Theme Brainstorming...

Urban - Restricted use of cars in the CBD

 

This carless city might include:
• An improved public transport system
• Re purposing of the majority of current car parks
• Changes in access of main roads (zoned to different times for different purposes)
• A decentralisation of the city - for walkability
• City Tram Network 
• Walkable/Rideable City 
• Lower emissions and cleaner air
• More physical activity and healthier people
• From car storage > bike storage
• Decentralised outer hubs
• TOD's all interconnected

Design possibilities:

• What happens to parking complexes?
• How are new buildings different?
• How do entrances to building interact with users on ground level
• What happens to the underground car parks of current buildings?
• How is it all connected to suburbia

Suburban - sustainable retail experience online retail with in-store user experience

What gets done with all the retail spaces if items are no longer directly purchased from them?

• It becomes user focused, getting them to enjoy the experience.
• Savings on transport and cost and embodied energy
• Making a real 'experience' of how you choose things

Regional - a self sustaining community

 
 What makes it self sustaining? In what areas is it autonomous?

• Finance
• Food
• Water
• Power
• Recycling/Waste
• Manufacturing
• Agriculture
• Socially

What purpose does it provide?

• An isolated town functioning on their own
• Acting as an exemplar
• Acting as a point of education to the outside world
• Creating a point of interest =  tourism =  funds = more teaching

Virtual - solving the problems virtually

 

  The existence of 'immaterial capacities of communication'

• The transfer of data
• The transfer of knowledge
• An architect using this?
• The individual using it

Do we take the idea of our democracy further and all have some way to pool our ideas which can then filter and give a real majority opinion. A central database. "Open Source Governance".