OMA & Bengler Present PANDA, An Investigation of the Share Economy at the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale
PANDA, an exhibition by OMA & Bengler, opens today at the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale ? After Belonging.
PANDA gear. Image Courtesy of OMA & Bengler
PANDA, an exhibition by OMA & Bengler, opens today at the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale ? After Belonging.From the architect. PANDA investigates the accelerating influence of digital sharing platforms, their social and political implications, and pervasive impact on the built environment. In the early 2000s, the democratic spaces of the web were greeted as an alternative to centralized commercial and social structure; in 2007, after the financial landslide, the sharing gospel gave hope to those struggling to make a living.
PANDA installation. Image Courtesy of OMA & Bengler
The boom of ?sharing platforms? provided the private sphere with powerful market mechanics, enabling the fluid commodification of life. Flexible, web-scale human resourcing drew ?app freelancers? into the gig economy ? an unprecedented economic reactivation of latent human assets. A new labor force emerged, one obliged to hire itself out for ever-smaller jobs with no safety net, as companies profited handsomely.
PANDA logo. Image Courtesy of OMA & Bengler
While sharing platforms employ organizational tools of savage power, masses are atomized ? strong-armed into unorganized negotiation.Crowds attack taxi...
PANDA gear. Image Courtesy of OMA & Bengler
PANDA, an exhibition by OMA & Bengler, opens today at the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale ? After Belonging.From the architect. PANDA investigates the accelerating influence of digital sharing platforms, their social and political implications, and pervasive impact on the built environment. In the early 2000s, the democratic spaces of the web were greeted as an alternative to centralized commercial and social structure; in 2007, after the financial landslide, the sharing gospel gave hope to those struggling to make a living.
PANDA installation. Image Courtesy of OMA & Bengler
The boom of ?sharing platforms? provided the private sphere with powerful market mechanics, enabling the fluid commodification of life. Flexible, web-scale human resourcing drew ?app freelancers? into the gig economy ? an unprecedented economic reactivation of latent human assets. A new labor force emerged, one obliged to hire itself out for ever-smaller jobs with no safety net, as companies profited handsomely.
PANDA logo. Image Courtesy of OMA & Bengler
While sharing platforms employ organizational tools of savage power, masses are atomized ? strong-armed into unorganized negotiation.Crowds attack taxi...
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