"How would a city look like without concrete?"
A few years ago i was in the north of Brazil, in a little village called Jericoacoara and then I moved to Praia de Pipa. In this time the streets were made out of sand and all the little houses were out of wood. All was full of trees and the atmosphere during the evening is something really unbelievable. I imagined a city a hundred times bigger than this little village with the same concept. Imagine how the summer will be without all that concrete. How the kids will grow up and the older people will enjoy their last years.
Marcelo
Burlon
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Aram
Dikiciyan
Photographer Aram Dikiciyan was born in 1974 in West-Berlin. He moved to Tokyo in 2004, where he has been resident ever since. Exhibitions of his work have been held in Tokyo, Berlin and Hong Kong. He has been represented by Berlin Gallery Camera Work since 2008.
Throughout the life over there he found that things are generally rather unpredictable but definitely either interesting to thrilling or surprising to wondrous thus a little predictable then again.
bathed in light
He dealt with the inconceivable which allowed him to catch a glimpse of what he called then the futurity of his own: Fragments of what could be or how it could look like.
He never knew exactly what it was but it provided an insight into what could have been.
So what would he have imagined about tomorrow?
Life to consist of dark days and bright nights?
Or rather bright days and blinding nights?
Reflective surfaces, glowing and pumping?
Intermittent pulsating conducting the rhythm of time?
Busy veins but orderly?
Kindness? Goodness? Awkwardness?
Frequent beauty?
- a city without concrete is bathed in light
- a city without concrete is bathed in light
- a city without concrete is bathed in light
- a city without concrete is bathed in light
- a city without concrete is bathed in light
softer, lighter, brighter
going beyond the mere look, cities would be more dusty, more muddy, less protected [against nature's rages and human evil]. the idea, the esthetical vision, is a fine and noble one. however, I think that many patterns of today’s “civilisation” would have to be overcome/omitted in order to make it attractive as a place of living. vehicles using fossil fuels, plastic wrappings, overhead wirings etc. would have to be illicit [which would not be the baddest thing anyway]. cities then would be giant camps and this would surely have an enormous impact on the development of society. only if enough natural resources were at hand seems questionable…