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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797410303321

Titolo

2050 : designing our tomorrow / / edited by Chris Luebkeman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : John Wiley & Sons, , [2015]

©[2015]

ISBN

1-118-91484-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (141 p.)

Collana

Architectural Design, , 1554-2769 ; ; Number 236

Disciplina

729

Soggetti

Architectural design

Architectural design - 21st century

Architectural design - Forecasting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"July/August 2015."

Nota di contenuto

Design Is Our Answer: An Interview with Leading Design Thinker Tim BrownLayered Thinking; Democratising Design; At Your Service; Architects Making the Jump; Move Over Humans; Embracing Complex Issues; Welcome to the Third Industrial Revolution: The Mass-Customisation of Architecture, Practice and Education; Mass-Customised Cities and Buildings; A Performance Art for Public Health; Architectural Education in the New Economy; Leadership Opportunities; After Architects: A Vision of the Near Future from SHoP; A Practice Well Underway; A Chance of Uninspiring; Climb. Stitch. Weave.; A Big Ask

Her, With the Hammer: A Mother's Letter to Her DaughterMay 15, 2050 To my daughter Frida; Always, Your ever-loving mother,Agustina; It's Not Where You're From, It's Where You're At; What Happened; Sustainable Cities; You Can Only Manage What You Can Measure; A Unique Combination of Universal Elements; Coordinated Cities; Self-Reliant Cities; Lower Carbon Means More Liveable; Oh, and Benjamin Barber was right- mayors do now rule the world; The Street As Platform: How Digital Dynamics Shape the Physical City; At a Crossroads; And Pause; A Century of Ecological Innovation

Sentient Futures: The Hydra Trilogy by Future Cities LabInterdependence: A Manifesto for Our Urban Future, Together; City as Platform; Technology-Enabled Interdependence; Urban Hives; The



Grid of Personal Power; Resilience in Numbers; Healthy Humane Buildings; Health-Scanning Technology Starts The Trend; Life-Cycle Costing Embraced; High-Performance Results; Media Network: Three Moments From the Future Post-Manufacturing Supply Chain; Here be Dragons; On Demand; Keeping Up Appearances; Empowering Communities Through Design; Heaven on Earth; El Sur Global: Future Resilient City

Embracing FluidityKnown Unknowns; Captain Nemo's Dream; AD 2015: Somewhere in the South Pacific; AD 2050: Same Location; The road to ocean recovery, 2015-50; Bricked House: How Code and Law Can Lock You Out; Looking Back on a Radical Idea: The Buranest Cooperative Rural New Town, Amhara, Ethiopia; The Buranest Charter: A Roadmap for a New Town; Proposition 01; Proposition 02; Proposition 03; Proposition 04; Proposition 05; Proposition 06; Proposition 07; The Generous City; To a Curator of Beautiful and Healthy Lives: A Note to Myself; Dear DaeWha,; DaeWha; Counterpoint: The Art of Prediction

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Sommario/riassunto

Envisioning a positive future through design  2050: Designing Our Tomorrow describes the ways in which architecture and design can engage with the key drivers of change and provide affirmative aspirations for a not-so distant future. With a focal date of 2050, this issue of AD asks when and how the design community can, should, and must be taking action. The discussion centres on shifts in the urban environment and an established way of life in a world of depleted natural resources and climate change. Featuring interviews with Paola Antonelli of MoMA and Tim Brown of IDEO, it includes contribu