CLIP-ONTM Urbanism examines manufacturing, hacking, assembling and recycling readily available devices as an alternative way for urban upgrade and tries to depict a near future urban scenario which reimagines the urban envelope as an adaptive and generative interface. With the emergence of new urban technologies as well as maker and hacker culture, the site of production has once again been introduced into the city.

The emerging urban Homo Faber in Shenzhen, whether low-tech or high-tech, produces distinctive forms of inhabiting and occupying urban space, hinting at a potential solution to current urban problems outside the reach of traditional architecture and urban planning. By developing a patented infrastructure which allows reassembled modular devices to be clipped on, plugged in and attached to existing urban fabrics, the built-up environment is remediated by a series of community “plug and play” events in an urbanism of parts.