This summer of 2008, exactly 40 years after ’68, it is time for a new leisure revolution! One that creates a symbol of liberation, knowledge, power and fun for today’s cities. Leaving behind the Urban Beach, our project becomes the ‘Urban Farm’ – a magical plot of rural delights inserted within the city grid that resonates with our generations’ preoccupations and hopes for a better and different future.

In our post-industrial age of information, customization and individual expression, the most exciting and promising developments are no longer those of mass production but of local interventions.

As cities have finally proven their superiority to their suburban counterparts – in everything from quality of life to environmental impact - they should again become our much needed laboratories of experimentation: opening our minds and senses towards better living with each other and the world.

Channeling the last utopian architectural projects about the City that examined its potential, represented its promises of liberation, and captured its pleasures – from Superstudio’s continuous monument to Koolhaas’s Exodus – Public Farm 1 (PF1) is an architectural and urban manifesto to engage play and reinvent our cities, and our world, once more.