Open City Design Institute (OCDI) takes the city as its campus. The embodied and charged intellectual, technological and artful capacities of our cities become its classrooms and crossroads. The enrolled participants, or ‘agents’, act as inquisitors as well as instruments, crisscrossing their contexts, accesses, tools, biases and agendas. Hybrid and nonhierarchical itineraries will be promoted and projected through OCDI programmes, generating exposures and networks towards open-hybrid-nonhierarchical alliances. During the Biennale Architettura 2021, OCDI will run a proto-programme to generate its manifesto and manual for replication through a network of agents, agendas and projective scripts.
JAE SUNG CHON is a designer and educator. He is interested in design that mobilizes and enacts socio-cultural dynamics. His work, practice and teaching focuses on housing and urbanism.