Björn Severin

URBAN BLEND, Björn Severin’s spatial installation at the DAZ, is an abstractly formulated ideal city that illuminates the relationship between architecture and city. In globalized cities today, we see one of two things emerging: homogenized islands with clear boundaries or wild mixtures in a confined space. Both solutions are unsustainable : the islands promote social segregation, while the aesthetic, often noisy mixtures produce “only just architecture,” thereby neglecting urban spatial qualities. URBAN BLEND is seeking new urbanisms.