‘The Open Society and its emergencies’ Theses on Urbanity in the Age of Disaster

The celebration of the election of the Commune, 28 March 1871

The Dutch contribution to the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale is entitled Open: A Bakema Celebration. This presentation is a critical reflection on the work and research developed by Jaap Bakema (1914–1981) concerning the idea of an open society. During the Biennale ArchiNed is taking the discussion about the open society out of the Dutch pavilion and into the world of today on the World Wide Web. In six articles designers and academics will critically reflect on the idea of the open society. Readers are expressly invited to take part in this debate. The first contribution ‘The Open Society and its emergencies’. Theses on Urbanity in the Age of Disaster comes from the Belgian cultural philosopher, activist and writer Lieven De Cauter, who posits thirteen theses.

Read the article on the website of ArchiNed.