Bilingual edition in English & Spanish.
With Contributions of: Pier Vittorio Aureli, Marta Catalan, Klaske Havik & Hans Teerds, Juan Herreros, Andres Jaque, Momoyo Kaijima, Maria Langarita & Victor Navarro, Philipp Oswalt, Cedric Price, Andres de las Alas & Alberto Lopez, Colectivo Berreibar, Almudena Ribot, Enrique Espinosa, Diego Garcia-Setien, Begona de Abajo, Gaizka Altuna.
From the contemporary architecture project CoLab works around industrialization, flexible systems, project participation and collaborative dynamics.
CoLaboratorio is a research, prototyping and production space.
It also includes new unpublished interviews and articles with international participants leading players in this field.
This book collects some relevant and engagingly contemporary insights.
Open Systems have been the research focus of CoLab since 2013.
Open City explores and speculates from contemporaneity about the future of the post-industrial city, where industrial archipelagoes (S), frames (XL) and obsolete or deprogrammed singularities (M/L) represent critical contexts but also opportunities for a new Open City.
Cities are organisms in continuous transformation: growth, change, but also shrinking or collapse.
Currently 55% of the world\'s population lives in cities, predictably reaching 70% in 2050.
This publication inquires into the future of post-industrial cities framing and speculating on different industrial contexts: archipelagos (Eibar), fabrics (Cobo Calleja), assemblies (Detroit)
