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Exciting news, everyone! Today in my dreadful morning class I came up with a great idea, for thesis.
It sort of relates to my original idea, but I was never sold on the urban housing angle in that. Instead, I want to design the opposite of monuments. That is, instead of things that are of the past, things that are for the future.
A simple example: imagine an aqueduct built in some cold frozen part of Canada. It doesn’t work right now. But in X-hundred years, given predicted global climate change, water will flow, and the aqueduct can be put to use by future generations.
The idea is that things may change/deteriorate such that future generations do not have the capacity to construct such a thing, but would benefit from clean water. So we build them now, knowing they’ll be needed in the future.
The most apt precedent I can think of is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Related, methods of disposing of nuclear waste in “This is Not a Place of Honor,” The Long Now, ruin value theory, The World Without Us, and how Roman infrastructure was used during the Dark Ages.
This hits all the right notes. Speculative enough for you to be creative but probable enough to be relevant.
Do it.
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quartey reblogged this from faucet and added:
notes. Speculative enough for you...probable enough to
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tyznik reblogged this from faucet and added:
actually awesome. Run with it.
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Curious about cities, patterns, design, and marginalia. I use the word 'narrative' a lot. Emmanuel is Ghanaian, and a long way from home. Nice to meet you. (@equartey, Pinterest, email, ask)
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