SEIWOOO MANNISI ALBAN

NO IDEA WHERE IT COMES FROM

No Idea where it come from For REVISION, San Franciso, USA Pacific Ocean - 2008 Download full pdf SET

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Postulate

This is the study on the potential changes of world map and the analysis of its phenomenal modification of the world dated from now to year 2048. Focused on the social factors brought by the actors, it draws attention on the longevity of it crucial effects on earth. It is to develop some critical views on the new trend of sustainability in urban planning and to stimulate the people involved to be more conscious of the possible outcomes that can be disastrous.

In Mind

In 2048, Saipan is no more an island, but a port bordered by a lake in the heart of the Middle Pacifi c of Sandy Ocean.

Appeared usual and ordinary, the life of expended continents is, nevertheless, not the same with sand-belts of Middle Pacifi c Highland and industrial exportation.

The dwellers that were mainly aborigine in 2008 are presently composed of the migrants from the coasts of collapsed continents, who never settle down and always

sail within the same dunes of the Pacific.

Saipan that was a worldwide mockery 30 years ago is now a master and governor of the newly born empire and its reputation became out of reach. The upheavals that bore the banks are of maieutic on a world currently in rejuvenation. What is achieved in Saipan makes the old and withered world envious of a ‘beauty of elsewhere’.

The wealthy countries have cast long an inquisitive glance at the Pacific and each developed a relaxation resort providing balance sheet.

However, these same defenders of beauty as such will later discover somewhat different advantage of the wild region. It will rejoin the Kyoto Protocol (1997). Neither a place to hide nor any fi nancing to treat having found, the billon tons of food wastes will be buried underground and this holiday resort at the edge of social misery will simply accept the helps from wealthy countries referring to a substantial development.

The ‘sustainable chic’ of these embezzlers may grow beyond reason till the chemical implosion. The billion tons of wastes on the coasts will infi ltrate into the land and destructure the terrestrial elements. In result, the slow erosion will begin fi lling the Pacifi c with the aggregates from continental coasts. Gradually the fi lled ocean will form a multitude of dunelands.

The promoters of resorts and ecology who poured their bins on the earthly paradise will organise scrupulously ‘a new commerce’ on the land, “Restore”, that is pump the sands of the land and sell it to the damaged countries to reconstitute their coasts.

Looked at reversely, this is precisely what formulates Saipan of a new allure, new commerce, and new statue of today in 2048 in the Middle Pacifi c Highland of dunelands, a city as an idol of sustainable action, which turned out to be a scapegoat of sustainable spirit.

This is an attempt to understand how such an issue like ‘sustainability’ and itswrong doings can cause baleful effects that will echo in the future for centuries.

No Idea Where It Comes From is featured in the issue of April 2009 of Topos , International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design.  ‘In this issue, Alban Mannisi even ventures a visionary projection into the distant future. “Sustainable is the key word of the moment” is how he describes the point of departure for a scenario that extends up to 2048’ EDITORIAL Robert Schäfer, Director of TOPOS Magazine.

Comment from Philippe Corcuff :

-Politologue, maître de conférences de science politique à l'IEP de Lyon. Il participe aux mouvements sociaux, à l'altermondialiste et à la gauche radicale.

-Political analyst, lecturer of political science in the IEP (INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL STUDIES) of Lyon, he is active in social movements, anti-globalization, and the radical left. 2010

‘Merci pour votre fable visuelle écolo-humaniste à tonalité anticapitaliste, mais avec suffisamment de sens du tragique pour ne pas tomber dans l'optimisme bébête et les langues stéréotypées qu'on trouve trop souvent dans les milieux anticapitalistes. Et puis avec un souci de l'inventivité du langage politique, qui fait aussi tellement défaut dans ces milieux.’

‘Thank you for your Eco-humanist visual fable, with its anti-Capitalist undertones and enough sense of the tragic not to fall into foolish optimism nor the stereotypical rhetoric found all too often in the anti-Capitalist arena. Plus a concern with inventiveness of political language, which is sorely lacking in these arena.’

2010

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