Tunisia
Pulse Diagram
Tunisia
Pulse Diagram
It is composed of 54 pylons, which refer to the 54 cities in More's Utopia, linked to each other by charred beams, created using an ancient Japanese technique that scorches the wood to extend its lifespan. In the early 1960s, the architect Yona Friedman proposed a 'mobile city', a series of moveable and floating megastructures, suspended on a grid of stilts so that they left a minimal footprint. With its burned wood supports, the Tunisian installation both celebrated Friedman's 'feasible utopia', and pointed to its fragile foundations.
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Chacha Atallah
Haythem Zakaria
Bertrand Sigwalt
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British Council Tunisia