A complexity culture, especially in the design field, has to pass through the dissemination of an aesthetic of complexity too.
Therefore, projects that derive from concepts of complexity, even if just superficially (and so are not complex nor systemic projects) are important for their ability to spread in society an aesthetics of complexity.

Such a project can be complexcity, designed by Lee Jang Sub and hand-made produced by the Spanish enterprise Granada Design.

This project is an exploration to find a concealed aesthetic by using the pattern formed by the roads of the city which have been growing and evolving randomly through time, thus composing the complex configuration we experience today.

I perceive the city’s patterns as living creatures that I recompose to form an urban image.

This project which started from Seoul where I was born and have grown in, is expanding to other cities all over the world.

Lee Jang Sub

In this project, the complexity is a mere decorative expedient: the shape is Euclidean and two-dimensional, the function limited to pure decoration and the production-distribution-consumption system is extremely conventional. Therefore, it is not a real complex project, but the dissemination of an aesthetic of complexity (and in this case, the complexity of a territory), passes necessarily through such initiatives.

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Tags: Aesthetics, City, Complexity, Design, Fractals, Spain