Radical Pragmatism:
A Manual for a Performative City
Project developed in partnership with Isaac Stein and Stefano Romagnoli
Critic: Rosalea Monacella
Through this project, we sought to define what a adaptive city would look like. For us, an adaptive city is one which accepts the inevitable, constant change and degradation of the landscape. As a result of this constant change, the adaptive city is one with no personal land ownership, but collective landownership with individual habitation domains.
Our approach to the adaptive city sought to find the middle point between that which is a pragmatic and performative solution to adaptability it. We found our ideal city somewhere between a response from the Army Corps of Engineers and Archigram.
The following are excerpts from the manual, as well as drawings detailing the evolution of this adaptive city as it responds to the inevitable passage of time.
Harvard Graduate School of Design | Fall 2017
