Projects from Marc Maxey
SUB_city: political autonomy through spatial ...
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1514
name
Marc Maxey (marcmax)
country
united states
university
University of Michigan
department
Architecture
university address
2000 Bonisteel
48104 Ann Arbor
university country
united states
url
id
0009459
title
SUB_city: political autonomy through spatial acts of subversion
professor(s)
Mireille Roddier
rank
1514
tags
urbanism multimedia motion graphic film
year of making
2009
uploaded
2010-02-15 04:16:07
downloads
SUB_city Cookbook PART 1 of 4
SUB_city Cookbook PART 3 of 4
SUB_city Cookbook PART 4 of 4
SUB_city Cookbook PART 2 of 4
Detroit is a capital vacuum, rendering both land and object valueless. The shrinking city left an oversized bureaucracy and infrastructure, creating a negative feedback loop of entropy that sucked over 36,000 properties onto the city’s books. While the dysfunctional city government continues to falter, residents and non-profits are burdened with picking up the slack. Sub_City seeks to take over Detroit-owned property through spatial acts of subversion by ignoring the political system and creating a new, autonomous city within the city by aligning residents, non-profits, and creative practitioners to wage an invisible, non-violent war on the city through a diversion of capital. Detroit is not a problem to solve. It is a problem to ignore.
