Design for a Post-Neoliberal City

Article: Design for a Post-Neoliberal City. Jesko Fezer. e-flux journal 17, 06/2016.

URL = http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/153

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"From being strategic sites for the implementation of neoliberal policy, cities may possibly become a new political arena for experiments in democracy—and thus require a new design. Designers continue to hold back with criticism and proposals, but the time has come to redefine the role of design in a social city—and to take action. Design in the context of cities could redefine itself as a search for an alternative urban practice, beyond the techniques and the ideology of crisis-ridden, late-capitalist urbanism. For it is precisely in the field of design, which has hitherto seen only a cautious approach to urban issues, that one finds unexplored potential for an intentional (re)design of space." (http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/153)