FutureCityLab (ftr.ct.lb)
ftr.ct.lb is a collaboration of leading engineers, universities and scientists worldwide in or- der to elaborate a (positive) urban vision for the next generations.
This vision should help to establish the planning directions that we need to take today.
See more visions and join the discussion here ftrctlb.com
We love 2050!
Is this how the future of London would look like?
Looks like a strong class society. Makes you wanna work in a bank ;)
via chazhuttonsfsm:
FLYING ROBOT CONSTRUCTION
Yesterday I had the pleasure to see the LIVE STREAM of the TED conference in Long Beach and I must admit there were some really amazing talks all heading and proving ideas that we develop with FutureCityLab. So it´s great to see we are not alone out there ;)
The next days I will write some more posts about the impressions of the talks. Also TED was really fast in publishing some talks only. The first videos are available on youtube already today. So I would like to start with one of the talks that made it online already: Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly … and cooperate
Vijay and his team at MIT are developing little quadro-copters that act autonomously. They can remember and detect obstacles. The little robots can fly swarm formations and play music ;)
Amazingly they can also autonomously construct structures which reminds me of the Gramazio & Kohler installation “Flight Assembled Architecture”.
Watching both the videos I leave it up to your imagination how our buildings and difficult structures will be assembled in future. Probably construction will become faster and cheaper. Maybe even taller?
photo (c) François Lauginie | Gramazio & Kohler
It´s striking how this simultaneously appearing of similar ideas proves the “REMIX EVERYTHING” theory by Kirby Ferguson.
In his third part of his video manifesto he explains that ideas happen at the same time in different places and that they are inavitable and part of a common intelligence. Maybe we could even call it a swarm intelligence that we have as a society. Of course nowadays this links become just much more obvious and we can trace it much better.
Another amazing project of Vijay Kumar´s project is the outdoor version of the flying robots. Equipped with a laser scanner and a Microsoft Kinect the quadrocopter can scan and memorize unknown buildings and environments! Imagine GOOGLE buying some of this robots in future and scanning all public buildings worldwide ;)
via anotherarchitect
Imagine some cities could shrink and expand in future. Olbia as many cities in Sardegna need the capacity to host several times more tourists during summer then actual habitants.
This is the fourth revision of a team of students from Alghero.
Futuristic advertisement from 1940
see more here: http://www.retronaut.co/2011/12/bohns-visions-of-the-future-ads-1940s/
NEW YORK IN 2050
via nycedc:
New York: City of the Future
Via NY Post, check out this map of transformative projects that will reshape New York City over the next 50 years, such as the High Line and the Whitney Museum downtown, the Willets Point redevelopment in Queens, and the Applied Sciences campus to spur the economy and innovation in NYC. To learn more about NYCEDC’s citywide projects and opportunities, visit nycedc.com.
(via humanscalecities)
our working environments in future …
this is how microsoft envisions our future ..
“Watch how future technology will help people make better use of their time, focus their attention, and strengthen relationships while getting things done at work, home, and on the go.”
Futureproofing the City
From the Radical Nature exhibit at the Barbican Gallery. Listen to three different approaches to the question of sustainable living. Gerard Evenden, Foster + Partners, presents their design for Masdar, an entirely selfsustaining ‘city from zero’ in the Arabian desert, Susannah Hagan, R/E/D, addresses how to retro-fit the rapidly sprawling metropolis, taking Sao Paulo as a case study, and Bill Dunster, architect of celebrated eco-settlement BedZED, presents ZEDfactory’s current global solutions. Chaired by Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Festival of Architecture.
(via opensourcecities)
BACK TO THE FUTURE
via http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665151/design-fictions-an-eerie-vision-of-paris-under-a-watery-deluge-video
Did you know that in 1910, Paris got flooded so badly that it became, as one writer puts it, “a reluctant Venice, gondolas and all, virtually overnight”?
2019: A Future Imagined
Visual Futurist Syd Mead (“Blade Runner,” “Aliens,” “Tron”) reflects upon the nature of creativity and how it drives the future. This featurette provides insight into the fascinating mind of one of the most influential artists of modern cinema and transportation design. Mead discusses how design, mobility and creative innovation will shape future cities. [via Tribeca Film Institute]
(via opensourcecities)
In this vision I tried to pay attention to the sun protection, because in the future climate will be much hotter than now. My proposal is to make a structures with canopies witch covered by solar panels and to attach it to existing buildings. First plus in this system is that we can produce energy from the sun, the second plus is that we making inner space not so hot and thereby we are saving energy. Now we shouldn’t use cooling system or we will use it but not so intensive. One of the overriding things in my vision is the trees…It is so easy to plant and grow it. Trees can make a microclimate in area where it is located, also it is absorbs CO2 and produce oxygen. “Space elevator” – what is it? It is a connection between Earth and Space, this connection is made of nanotubes, destination is at an altitude of 300 km and there, on the top we can put the hole fill of solar panels, and it will work much more efficient than on the Earth. Also we can put vertical wind turbines along this nano cable.
a project by aershop: Darina Zlateva + Takuma Ono
video co-produced with nutshellvisions: Helen Han
visualization support: Matt Storus, Erin Kasimow, Ryan Leidner
Voice: Andrea Tzvetkov
HYDROGENIC CITY 2020 was selected as one of six finalist projects from a pool of nearly three hundred professional entries in the WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture competition. Organized by UCLA¹s cityLAB, the two-stage competition culminated in a symposium at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC that marked the first national discussion about the role of design in restoring the nation¹s infrastructure. The jury consisted of Stan Allen, Cecil Balmond, Elizabeth Diller, Walter Hood, Thom Mayne, and Marilyn Jordan Taylor.
Proposal location: Cities vulnerable to reduced water supply. Pilot project located in Los Angeles, CA.
Primary Issues: Metropolitan regions that draw water from considerable distances are particularly vulnerable to impacts of climate change on their water supply. As an integrated solution, this project envisions a network of ecologically sensitive and aesthetically compelling water reclamation centers. Each center provides a sustainable water source to the city. The mechanistic infrastructure of waterworks is transformed into an interactive and sensory series of public nodes. As mist platforms, solar-encased water tanks, urban beaches, aquatic parking lots, reflecting pools and channels, water-based landscapes become organizational moments for community building.
Imagine our streets become Museums.
Could our cities educate us while walking around?
There is several approaches in London and Moscow to hang copies of paintings from big museums on the streets. What is your opinion on this? How do you see the future?
Does anyone have more resources on this topic?
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Great project. I saw this at an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris calledDREAMLANDS. The vision of Walt Disney for EPCOT was not the trivial thing we know today but he was dreaming of a city for the future!
Have a look at the whole presentation. It´s even worth it to see it from a point of view on how to present a project also.
part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxC_a7qnGi8&feature=related
part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBNfauF6IHc&feature=related
Here is Walt Disney’s original idea for EPCOT. The film was made for the Florida Legislators so that the state would give the company the self-governing rights and permissions it needed to build its giant theme park, resort, city utopian thing. ***TRIVIA: He dyed his hair for this.
via anOtherArchitect
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he’s backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.
