We are living in a 24/7 world dictated by endless growth, profit and productivity. To always be doing, producing and improving have become synonymous with our ideas of a successful lifestyle. At the same time our cities are becoming more controlled, predictable and efficient. It’s a mechanic and illuminated world without shadows that keeps accelerating without any time for resting and becoming.
Supervised by Cristian Ștefănescu and Cristof Mayer at the Bergen School of Architecture, Sometimes Making Nothing Leads to Something is an academic project situated at the current port of Bergen (NO)—a 40-hectare future coastal development area. It explores the need for unprogrammed public spaces in our cities devoted to collective daydreaming. Through five interventions spread across the site it questions our relationship to our contemporary way of living and to our surrounding world.
