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 |
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Profiles
Nicholas Clear
- School of Art, Design and Architecture - Acting Dean of Art Design and Architecture
- Centre for Urban Design, Architecture and Sustainability - Member
- Centre for Cultural Ecologies in Art, Design and Architecture - Member
Person: Academic
Cite this
Clear, N. (Architect), Park, H. J. (Designer), Aling, M. (Designer), & Withers, S. (Designer). (2015). The Gold Mine - Royal Academy Summer Show. Exhibition, London: Royal Acacdemy of Arts.