PPC Imaginariuam Competition 2018-2019

Migration is a complex and urgent spatial challenge. Migrant Doug Saunders suggest that unprecedented urbanization patterns bear witness to an epic story of human movement, search in motion by the common search for a better life. Yet, architecture's current response to migration often remains anachronistically constrained by classical nation-state ideas of "place" and "identity". This primitive view persists even though proper management of the burgeoning numbers of migrants, especially in Europe, is commonly regarded as one of the most rapidly growing global problems of the century.

The commission is for the interrogation of what a migrant threshold in your inner city could be - a place for assimilation and integration, that would consider transience and permanence, and ultimately that would be about both the quotidian and the aspirational. This place must provide a sense of belonging within the city while expressing the fragile and contested identities of its users. In addition, the aspirational brief requires an interrogation of the meaning of agonistic space as suggested by Chsntal Mouffe.