WHAT IS RADICAL VITALITY?

RADICAL VITALITY is a research project that explores speculative fiction of New York City. Three frameworks envisage alternative futures of New York City through the lens of housing and food. This collection is demonstrated through a multimodal approach at producing artifacts that are curated to their respective framework to best represent their imagined futures. 

The three futures:  New Gotham, a Techno-Solutionist society, Civitas Radix, an ecocentric sitopia, and New Mannahatta, a decolonized diasporic urbanism.

Diagram of future frameworks and their overlapping relationships.

For more information about the research, ideation, and prototyping process, see below for the Thesis Book.

THESIS BOOK