Week 5 b Project Development

When considering architectural possibilities it was back to the drawing board. I think this week gave us a chance to review our future societies, starting at the finish and looking back. This week we gave our societies context a boost. Research was based around what architecture would be around in 50 years, what sort of technology would we have in 50 years and what is wrong with the world today.

• Addressing Queensland economic stability Mining -> agriculture
• Political Organisation -> Governmental body that come with an Australia wide planning act- in order to understand macro (regional) and micro (local) issues in their entirety.
• Architectural systems form a seamless fabric that has technology integrated into it.

The following article demonstrates the importance of predicting the future as well as highlighting issues such as the shift from fossil fuels and the role of technological advancement.


Endenburg, P. 2012. How the World will look like in the next 50 years. http://www.newsoffuture.com/about_the_future.html


I think this week I have adopted a optimistic approach to envisioning the future. Through my research i have become enlightened on  issues that plague society, and I now propose that the future can only be better, because if it gets any worse there wont be a future. With this thought in mind, our future sustainable community  wasn't the only aspect of our future society that had to adopt sustainable technologies. If our future was to exist society (macro scale) had to be aware, at the bare minimum of sustainable living. And with that reasoning our community (micro scale) had to push the sustainable boundaries.

In order to produce an advanced sustainable community, we had to build on current day sustainable communities as identified last week. 2020 Science promotes several technological advancements that will emerge within the decade. Smart grids, alternative energy, data integration and geo-engineering are among the more interesting topics. For more information please consult the link below.

http://2020science.org/2009/12/25/ten-emerging-technology-trends-to-watch/

Maynard, A. 2009. Ten emerging technology trends to watch over the next decade.