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- 0.1 Stage One
- Architects Without Borders Canada
- Carol Kleinfeldt: What kind of town do we need to support such industrial ventures?
- Colley Valentine: an International Energy Campus
- F.B.D.: Aiding Transience
- Fuller / Hatherley / McPherson: Equilibrium
- Low / Ong: Heading Towards Green Cities
- Manering / Courtney: Athabasca Sands
- O'Donoghue / Suen : a prototype for mining colonies off-planet
- Todd / Rabyniuk : architecture of change in a contested landscape
- Townsend / Semeredi / Ng: Solution without Pollution
- f(x)
- white: living lightly
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Lake McClelland: prototype for autonomous, self-contained living: air, water, food. This is the Biosphere 2, also something like research stations in Antarctica and the International Space Station all combined.
Will it come to this because our last 500 years of resource exploitation has put us on a path leading to inevitable disaster, or will we eventually get smart, after losing great numbers of the world's population through lack of food and water, forcing us to live within our means as a species here on earth?
f(x) puts the decline in oil demand, which may or may not be coincident with oil supply, at about 20-30 years from now. Carol Kleinfeldt indicates that nano-technology already offers solutions to the redundancies charted by f(x).
Planets and moons have long been seen as potential colonies of earth, but the plans and timelines actually in place for this listed by O'Donoghue and Suen comes as something of a shock. Did we learn nothing about colonisation from the 19th century?
I see this proposal as an apocryphal instruction not to be forced to go to the moon.
Colonizing the moon is actually really important work! We may need it soon as a life raft, if nothing else.
Space station research is probably a more practical comparison for understanding issues related to short-term and isolated, remote work dynamics. It does not appear that we are anywhere close to being there however and no closer to solving our home issues
Liza +Travis