PARTI-CITIES

Studio Shajay Bhooshan

Tutors Ariadna Lopez, Andy Watts

Team Jamil Al Bardawil, Yara Manla, Cheolyoung Park, Pin-Ju Wang

Urbanisation has transformed the world we live in. To this day, the continuous effect of urbanisation has given birth to mega-cities around the world, and it is estimated that by 2030, the world could have 43 mega-cities of more than 10 million inhabitants. While urbanisation is generating issues such as scarcity in space, high living costs and resource depletion in construction, it is at the same time a catalyst for inducing human-to-human encounters, sparking ideas for innovative solutions, and creating enticing environments for startups to seed and grow.

When compared to major cities around the globe, London is ranked third for best startup ecosystem and fourth in tech investment. However, while the diverse talent pool and high networking possibilities are creating incentives for tech startups to establish their businesses in London, high costs and stakes to launch and sustain them are pushing these startups away from the city centre, eventually, excluding the innovative forces from taking part in and contributing to the urban development.

PARTI-CITIES is a system inviting both startups and the community to come together as the driving forces of urban transformation. Within the cyber-physical gaming platforms, startups can socialise, collaborate, and propose innovative plans to attract tokens as funds, while the community utilises tokens as votes to fund and build the projects they believe of value, creating a symbiosis of bottom-up urban agglomeration through negotiated crowd intelligence. Powered by decentralised finance technology, direct agency could be delivered to citizens to take part in the urban creation process of reaching crowd consensus. With the combination of robotic hot-wire cut geometry and in-situ concrete casting, spatial components and casting formwork become one, allowing mass customisation with structurally informed geometries and material efficient construction. PARTI-CITIES aims to reimage an urban transformation system that is leveraging technology and startup innovations, gravitating citizen centric requirements, and providing adaptive digital construction solutions.