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Call for Submissions for Monu: Magazine on UrbanismEver since our cities became areas of continuous interaction and ever-expanding exchange the term "exotic" - understood as counterpart to the "local", the "native" or even the "authentic" - has become a rather vague term.
Who - in actual fact - is still able to distinguish between the one and the other, between the exotic and the local?
Who would be interested anyway?
Yet, once again, there seems to be an increasing fascination with, and interest in, importing and seeing certain urban elements from other parts of the world in our own cities.
There are, apparently, more Japanese people visiting the fake Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas than the original in Paris.
What makes this displacement so interesting today?
MONU9 investigates what the term exotic actually means for our cities and how exotic urban elements appear, what they look like, and how they may influence our cities.
In any case, exotic urban features appear more and more as an inexhaustible source for progressive urban design ideas.
When the exotic influenced the appearance of the "Art Nouveau" at the end of the 19th century, it might today have the power to create an "Urban Nouveau".
MONU invites daring concepts, mind-stretching speculations and ground-breaking new strategies about the topic "Exotic Urbanism" for next issue.
Submissions may be essays, photography, art projects or design concepts that trigger the term "exotic" in the urban context.
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