Week 4 - Lecture

People and Lifestyles

Are to define Characters, scenes and sets
   -they are future citizens

scenes are to demonstrate future lifestyles

If you are to design a space for two or more people?
     - I think my ideal scenario would be if some system in the world crashed (e.g. economy, environment, world governments etc. Cities don't function as they once did and they must downgrade in scale by sourcing from closer areas, no cars and vehicles in certain areas (the site) recycling road space into other space (e.g. vegetation pathways etc) . Just a scenario that would really test people, and make them do things they wouldn't think of normally, ways to make legitimate money

are they friends, colleagues, strangers, family members, community members?
     - I think if a scenario like this were to happen, family members and friends would automatically be drawn to each other. People would rather live close to friends than strangers

what do they want to do?
     - They would want to get by at first and then after a while would want to come up with ideas that would make them better off

what do they need and how can it be provided?
     - They would want to create new businesses that would thrive in this new market and would help people who might not be doing too good

Do they need to eat, drink, work, enjoy, shop, rest, separated, covered, protected, survive?
     - They would need to do all these things. But I think all these things would be very different in this new scenario to what they would be in present time.

How? ---

What do 1,000 people need? What about 10,000?
     - Not sure yet

Unprogrammed and unpredicted space (Hong Kong)
     - Maybe some of the things this group of people are doing is creating these spaces where people are suppose to come and use spaces for random things. Maybe they can't program them and they would just happen like at this bank.

Cocoon chair (Jenie Pineus), Street Museum (Yona Friedman, 2008), Fun Palace (Prince + Littlewood 1961), Centre Pompidou (Piano + Rogers 1977)

How can machines contribute?

Architecture as infrastructure?
     - People will start to use buildings for many different ideas to what they were intended for. Maybe some spaces or building are constantly changing in their use to suit what the public needs at the time. Maybe we start building infrastructure underground. No new buildings? Knock everything down and start a new type of building that will be better for everybody? Knock the whole inner city down and restructure it with thinner roads and buildings that suit the new world better?

Potteries Thinkbelt (Price 1965), Instant city (Archigram 1969), Continuous Monument (Superstudio), Wiki City (Senseable City Lab, 2007), 

Things like hair dresser on the side of the road!!!
     - This is exactly the sort of thing I was talking about. People will come up with strange but ingenious ideas to make money