WIRED announces Zuloark’s Urban Parliament as the town hall of City Fictions
WIRED announces the art programme of FutureEverything Festival 2014, taking place in Manchester from 27 March to 1 April under the theme Tools for Unknown Futures.
Within the festival, City Fictions proposes to imagine near-future urban institutions through prototypes, public space interventions, participatory installations and urban experiments. For two days, the NOMA area will become a temporary city where objects, services and public spaces test other ways of relating to technology, democracy and everyday life.
In this context, WIRED presents Zuloark’s Parliament of Urban Rights as the town hall of City Fictions: a temporary debating space, built in wood and open to anyone in Manchester who wants to use it for civic purposes, neighbourhood meetings, gatherings with friends or assemblies.
The Parliament arrives in Manchester as a new materialisation of the Universal Declaration of Urban Rights. Its aim is to create a place where people can collectively discuss the regulation, construction, legislation and use of public space. It is not only an object installed in the city, but a shared infrastructure for speaking about urban rights.
After Lisbon, the Parliament continues to travel and adapt to new contexts. In Manchester, as part of FutureEverything, it joins a conversation on possible futures, urban technologies and new forms of civic participation. Once again, the Declaration is written by bringing bodies together around a table — or around a set of stands — and testing what a more open, more discussed and more shared city could be.
Festival: FutureEverything 2014
Programme: City Fictions
Venue: NOMA, Manchester
Festival dates: 27 March – 1 April 2014
City Fictions: 29-30 March 2014