Confetti Urbanism

In the absence of pre-existing rules, favoring instead the production of atmosphere and experience, the conventional placeholder(s) of disciplinary or systemic protocols are sup-planted by qualitative eff ects that expand received histories or inherited definitions. Perhaps, then, we can think of Candy Land as analogous to self-authorship developed within, across, and atop broader physical arrangements whereby loose, fl eeti ng, and informal organizati ons a ffi liate with explicit functi onal protocols and subtly embedded experi-enti al intenti ons. In this way, Candy Land is a ffi liated with confe tti – simultaneously immersive yet fl eeti ng, informal yet temporarily specifi c, and individuated yet collecti vely social. Furthermore, qualiti es, in the absence of hard-core rules, are transferrable. This opens conceptual territory for an expanded defi niti on of confe tti as both a material and organizati onal logic and of urbanism as an insti tuti onal construct.

Volume Editors
Jasmine Benyamin, Kyle Reynolds, Mo Zell, Nikole Bouchard & Whitney Moon

ISBN
978-1-944214-28-9