ddw 2018
client: dutch design week 2018
location: Paradijslaan 72 Eindhoven
exposition: october 2018
program: upon a time
What the world will look like in 100 years?
We think in the next hundred years the difference between static space, as we know now, and virtual space will fade. The buildings will become intelligent systems where technology and all functions will be fully integrated. The design will not be rigid, rooms will have no fixed dimensions, but move along in optimal form while keeping their function intact. The skin will also provide the perfect climate, regulate temperature, humidity, light, and everything that has to do with comfort, to respond to the specific activities, needs, and mood of the users. The skin will automatically regulate cooling and heat and the future skin will provide us with physical and emotional protection through a warning system, just like our own skin. The difference between human skin and architectural skin will fade.
In this future, living and working will function in the same skin. Everyone will have his own business. Hierarchy will disappear, and everyone will have a responsibility. Working together will be virtual, socializing will be virtual, and will have as much emotional value as meeting in person. The future architecture will be self-sufficient and can operate where previously no one could live and work, such as in open seas and oceans, deserts, and other extreme environments where few people can even linger, places even in the air and on the moon. Today, traditional cities are often built on fertile ground. In the future, we will have a more intelligent relationship with the Earth. There will be a natural balance between primal nature and the artificial world. We will apply our intelligence differently. We will interfere less with nature. We will create such intelligent settlements that nature will have the space to flourish again. Thus, the difference between man and animal will only increase.
The exhibition:
Upon a Time challenged people to write a story for the future. This co-writer performance creates a dialogue between past/present and future. 100 years from now, residents will have the opportunity to look back in time when they read these stories. The exhibition space was filled with a colorful pattern of lines and messages. The pattern represented an abstract imaginary landscape of choices and possibilities in a futuristic urban environment.
