Destination: Geodecity
Saturday
4th & Sunday 5th August 2007
Leicestershire, UK
Abandon your old homes and travel with us to the future!
Reactor invited the residents of the world's failing cities to sign up to become citizens of Destination: Geodecity. As pioneers journeying to this ideal ‘future city’, they were involved in the visioning of a new utopia, whilst simultaneously laying the foundations on which it would be built.
Rather than being a vague, impossible dream, this was a coherent programme for action that could be achieved in a weekend. A practical project, focusing on lived experience: participants worked, slept and played within this new reality, their input shaping its ongoing future. Utilising the geodesic dome – the classic design of architect and visionary R. Buckminster Fuller – as its building block, a new city of the future took shape.
As the first stage of the Geodecity
Project, Destination: Geodecity opened up a bold, new direction for humanity, with ideas and
practical solutions from the weekend forming the basis of future Geodecity Project events,
and the community of engaged participants brought together developing a shared
history, culture and identity as Geodecians. Reactor continues to facilitate
and nurture this fledgling community and activly invites the Geodecians' input into future
manesfestations of the Geodecity Project.
A Three Cities 'Create and Connect' project supported by Angel Row Gallery; Quad; The City Gallery;
Charnwood Council and Leicestershire County Council
