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Talking Citites Radio

Talking Cities Radio


Concept, Development, Production | 2006

Exhibition space realised at the Department of Hybridspace / KHM
Project Management:
Christoph Haag und Ina Krebs
Project Leader:
Prof.Frans Vogelaar
Project Support:
Andreas Muxel (light concept and design), Heiner Schilling (photography), Isabelle Niehsen, Therese Schuleit.
Technical Support:
Martin Nawrath, Heinz Nink, Martin Rumori.

Talking Cities Radio was realised in cooperation with urban drift productions Ltd.
Development and production of an audio-playback-system for the architecture exhibition Talking Cities. The created space serves also as a recreation area.

The space was rebuilt at the S AM during FREEZONE/FREIZONE.

Zeche Zollverein, Essen

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Development

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New Babylon

In New Babylon, where each person can freely use the technical apparatus and actively participate in the collective organization of space, these elements cannot be chosen according to a pre-established goal. Any initiative in one direction or another can, at any moment, be detourned by different, even opposed initiatives. If the New Babylonian can transform the environment and the ambiance by using the available technical material, if in so doing he can temporarily influence the behavior of others, he in turn undergoes their influence. In any event, the effect of his intervention does not last long, since being a provocation each intervention cannot remain without response. *

Each sector will be provided with the latest equipment, accessible to everyone, whose use, we should note, is never strictly functional. In New Babylon air conditioning does not only serve to recreate, as in utilitarian society, an 'ideal' climate, but to vary ambiance to the greatest possible degree. As for telecommunications, it does not only, or principally, serve interests of a practical kind. It is at the service of ludic activity, it is a form of play. *

Schweizer Architekturmuseum, Basel

Talking Citites Radio
Talking Citites Radio