Solution 262
Lavapolis
by Michael Schindhelm

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Author(s)

Michael Schindhelm

Editor(s)

Ingo Niermann

Publication, year

Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2014

Scope

192 Pages, 18 cm.

ISBN

9783956790706

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The tenth speculation in the Solution series imagines a possible European present and future. Seventy years ago, the small island nation of Lavapolis was founded. It began as an alternative, a gambling destination to rival Las Vegas, and became a model for a new way of living. With its principle of universal solidarity, the nation counters the pitfalls of contemporary global society. It is an ever-shifting utopia; a volcano jutting out of the Mediterranean Sea; an extension of the open frontier. The biographies of its inhabitants are integral to the whole. If the world backs down from the challenges of Lavapolis, the island is destined to erupt.

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Location

Cabinet 28 - 5: Culturele benadering van de (stedelijke) ruimte

Remarks

Incl. Biography.