Interview with The Father of Vertical Farming
According to the Vertical Farm Project, by the year 2050 the earth’s human population will have increased by around 3 billion, and 80% will reside in urban centers. The project estimates 109 hectares of new land (about 20% more land than the area of Brazil) will be needed to grow enough food to feed them, if traditional farming practices continue...
New Breeds of Cities – Fictional Solutions to Future Problems
Urbanization: The Rise With the rise of Urbanization, cities will soon face the issue of accommodating an influx of citizens. This will result in increased housing developments, and for land-scarce urban centers, increase in high-rises. After all, if a city cannot or will not expand outward due to any variety of reasons, the only way...
Now and When: Harnessing Rising Sea Levels
Now and When, an exhibition curated by John Gollings, Ivan Rijavec and Craig Bremner, was Australia’s response to the 2010 Venice Biennale theme ‘people meet in architecture’. The exhibition was composed in two parts. The first was a photographic essay ‘NOW’ by esteemed Australian photographer John Gollings documenting the catastrophic, yet strangely beautiful reality of ‘digging up the west to build...
Building The Bionic City: The Ultimate Smart City
Albert Einstein once said, “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Leonardo da Vinci exemplifies the pertinence of Einstein’s comment, for as an illegitimate child da Vinci was exempt from receiving a formal education and thus self-taught; learning much of what he knew from his personal observations of the natural world....
Homo Neutralis: A Sustainable Urban Species
Recent years have seen a flurry of speculation as to the form and structure of a city able to sustainably support our future needs. But is such speculation just wasted, wishful thinking? Emerging research in the fields of human evolution suggest that a new chicken and egg debate is forming in relation to our urban...
Natural Disasters in 2050 – Episode 1: Floods
With city-wide flood disasters predicted by 2070, it has become ever more paramount that humans hone their abilities to accurately predict and counter-act the dangerous forces of nature. Most of us are beginning to realize that if we treat the world as well as we possibly can, as a collective unit, the devastation will be...
