2050

Designing Our Tomorrow

Chris Luebkeman

• Publisher: Academy Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781118914830
• eBook ISBN: 9781118914847
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

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 contributions from thought leaders, such as Janine Benyus, Thomas Fisher, Daniel Kraft, Alex McDowell, Franz Oswold, and Mark Watts. High-profile designers like FutureCitiesLab, SHoP, and UrbanThinkTank, are featured as examples of forward thinking and innovation in the field, highlighting the need for — and possibility of — a shift in the global perspective. The discussion includes the challenges we face in creating a positive tomorrow, and the solutions that architecture and design can bring to the table.

Despite the proliferation of global crises possibly threatening human survival, our current moment provides the opportunity to write a new, positive story about our future. 2050: Designing Our Tomorrow describes how the design community can contribute to that vision by asserting positive aspirations for the worlds we create ourselves.

• See how architects and designers inspire global positive change
• Consider architecture's role in shaping cultural outlook
• Learn the key drivers of change for the built environment
• Explore the perspectives of leading experts and designers

Architects and planners over the centuries have put a stamp upon the planet through the physical manifestations of their belief structures. Today's design community faces a rising wealth gap, climate change, shifting paradigms of nationalism, and myriad other challenges. 2050: Designing Our Tomorrow phrases global issues as a design problem, and describes how architects and designers can rise to the challenge of creating a more positive future.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Copyright Page
• Editorial
• About the Guest-Editor
• Introduction 2050: Can You Imagine … ?
• Designing a Graceful Ending: A Conversation with Design Luminary Paola Antonelli
• Prejudicial Narratives: Building Tomorrow’s World Today
• Design Is Our Answer: An Interview with Leading Design Thinker Tim Brown
• Welcome to the Third Industrial Revolution: The Mass-Customisation of Architecture, Practice and Education
• After Architects: A Vision of the Near Future from SHoP
• Climb. Stitch. Weave.
• Her, With the Hammer: A Mother’s Letter to Her Daughter
• It's Not Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At
• The Street As Platform: How Digital Dynamics Shape the Physical City
• A Century of Ecological Innovation
• Sentient Futures: The Hydra Trilogy by Future Cities Lab
• Interdependence: A Manifesto for Our Urban Future, Together
• Healthy Humane Buildings
• Media Network: Three Moments From the Future Post-Manufacturing Supply Chain
• Empowering Communities Through Design
• Heaven on Earth
• El Sur Global: Future Resilient City
• Captain Nemo’s Dream
• 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
• The Generous City
• To a Curator of Beautiful and Healthy Lives: A Note to Myself
• Counterpoint: The Art of Prediction
• Contributors
• EULA