Clay City (Studio Brodsky)

In the visiting design studio of Alexander Brodsky (Spring Semester 2019), an ideal city made of clay was created over a period of three months. Visitors to the Design Biennale Zurich can and should transform and redesign it.

This urban fabric, which grows out of dreams, emotional needs and memories, idealised personal experiences and monuments of world architecture, serves as a metaphor for time, memory, love, joy or loneliness. The city becomes a playground where buildings become characters and people become protagonists.

From the number of imaginable cities we must exclude those whose elements simply string together without a connecting thread, an inner rule, a perspective, a discourse. It is with cities as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but also the most unexpected dream is a picture puzzle that conceals a wish or its reversal, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are formed from desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules absurd, their perspectives deceptive, and each thing hides something different.
   

external page Clay City an der Design Biennale Zürich 2019

Project Management: Alexander Brodskiy

Students: Arnosti Moana; Stolbovoy Victor; Toboll Michèle; Basil Bründler; Rickli Laura; Kakur Juliet; Schaad Emil; Begun Sophia; Ziegler Severin; Arber Seren; Mottet Manon; Murer Stefanie; Morger Murielle; Huber Frederic; Lengerer Sina; Sermet Anne; Gao Yeshe; Lafranchi Noé; Wuite Eric; Gisler Flavio; Nils Brunell