Manifest
The Wasted-Talents-Organisation was founded in the year 2004. The first WTO action was to write down the WTO-Manifest...more
Solution Project
It's an architecture, that grows constantly, an architecture
that trickles and caws. It's an architecture that disintegrates and that
is highly explosive. It's an unrational, thriftless and dangerous architecture.
It's an architecture, that glows and reflects and sounds. It’s a
place where the deads and the living lose themselves, to find a new connection
between each other...more
Dead Globe
The Dead Globe is the biggest Monument on Earth. A place, where the dead bodies from all over the world can find their last rest. Build out of the gravestones, this Globe will grow bigger and bigger and bigger...more
Jet Settlements - A Regressive Utopia
Prognoses are possible only within groups facing equal
risks. Actuarial calculations break space down into a field of reserve
variants, completely homogenized internally –
archipelagos, populated by people facing the same risk.
The idealistic credo of the security fantasists asserting that chance
must ultimately be defeated has yielded to the practical insight that
it is enough simply to allow chance to happen somewhere else...more
From WTC to CTW
The UN Security Council – sometime centre of the global security discourse – shifted to the periphery of global politics because of its obsolete structures and mechanisms. The security vacuum that the UN never could – or didn’t want to – fill explains the emergence of the CTW...more
Voluntary Victims
This is a masterplan for a terror-secure update of New York City. Already existing infra- and socialstructures and their interfaces get contained and interweaved with each other. The danger of terror not only gets warded on a technical level but also on a symbolical...more
Old Projects
Here you find a selection of older projects like the Cloud9000, which is the conceptual design of a residential complex for the DaimlerChrysler Building Company ...more
Flying Settlement
The regressive utopia becomes a progressive science fiction utopia, where the settlement starts to fly...more
Uncovering CTW
This is a documentary about the CTW and the history of its entire developing process. It was produced 70 years after the genesis of the building and 8 years after its destruction, in the year 2077...more
Publications
Until now, WTO participated in various publications, like for example: Broke Magazine, Maputo Maputo and Five Codes...more
Peace will go away because there a too many issues
In april/may 2007WTO took part in the group exhibition "Peace will go away because there a too many issues" in the area of the Nordbahnhof in Stuttgart. Parts of this exibition will be seen in the BALKAN exhibition "Cities of beauty and peace" which will be located in the Aedes gallerie in Berlin, in summer 2008...more
Five Codes Events
The Book 5 CODES was financed with income from Igmade Club events. 5 CODES is a book that tapped the earning power of urban club culture to indicate possible escape routes from metropolitan density...more
Emergency Design
In summer 2006 WTO organized the Emergency Design group exibition in the Rocker33/Kulturdirektion, Stuttgart. The exhibited works have been the result of the WTO-summer school, which took place in the Institute Grundlagen moderner Architektur und Entwerfen at the University Stuttgart...more
Information
Wasted Talents Organisation was established in 2004 by Daniel Hundsdörfer and Daniel Mock, as a platform for young architects, artists and designers to combine the production of architecture with cultural theories, popcultural strategies and new media techniques. At present, WTO is ran by Daniel Mock. It is based in Berlin.