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Abstract
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.
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is one of the largest open submission, each year it is curated by a leading Royal Academician,
in 2015 the Architecture Room was curated by Ian Ritchie. Selection is achieved through a two-stage process, the first is by an electronic
submission the second is through aphysical process.
The whole Gold Mine model was submitted though only three panels were selected.
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.
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is one of the largest open submission, each year it is curated by a leading Royal Academician,
in 2015 the Architecture Room was curated by Ian Ritchie. Selection is achieved through a two-stage process, the first is by an electronic
submission the second is through aphysical process.
The whole Gold Mine model was submitted though only three panels were selected.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Royal Acacdemy of Arts |
| Edition | Summer Show 2015 |
| Publication status | Published - 8 Jun 2015 |
| Event | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2015 - Main Galleries, Burlington House, London, United Kingdom Duration: 8 Jun 2015 → 16 Aug 2015 https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2015 |
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Nicholas Clear
- School of Arts and Humanities - Professor and Dean - School of Art Design & Architecture
- Centre for Urban Design, Architecture and Sustainability - Member
- Centre for Cultural Ecologies in Art, Design and Architecture - Member
- Department of Art and Communication
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., 6 Sep 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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The Gold Mine, Synthetic continuum at augmented labyrinth sector
Park, H. J., 6 Jun 2015, Experiment 01_60 Second Architecture. Park, H. J. (ed.). London: The Bartlett Alumni Korea, UCL, Vol. 1. p. 41-44 4 p. (Architectural Experiment Series).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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The gold mine: A ludic architecture
Clear, N., 17 Jul 2014, In: Architectural Design. 84, 4, p. 128-133 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Gold Mine Exhibition: 72nd World Science Fiction Convention
Clear, N., Aling, M., Park, H. J. & Withers, S., 14 Aug 2014Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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Activities
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60 Second Architecture
Hyun Jun Park (Organiser), Jinsook Kim (Organiser), Jun Yeol Lee (Organiser) & Nic Clear (Member of programme committee)
5 Jun 2015 → 25 Jul 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...