global strategy _ mediterrania

Mediterrania” was thought to be a strategic instrument for urbanistics and tourism to scout the self growing development of a linear city at the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea, specially influenced by tourism.

 

Project title: Mediterrania

Published: APART research entry, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, 2002;

ASA – world-congress, London 2007

Project term: 2001 -

Concept: su.n - spaceunit.network

 

“While there is a wide discussion about the east expansion of the ec, the same happens almost unnoticed and inofficial at the south border, where it is first of all tourism that changes the whole social field of the mediterranian. (2002)

Dealing with a huge migration to Europe, we find European moving especially to the south where within the last decade a new unnoticed city has been growing: “Mediterrania”. It is not a city in the classical sense, but following the dissertation “touristic-landscapes” (TUG, Doc-Prog. - Austrian Academy of Science 2001), we see a “linear – knot – city” (following “Punkt und Linie zu Fläche”, W.Kandinsky, 1926): first- and second-row settlements for tourist / domestic use with knots as a) historic centers and b) airports / harbours. (2002)

Tourist "Mediterrania" uses the existing site as a scenery for its event (“un paysage d´evénements”, paul virilio, galilée, paris 1996), but in the same time the infrastructure to para-site the location." (12.12.2006)

Instead of trying to defend Europe against migration, investment for the new city part at the North coast of Africa could be done to revitalize the Mediterranean basin as a prospering region.