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The contemporary university model is not only intrinsically linked to the capitalist system but it perpetuates the commercial values which currently drive society. Despite the illusion of welfare that these universities promote, human beings have never been the priority. Instead, the institution is motivated by monetary value and international status.
The proposal aims to challenge the current university prototype by consciously operating solely at the benefit of the people. Therefore, as people descend into more hedonistic and self serving intentions in the post work society, the objective of the proposal is to focus on personal fulfillment as means to ultimately encourage individuals to then contribute more broadly to the community.
The islands of the university archipelago work to refuse the current conservative canon and technocratic discourse to instead reorient the students within a more progressive learning environment. By offering this new urban pedagogy the university is able to “educate” on the necessity of a pleasure-focused future, which liberates current topics like sexual freedom and social sustainability.
The Anti-Uni investigates pleasure as a means of ‘self-investment’, one that provides and celebrates instant gratification – as opposed to the current capitalist canon where pleasure must be earned and “worked for”. Thus, the “university” will facilitate less destructive modes of pleasure such as those that relate specifically to the stimulation of the senses. Pleasure will be experienced at a multiscale, beginning with the body and exploring the potential of the tangible and intangible moments of pleasure.
Thus the Anti-Uni pushes for architecture to pursue pleasure as a program and organising principle, especially when working in the idiom of universities and iconography. It intends to investigate the qualities of programs that currently synthesize pleasure, and how we understand it, to inhabit the architecture. As such the proposal becomes one that not only scrutinizes the current university institution whilst proposing humans as the central operation, but one that operates from pleasure itself as a plane to do so.