It’s not the latest Hollywood production, the ultimate sound experience, or Apple’s next level consumer lock-in product line. And despite its ominous ring, it isn’t the enemy either, like how the NSA is framed as one. THE SYSTEM* indicates the complex interaction of the economy, professional practice and personal choice. The asterisk draws attention to the ambiguity of such a term while hinting at an intention to change ‘it’, whatever it is.
Ben Vickers - Curator of Digital at the Serpentine Galleries and initiator of unMonastery - sat down with Vinay Gupta - one of the world's leading thinkers on infrastructure theory, state failure solutions, and managing global system risks - to speak about practices and politics of decentralization. In 2002 Gupta invented an open-source solution to 'house the world'. The hexayurt shelter is designed to be manufactured anywhere in the world at any scale and from local materials.