Whatever happened to Ordos100? is a question MovingCities receive at regular basis. After our embedded stint in 2008, we kept on regular basis tracking its rumors, gossips and attempts to resurrect its intentions. The intentions were rather ego- and megalomaniac – inviting 100 international architects to a Chinese city-under-construction, asking each of the architects to design a 1000m2 villa – while its would-be implementation turned to be surrounded by silence. In order to understand its present state, one great source of on-the-ground intel is Danish anthropologist Michael Ulfstjerne. In "Creative land grabs in Inner Mongolia | The Ordos 100 spectacle revisited" Michael Ulfstjerne writes that he was left with an impression that the whole site had been forgotten. Read more background and links.
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in pre-olympic china in 2008 there was hardly any sign of building recession. what is interesting about the on-the-ground revisit is the discovery of the change in ownership of ordos100-site. he writes that 'the transfer further included the entire collection of plans, designs, documents and licenses (and several employees) and all this with none or few of the architects ever knowing about it.' that is what grabbed my attention.
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