The Selfish City_under construction

As society become more and more complex, people tend to stay underneath their settlement and hide their feelings. Hikikomori is a term used for people who refuse to leave their house, and isolate themselves from society in their homes. When the isolation between individuals and society reach in an extreme level, the selfishness of society starts visualizing, and infrastructures of the city itself start acting selfish.

In the selfish city, each building starts shaping/taking/grouping its own territory and there is no physical communication each other. However, the information distributed from the center and it is subconsciously connected. It grows like medieval cities, is self-growing, and organizes by themselves.

Since the selfish city is constructed on the mobius strip, there is no upside and downside. Each cell has a surrogate and these two pairs are interacting each other and share information.

1. Each cell tries to act for its own good.

2. Every cell is connected and affecting each other

3. But, in the end, entire system organizes by themselves.

Growing Selfishness

The Selfish City_4

The Selfish City is constantly evolving like ‘a selfish gene.’ Interestingly, the ‘selfish’ action of cities leads to ‘unselfish’ actions by organisms of society. The Selfish City grows through self-reproduction, separation, differentiation, and regeneration.

The bright side of selfishness

The dark side of selfishness

Doesn’t it look like a dragon? haha

THE SELFISH CITY

The city thinks about only for its own good. It is evolving like a ‘selfish gene’, the term used by Richard Dawkins. He also coins the term ‘meme’ for a unit of human cultural evolution analogous to the gene, suggesting that such ‘selfish’ replication may also model human culture. Just like a gene, there is no city that looks after or considers its neighbor; they only think about themselves.
In the information society of the twenty first century, the most valuable resource will not be iron or oil but ‘culture’. Everything you can see in present days is inherited from the past. In this sense, the city itself is an accumulation of culture. The fundamental concept is the meme, analogous to the gene in biological genetics, an element of culture that can be the basis of culture variation, selection, and evolution. It grows like trees, branches to branches.
The city will absorb everything towards the center, and will grow by doing it repeatedly. Interestingly, the ‘selfish’ action of cities leads to ‘unselfish’ actions by organisms of society.