the panels

The following four panels were designed as part of the 'Sydney Future Visions Exhibition' at Customs House, Sydney.

Preceding the film, the panels initiated the concept of an associative future vision, collaged of a selection of 4 assumptions, that read together provide a slice of the future.

They are being exhibited at Customs House, Sydney, from 19 March - April 13.

Sydney Future Visions Exhibition
Customs House Foyer and Level 2, Circular Quay
Public display: 19 March - 13 April 2008 (Free Admission)
RAIA National Architecture Conference display: 10-12 April
The exhibition is kindly supported by the City of Sydney, Metropolis Congress 2008 and Customs House.

Assumption #7 : Post-cartographic Complexity Net

Every object, environment, biological and artificial life form will continuously upload to the info grid

"A soft beep. Energy toll. My car was switching zones. I had a stack of patents to look through, solar tech mainly. Too tired. I closed my eyes and tried to sleep, moving through my old neighbourhood always made me nostalgic. I missed the noise. I missed the haze of hydrocarbons. I thought about calling home, decided against it and laid back to watch the spidery lattice of data as it rolled across the clouds. A silent sea of information, feeds from the equatorial sun belt and some regional stuff too. The road sliced though the remedial estates and campuses in wide arc, the great inland archipelagos lay ahead. Another beep. The sky flickered with life."

Assumption #28 : GPI_Global Planning Intelligence

All urban decisions will be tracked, analyzed, and allocated via a pervasive systems intelligence

Let me get this straight. You’re telling me the technology is unproven
Yes
The distribution is still unresolved
Yes
And this gamble will cost billions of dollars
Yes
What, all this for clean air?
Yes
….Let’s get it right then

They said it was impossible
We said it was worth it

General Solar
Everywhere you want to be

Assumption #87 : Architects Hacking for Spatial Freedom

Architects will hack the GPIS planning simulations to subvert the regime of environmental averages

"It was raining shards of bio-glass. White noise sounded out over the archipelago. The Global Planning Agent crashed and immediately the control blanket dimmed.

On the fourth day of the second week, sitting here surrounded by fading spectres and apparitions, I turned to face her.

You look different.

A broad smile broke across her face. This was the future but nobody noticed.

Repair agents were at work, bursts of static danced around the filaments of infrastructure. The hacking had been extensive, GPA was unprepared.
The timing of things was out. There was nothing to do but play at happiness.
We had left beautiful ghosts."

Assumption #34 : Balkanization of Energy

Islands of integrated energy technologies will sustain suburban regions

"Now we are at home. A lush lawn of photosynthetic thread sways as it tracks the sun behind clouds. Tree leaves recalibrate. You push the door open. Light streams inside, photons bounce off the dusty walls. I can hear you humming something unfamiliar. We walk around to the back. A field of slender silver towers in the distance. Their glistening metallic scales harvesting the great flows of light.  A solar barge drifts slowly into the light; the suburb is sunless for a moment. We sit here and wait."