The Future City is Wonderful
Dutch Design Week 2017
Imagine a scenario where Architecture exchanges metaphors with Science, and in doing so, a shift in perspective occurs that allows for multiple ways to create future visions. As an ambassador of Dutch Design Week 2017, Winy Maas curates with MVRDV, The Why Factory, Gemeente Eindhoven, TU Eindhoven and Dutch Design Week four interventions exploring the future of cities. Products of the future city in The Future City is Wide by The Why Factory, Copy Paste, a bad ass guide for becoming a Starchitect, (W)ego, a 9 meter high, habitable installation and ICI Eindhoven: Here we come about the future of the city of Eindhoven, with workshops on the question: What do the Eindhovenaars want?
In a world experiencing dramatic climate change, declining resources, huge differences in income, extensive political/social disagreement, rapid population growth, substantial consumption of space, Design disciplines must work on these issues and provide solutions. What products can facilitate this enterprise? And what is the future city they can create? The future city is many things. Endless possibilities lie before us, too many to visualize or even count. The interventions at Dutch Design Week investigate just a few of these futures but we have already begun to explore more.
The Future City is Wide
How much can we dream for the future city? (What are the limits of possibility in the future city?)
The Future City has Memories
How can we use the architecture of the present to make better architecture in the future?
The Future City is Flexible
How can we negotiate our own architectures of desire?
The Future City is Intimate
How can the city itself encourage social connection?
The Future City is Green
What is the green city of the future?
The Future City is Up
What new perspectives can our roofscapes offer?
The Future doesn’t need Energy
What happens in a city without energy?
The Future City is Transparent
How can we share our experience of the city with everyone?
The Future City is Festive
How can we dance with our cities?
The Future City is Science Fiction (originally: The Future City is There!) What do we need to do to make these future cities possible?
The Future City is Wonderful
