Islands - bæredygtige byer

Architects, writers and artists have always liked to dream of islands and used
them as working material for imagining new futures. Recently the topic of islands
has been brought to the center of stage in Denmark. Islands have been proposed
as solutions to the challenges of our time as clean beginnings. New-built islands
have been presented as solutions to our ever-increasing need for urban housing,
but also as an embankment to resist rising water levels. Paul Virilio’s warning that
technology is predisposed with its own potential accident is turned inside out: The
solution is attempted built into the problem. This project acknowledges the need to
find such solutions, but suggests to go one step back in doing so. It simply asks,
‘what is an island’ if understood as an artistic problem of combining technology
and accident, intent and force.