"I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle which will enable us to be spontaneous, independent, yet related to each other, rather than maintaining a lifestyle which only allows to make and unmake, produce and consume - a style of life which is merely a way station on the road to the depletion and pollution of the environment. The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies." ~ Ivan Illich

 

 

The Portable City is about creating a social space through which to engage people in conversation and exchange, using an arts based approach to building human connection while ending the silence that exists between us; it is a study on creating dialogue amongst those who experience urban alienation and isolation: The conversations held in a real time platform the idea of connection and dialogue.

 

The Portable City Project asserts an effort for the ‘I" and "thou" to become meaningfully engaged through communicating about a shared experience, and our thoughts about our relationship to the landscape, geography and public space, day-to-day life, and our sense of memory and belonging.

 

The Portable City Projects have been deeply inspired by the work and writings of Guy Debord and The Situationist International, The notion of the Soapbox and the Speakers Corner, Allan Kaprow, Relational Aesthetics, and walking.