Week 4 b Future Development

This week our group developed a vague context and purpose for our future sustainable community.

We looked at the topic of
*Education through experience*

After a group discussion a closed loop sustainable community for an acceptable number of people (approximately 500 - the size of z 411) was in the short term impossible. Without input from outside manufacturers how could we facilitate technological growth? and how could we support a large scale music festival?

Instead we decided to look at problems in society today as well as what humans really need in life?
The following link gives an insight into the wasteful lifestyles that we as a 1st world country partake in as well as how societal divergence is most likely not the answer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmrx9z8T4Zo

(you-tube.com, 2012)

Once we identified that society and lifestyles had to change we looked into why we had made little progress to date? Sure we have a sustainable mindset to designs, the green star system, green energy and a number of other sustainable initiatives but we are lacking in a general societal understanding. We propose the problem is education and a lack of awareness from the general population.

awareness = education -----> experience

We started thinking that our sites future usage would be to educate the public, a sustainability camp of sorts. Groups could rotate through creating a permanent use for the site.

The following video is of Terramor Village, a current day community which has sustainability design into it. If this is what we can do now, the idea of a sustainability camp, giving people the experience oh what a more sustainable life could be like is most definitely achievable. In 50 years where could we be?

(you-tube.com, 2012)

For the festival:

Finally, in order to support a large scale festival, how could we provide for the population. The site has the space, but the food and other necessary supplies?

Well, the idea of our education through experience, as well as longer festivals such as Splendor in the Grass, gave us the idea that what if people who attended the festival lived in similar developments, and everybody brought their own food and supplies. The festival is short so packaging and waste would be a smaller issue, but the food would be fresh and not over work surrounding regions of Woodfordia.