我们如何才能将自己的居所打造成理想中的家？「为什么工厂 The Why Factory」的最新出版刊物《(w)Ego：高密度下的梦想家园》探索了参与式的设计过程，并将研究结果应用于住宅设计。让居民表达自己的居住愿望和期待，彼此探讨和协商，并将其作为住宅设计的参考。(w)Ego以游戏开发的形式，尝试在设计中满足居民的意愿和建议，将每个居民所描绘的梦想家园转化为空间需求。通过这种方式，构筑一个真正以人为本的全新住宅模型。这本书汇集了荷兰代尔夫特理工大学「为什么工厂」学生团队的研究成果，以及与「为什么工厂」合作的芝加哥工业大学、墨尔本皇家理工学院、耶路撒冷 Bezalel 艺术与设计学院的学生共同进行的研究成果。

How can we turn every dwelling into a desirable home? The latest book by The Why Factory, (w)Ego: Dream Homes in Density, investigates participatory processes and applies them to housing design. These processes establish a negotiation between the desires of each of the residents of a housing block and help determine the design of their units. (w)Ego explores these negotiations through the development of gaming processes that leverage the specific dreams of each resident and transform them into spatial requirements. This way, novel housing typologies emerge within a truly human-driven, dreamy architecture. This book brings together research undertaken by students from The Why Factory at TU Delft and students from IIT Chicago, RMIT Melbourne and Bezalel Academy Jerusalem who collaborated with The Why Factory.

为什么我们必须生活在鸟笼般千篇一律的住宅楼中？

为什么我们的居住空间总是一成不变，价格昂贵但又没有足够多的选择？

如何能够自由地定义自己的空间？

如何改进我们的居住环境？

建筑能够容纳每个人的个性和需求，构筑一个有更多选择和责任感的未来世界吗？

The (w)Ego Game 图片 Image © The Why Factory

(w)Ego项目研究了在高密度的城市中，设计和建造理想住宅的自由度和可能性。它探索了将使用者需求融入设计过程的潜力，在建造和改善住房和城市发展的过程中优先考虑居民的意愿。通过与街区和周边环境的协调与协商，赋予了每个人在高密度的世界中实现自我个性的可能性。简言之，在(w)Ego设想的世界中，自由、想象力与责任和协作相得益彰。

(w)Ego investigates the freedom to design and build our dream home in the dense city. It explores the potential of desire-based design processes, prioritising residents’ wishes in the process of constructing and adapting housing and the city itself. It expands the possibilities of individual fantasy in a dense world by means of negotiation with our neighbours and the environment. In short, freedom and imagination meet responsibility and collaboration.

The (w)Ego Game 图片 Image © The Why Factory

个人「Ego」逐渐变成众人「w(Ego)」。从畏缩到好奇，从僵化到适应，从egoism到(w)Egoism，(w)Ego探索并推动住宅建筑的极限，寻找新的高密度生活方式。

Ego becomes(w)Ego. Moving from fear to curiosity, rigidity to adaptability, egoism to (w)Egoism, (w)Ego explores and pushes the limits of domestic architecture, looking for new ways to live together in density.

图片 Image © MVRDV

 (w)Ego 概念住宅装置

(w)Ego Installation

《(w)Ego》是「为什么工厂」“未来城市合辑 (Future Cities Series)”的第十三本出版刊物，“未来都市集合”系列丛书已出版过以下作品：《The Why Factor(y)》(2010)、《Visionary Cities》(2019)、《Green Dream》(2010)、《Vertical Village》(2011),《Hong Kong Fantasies》(2011)、《City Shock》(2012)、《We Want World Wonders》(2016)、《Barba》(2015)、《Absolute Leisure》(2016)、《Copy Paste》(2017)、《Poro City》(2018)和《Towers of Choice》(2019) 。

(w)Ego is the thirteenth book in The Why Factory’s Future Cities series, and follows The Why Factor(y), Visionary Cities, Green Dream, Vertical Village, Hong Kong Fantasies, City Shock, We Want World Wonders, Barba, Absolute Leisure, Copy Paste, PoroCity, and Towers of Choice.

「为什么工厂」已出版的学术专题书册合辑

Future Cities Series

《(w)Ego: 高密度下的梦想家园》将在巴黎ArchiLib画廊举办的MVRDV和Why Factory联合策划的《行动！Agir!》展上发布预览，展览将于6月10日向公众开放。官方新书发布会将于6月14日晚19:30在荷兰新研究所 (Het Nieuwe Instituut) 的屋顶平台上举行。

A preview presentation of(w)Ego will be on show at Agir!, the upcoming exhibition of the work of MVRDV and The Why Factory at Galerie ArchiLib in Paris, which opens to the public on June 10. The official book launch will take place June 14, 19:30, on The Podium, on top of the roof of Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.