Readings..

Archigram

Sadler, S., 2005. Beyond Architecture. In. Archigram: Architecture Without Architecture. pp90-138. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

This excerpt was very long winded and hard to get through but it had some really interesting pieces. There seems to be an inherently similar way that we imagine our future. When we try and envisage the future, time and time again our assumptions don't meet reality. I see that as a bit of a challenge for this semester. Then other parts of the article showed that some designers and thinkers that understood the direction design was heading in.

Stories from the First Transnational Traders

Revell, T., 2012. 88.7. Master of Design Thesis Project. London: Royal College of Art. Accessed August 3, 2012.http://www.tobiasrevell.com/88.7a.html.

I found the thought of 'Stories from the First Transnational Traders" quite an interesting one, to me, it spoke of the globalisation that we seem to be heading towards, and a future of further economic competition. While I didn't understand the concept completely of how being able to travel through all time zones benefited the economy, the story raised some really interesting points. The lengths people are willing to go to for money and for wealth, I have often wondered where that will continue to lead us. The author created a completely believable future, with events happening and specific dates for China's collapse.

The story of 'New Mumbai" also on the website creates an almost believable, yet completely sci-fi future scenario of biological creations. These stories seem completely believable, maybe just because of the skill of the writing and the quality of the artifacts created. 

This reading has intrigued me to think about the future I'm going to create for the assignments, with specific events and milestones in history. With the images that this article created I realised that if I follow through with my architectural fiction and go the distance with images such as these it will make it so much more believable and successful. I need to consider and understand every aspect of how everything works in my 'architectural fiction' just like any successful fiction.