The Component: A Personal Odyssey towards Another Normal

The Component: A Personal Odyssey towards Another Normal is a book by Oosterhuis that explores four decades of architectural and societal thinking, designing, building, and theorizing, leading to the creation of a parallel world called Another Normal. It proposes a dozen strategies to establish Another Normal, including ubiquitous basic income, global birthright to own land, distributed production of healthy food, clean energy, and drinking water, ownership of private data and personal avatars, autonomous electronic transportation, ubiquitous shared responsibility for clean production and waste treatment techniques, ubiquitous home delivery, working from anywhere for any period of time, and decentralized real-time peer-to-peer banking.

Format: Hardback
Length: 562 pages
Publication date: 07 December 2023
Publisher: River Publishers

The Component: A Personal Odyssey towards Another Normal is a captivating account of Oosterhuis' four-decade journey in architectural and societal thinking, design, building, and theorizing. It unfolds as an orchestrated yet non-linear series of subjects, each contributing to the creation of a remarkable parallel world called Another Normal.

Currently, Another Normal exists as a hypothetical realm, inhabited by nomadic international citizens. Driven by the urgent challenges of climate crisis, food, energy, and water nexus, and the COVID-19 pandemic, Another Normal showcases the inevitable techno-social architecture that will shape the physically built environment and the metaverse.

Oosterhuis proposes a comprehensive set of strategies to establish Another Normal, including the implementation of ubiquitous basic income, a global birthright to own a substantial piece of land, distributed production of healthy food, clean energy, and drinking water, ownership of personal data and personal avatars in the Web 3.0 era, autonomous electronic transportation, widespread shared responsibility for clean production and waste treatment techniques, ubiquitous home delivery, flexible work arrangements from anywhere for any duration, and decentralized real-time peer-to-peer banking.

In Another Normal, the organic and synthetic realms co-exist harmoniously, where a blend of robust and straightforward legislative, planning, and design rules fosters complexity, diversity, fairness, and equality. This visionary concept offers a glimpse into a future where innovation, sustainability, and social well-being converge, paving the way for a more inclusive and resilient world.

Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9788770040150