Future Scenarios

After the lecture material, my mind went to two different possibilities; the logical future that I have, to some extent, been taught to envisage is a world of growing, needing populations, increasingly packed cities and unstainably sprawling suburbia, and the fictional future that has changed little since the 20's.


I get the impression that we are lead to create this "Architecture Fiction" for a time and place much more abstractly in the future and much more different to the city we know today. This fictional 'future' as we imagine it seems to have changed very little from as far back as the 20's in "Metropolis".

(Szondy 2012)

Or even the future Frank Lloyd Wright also imagined in the Broadacre City. Is our future one of building up? Of absolute urbanism to fit into the cities we so desire to live in?

(Giulietti 2011)

Further into the future, will we be in cities as we know them? The the designers who dare to dream of a world drastically overpopulated, overcome by the ocean or completely obliterated world which leads us to turn to this 'inevitable' future solution out at sea.

(Meinhold 2012)

 Architectural fictions exist of these post-apocolyptic worlds out at sea.

(Wikia 2012)

 I think there is great importance in trying to solve the problems we have designed ourselves into with Brisbane in particular. A balance between predicting the future of the city and then mitigating the affects of the inevitable both growth and pollution of the city.

 

References:

Giulietti, D. 2011. "What If?". Accessed August 2, 2012. http://urbdezine.com/2011/12/10/what-if.

Meinhold, B. 2012. "Noah's Ark is a Sustainable FLoating City for a Post - Apocalyptic World." Accessed August 2, 2012. http://inhabitat.com/noahs-ark-is-a-sustainable-floating-city-for-a-post-apocalyptic-world.

 Szondy, D. 2012. "Skyscraper World". Accessed August 2, 2012. http://davidszondy.com/future/city/skyscraper.htm.

Wikia. 2012. "Future". Accessed August 2, 2012. http://future.wikia.com/wiki/Scenario:_War_for_the_worlds