Thursday, 30 August 2012

Telling the Story - Woodfordia 2062..

Our Narrative:
As the world continued to travel down an unsustainable path of resource depletion and harmful emissions, the effects of climate change had devastating consequences. From 2012 through to 2020 flash flooding became a regular occurrence, with weather patterns becoming more sporadic and severe with harsh droughts between monsoonal wet seasons. Still the ways of the world did not change, and the damage had already been done. As the climate changed, sea levels rose further and further until by 2030 saw 15million people displaced.

This need for survival sparked a global organisation, 'Change' to begin a quest for lifestyle change. Woodford, as advocates of sustainable living and prime geographic candidates to support a population, became one of the first areas to trial a self sustaining community.

This village succeeded in sustaining itself and a community of a couple hundred people using the surrounding areas. The community uses only the immediate area around it to support all its resource needs and uses the land appropriately. The architecture and the community develop over the years to understand the needs of temporary structures and permeability to mitigate the storms and help keep the land viable.

The Woodfordia 'Sustainable Village' becomes the education centre, teaching people for 6 months before sending them off to plant new villages following the same principles.
By 2062 we encounter the  village of Woodfordia and at this time sea levels have risen past 1m and over 40 million climate refugees are displaced. Woodfordia experiences sporadic droughts and flash floods. However the architecture has adapted and fewer, stronger, protected and multipurpose buildings exist throughout the site with other structures being temporary.

The Woodford Folk Festival still operates year after year, in recent times it has developed into a real celebration not only of musical talents but of the multiculturalism of regional south east Queensland and beyond. It celebrates the climate refugees and the impact they have had on the culture of Australia. It also educates those who attend of how the 'Sustainable Village' runs and how to live more sustainably.

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