Future Cities — Planning for the 90 per cent was an open call for visual projects in any media capable of transforming our urban spaces. Artists, photographers, architects and designers were invited to reflect on issues facing people in private and public spaces around the world, such as housing, transport, environment, leisure, overcrowding, proposing low cost, low tech solutions to improve conditions and understanding.
In forty years time, seven out of the world's nine billion inhabitants will be living in cities. Almost half will be living in non-formal accommodation. The need to improve the metabolism of the metropolis by designing for conditions and environments which have always been considered emergency situations is now urgent and necessary. Future Cities — Planning for the 90 per cent was an invitation to take a harder look at the real city wherever you happened to be, making time to think about the very important improvements that can be made by creative and thoughtful solutions to everyday problems.
Ateliermob, Portugal, Working with the 99%
Pichler Georg, Austria, Dumplab
gravalosdimonte arquitectos, Spain, Estonoesunsolar
Giovanni Hänninen, Italy, Rendering The City
Interazioni Urbane, Italy, FIL ROUGE_urban project
KH 11, Denmark, BaseCamp: a pop-up culture
Municipal Housing Secretariat of São Paulo, Brasil, Cantinho do Céu Complex
Paolo Patelli, Italy, A field is to play
Splace, Italy, Down Plastic Town
Claire Taggart, UK, Social housing
Anna Detheridge, president of Connecting Cultures, research agency, Milan
Joseph Grima, architect, editor of Domus Magazine
Richard Ingersoll, professor of Architecture at Syracuse University, Florence
Fulvio Irace, architect, professor of History of Modern Architecture, Milan
Mary Jane Jacob, artistic director of Public Programmes and director of Exhibition studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
