Saturday, August 4, 2012

Week 2 - Lecture (5)

Future Visions and Scenarios

Metropolis 1927 (Fritz Lang)
     - old movie - trailer has been revamped

Future Scenarios today - Robots of Brixton
     - 2011 RIBA Presidents medals student award winner
                        History repeats itself, first as tragedy second as farce...

I find it very weird that a video such as this would win an architectural award. I have seen a few of the other entrants and they included 'architecture' in their presentations. This didn't really seem to apart from the architectural background in the film. Obviously these were designed but I would have thought it would have to be a piece of architecture with all of the details


your role as an architect is to design an architectural entity that provides critical scenes and successfully demonstrated that it responds well to your future scenario. You will present your proposal as architectural fiction.


initial investigation
     - what if? scenarios

Urban theme. What if BBC decided to introduce London style congestion charge to the CBD in 2020 to heavily reduce traffic congestion in the area? - Congestion charging (London 2003)

Suburban. What if all retail stores in Paddington central stopped selling goods in favor of online stores but decided to keep physical presence for customer experience?

Regional. What if Woodford folk festival site were to become a self sufficient community that was to be managed and operated self sufficiently.

Virtual. What if QLD governments key strategy was to resolve urban, suburban and regional issues virtually?

TED TALK - Marcin...  - Open source ecology - Building own machinerymch cheaper

Project Ingeborg in Klagenfurt - virtual library

Project glass by google -

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