Browse the gallery above for a look inside Domus 1031 The January issue of Domus magazine is the first with guest editor Winy Maas at the helm. At the close of the year, the 10 editions of the magazine guest edited by Maas will come together as a book of ten parts, offering a snapshot of the future of urbanism as seen in 2019.
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We dedicate 2019 to exploring the world of the future. Winy Maas' inaugural issue as guest editor includes a survey of speculative urbanism projects in Africa, and discusses the role of signs and video games in placemaking.
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its urban appearance.
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- Jessica Mairs
- 09 January 2019
Block by Block, a platform using the interface of the video Minecraft to simulate urbanism projects, gives end-users the chance to have a say in environments being created for their use. The revolutionary tool is included among others in a feature in Domus 1031 exploring how virtual platforms are improving cities. Also in this issue is a critical survey of over 100 proposals for urbanism across the African continent – from middle-class housing developments to new financial cities; a review of the cavernous beach-side Dune Art Museum in Qinhuangdao; and a discussion on why the decision to move Amsterdam's contentious “I amsterdam” sign is ludicrous.
The edition also includes an interview with Milan's mayor, Giuseppe Sala, by Domus Editorial Director Walter Mariotti, and an overview of a workshop in which Maas asked Milanese schoolchildren to imagine the future of their city in Lego.
On 26 November 2018, Winy Maas presented his project for Domus ’19 at a state school in Milan, following a workshop that involved the students, who imagined the city of the future. Starting from their own neighbourhood, they gave shape to their ideas and wrote a letter to the Mayor to have their proposals realised.
In Cross Road Blues, Oli Kellett tackles the overblown issue of the relation between people and the city.
As a movie set, Davos radically changes
its urban appearance.
Qing Feng presents the latest work by Open Architecture.
The public knowledge space. OMA, Qatar National Library, Doha
One of the East’s most important infrastructure nodes, designed by Andrew Bromberg at Aedas.
The vertical village Individual and dense.
Aleph Zero, Rosenbaum Children Village, Brazil
Interview with the Mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala.
Bringing real and virtual together in the urban project can actively involve citizens in improving the space they live in.
Olafur Eliasson, Minik Rosing Ice Watch, London.
The new complex designed by the firm SANAA as an extension of the Milan University is due to be completed. The additional section, which occupies a disused industrial area of 35,000 m2, includes a residence for 300 students and teachers, the headquarters of SDA Bocconi distributed between three buildings, and a multipurpose centre with park and Olympic swimming pool for general use. The inauguration is scheduled to take place this year.
The critical nexus the Atlas for the End of the World addresses is the global tension between food production, urbanisation and biodiversity.
Text by Angela Maderna