Constant’s New Babylon creates a society for the homo ludens, a network of sectors elevated above the existing city which allows the creative man to ‘play’
perpetually, having been liberated from any work by automation of all utilitarian, goal-oriented activity.

The future of the university lies in an analogous liberation.

Technology frees the scholar to pursue his desires—to discover, inquire, progress, and create. It grants him free rein of his most human quality in an unrestricted landscape.

Elevated off the ground, the structures of Nouveau Philadelphia remove themselves from the required rapid circulation and service entities, enabling a slow and perpetual flux that calls for malleability of intensified internal spaces, which respond to the objective of the user. Work and play become indistinguishable. No place exists whose sole duty is transport; or, rather, every place has the capacity for transition, and every place has the capacity
for station.

Research is exploration.

Nouveau Philadelphia is a world that not only fosters curiosity and innovation, but requires it.