Neo-futuristic Walks

A series of “walkable” city inspections that shape a community of Neo-futurists who collectively re-imagine new ways of urban coexistence.

Hosted by Aušra Česnauskytė and Goda Verikaitė

This project is now archived and was part of DDW21

Event type

Exhibition

Location

West

PLAN-B

Hurksestraat 19

5652AH

Neo-futurists on the bridge to Naujininkai

Bon Alog

Through the act of walking, neo-futurists explore the primal bodily experience’s role in unfolding new relationships in and with urban environments. They employ context-sensitive speculative scenarios to live in constant preparations for the inescapable urban futures.

We see our cities as huge lively ecosystems where every individual’s well-being is interdependent.

The project Neo-futuristic Walks was initiated at the end of 2020 by two spatial designers Aušra Česnauskytė and Goda Verikaitė. It was developed as a part of the Experiments platform organised by Architektūros Fondas. The first set of Neo-futuristic Walks started in Vilnius and London where an interdisciplinary community of students and other creatives were gathered for four months of city inspections. Goda and Aušra curated a series of online/offline workshops to start a dialogue between two contexts and kick off the creative exchange. The virtual dimension, as the space in between, allowed not only to overview the overarching global issues but also to discover the unique qualities of each context. In June 2021, the project as a performative tour was presented at the London Festival of Architecture 2021. In August 2021, a parallel event took place in Vilnius. During the Dutch Design Week, Neo-futuristic Walks will showcase the results of the first project phase and on the 22nd of October will organise an Urban Gleaning workshop in Eindhoven, Hurk area. Get your feet ready and take a walk with us! You can sign up for the workshop here: https://forms.gle/xQa1tbe7Wd1nLEBr7

Content of the neo-futuristic package (London)

Goda Verikaitė

Shooting seed bombs in Nine Elms (London)

Johanna Hammer

Collecting nettle seeds in Naujininkai (Vilnius)

Bon Alog

Chaga tea ceremony in Naujininkai (Vilnius)

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Aušra Česnauskytė and Goda Verikaitė
neofuturistic.walks@gmail.com
+31647851175
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About Aušra Česnauskytė and Goda Verikaitė

Aušra and Goda are a duo spatial designers based in The Hague, who started working together after graduating from the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague. By zooming in and out from the globalised urban landscapes to the specific micro-scale accidents, they look at the cities as playgrounds for thought experiments, which later evolves into future narratives. As designers, they find it important to cultivate collective design processes, thus they gather a community for each of their new project.

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