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The Gold Mine
The Gold Mine is a project for a post-scarcity city set in a post-singularity future and located in the Thames Estuary on Canvey Island. The Gold Mine is intended to test speculative concepts taken from literary science fiction within the context of a formal architectural project and is seen as an alternative model for urban design at a time when neo-liberal ideologies dominate our thinking on the city. The Gold Mine is a thought experiment intended to re-ignite debate around the issue of Utopia and possibility of a radically different conception of human society. The Gold Mine explicitly draws upon speculative architectural projects such as Constant Nieuwenhuis’s New Babylon and science-fiction utopias such as Iain M Banks The Culture.
The Gold Mine is an attempt to imagine a future that is not dominated by the narrow concerns of late capitalism but to create an architecture that sees as its goal the creation of a society that is developed for the betterment of all its members and not simply one that is trying to be slightly-less worse for a few.
Loncon 3 was the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention held at the Excel Centre between 14-18 August 2014. Loncon 3 was one of the most successful Worldcon’s ever held selling he most memberships (10,833) and had the second largest in-person attendance (7,951) of any Worldcon to date.
The Gold Mine was a specially commissioned exhibition by Events Division head, Farah Mendelsohn
The Gold Mine is a project for a post-scarcity city set in a post-singularity future and located in the Thames Estuary on Canvey Island. The Gold Mine is intended to test speculative concepts taken from literary science fiction within the context of a formal architectural project and is seen as an alternative model for urban design at a time when neo-liberal ideologies dominate our thinking on the city. The Gold Mine is a thought experiment intended to re-ignite debate around the issue of Utopia and possibility of a radically different conception of human society. The Gold Mine explicitly draws upon speculative architectural projects such as Constant Nieuwenhuis’s New Babylon and science-fiction utopias such as Iain M Banks The Culture.
The Gold Mine is an attempt to imagine a future that is not dominated by the narrow concerns of late capitalism but to create an architecture that sees as its goal the creation of a society that is developed for the betterment of all its members and not simply one that is trying to be slightly-less worse for a few.
Loncon 3 was the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention held at the Excel Centre between 14-18 August 2014. Loncon 3 was one of the most successful Worldcon’s ever held selling he most memberships (10,833) and had the second largest in-person attendance (7,951) of any Worldcon to date.
The Gold Mine was a specially commissioned exhibition by Events Division head, Farah Mendelsohn
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Loncon 3: 72nd World Science Fiction Convention |
| Publication status | Published - 14 Aug 2014 |
| Event | Loncon 3: The 72nd World Science Fiction Convention - ExCel, London, United Kingdom Duration: 14 Aug 2014 → 18 Aug 2014 http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/72nd_World_Science_Fiction_Convention |
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Nic Clear
- School of Arts and Humanities - Professor and Dean - School of Arts & Humanities
- Centre for Urban Design, Architecture and Sustainability - Member
- Centre for Cultural Ecologies in Art, Design and Architecture - Member
- Sustainable Living Research Centre
Person: Academic
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The Gold Mine: A Post Singularity Utopia
Clear, N., 30 Dec 2020, In: Architecture Image Studies. 1, 2, p. 54-66 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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What is Radical Today? 40 Positions on Architecture: The Post-Singularity City
Clear, N. (Artist), 6 Sept 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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Greenwich at the Royal Academy
Clear, N. (Artist), Aling, M. (Designer), Park, H. J. (Artist) & Withers, S. (Designer), 25 Sept 2015Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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The Gold Mine, Synthetic continuum at augmented labyrinth sector
Translated title of the contribution :골드마인, 증강미로에서의 합성 연속체 Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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The Gold Mine - Royal Academy Summer Show
Clear, N. (Architect), Park, H. J. (Designer), Aling, M. (Designer) & Withers, S. (Designer), 8 Jun 2015Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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Activities
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60 Second Architecture
Park, H. J. (Organiser), Kim, J. (Organiser), Lee, J. Y. (Organiser) & Clear, N. (Member of programme committee)
5 Jun 2015 → 25 Jul 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...