Last October, the Ses12Naus Foundation launched the first edition of a research residency program aimed at visual artists, curators, and researchers from Mallorca, Menorca, and Formentera. The selected project was the case study of the Instant City, proposed by researcher and curator Raquel Victoria as part of her PhD on the physical and conceptual structure of the white cube and its developments in contemporary art.
During her residency at Ses12Naus, Raquel Victoria delved deeper into her research on the case study of the Instant City, created during the VII Congress of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), held in Cala de San Miguel, Ibiza, from October 14 to 16, 1971.
Designed as an unprecedented ephemeral city within the ICSID framework, the Instant City was a social and architectural experiment that brought together designers, architects, and artists from around the world, highlighting its collective and participatory approach. Attendees built a pneumatic city using 15,000 m² of polyvinyl chloride, organized into flexible modules interconnected through a ventilation and overpressure system. This generated an initially geometric structure that adapted and transformed over time as inhabitants designed new configurations, exemplifying experimentation with spatial possibilities.
