Future Vision

Within the tutorial group there was discussion of how far into the future we wanted to go. We were told not to go past 100 years into the future as we might get carried away with the possibilities of 100 years of advancement. In the end we settled on 50 years, enough time for dramatic change but not too far as to seem unthinkable.

In our future we assumed that the abundant use of fossil fuels and careless living had continued. The thinning of the ozone which we have been warned about has taken a toll on the earth. Increasing the temperature by a few degrees, raising the sea level by only a few millimeters. The main issue we wanted to cover was the idea that fossil fuels were now banned.

We brainstormed on how life would be affected with a harsher sun, taking it to extreme of a dome city which was shielded completely from the raw sunlight. This came with many issues as to the impracticality of building a dome over an entire city. And that if the ozone was so thin over Brisbane itself, the rest of the world would have fried already.

We decided to toning down the scenario to moderately harsh sunlight where shading over populated areas such as Queen street were necessary. It was concluded that for this idea to be plausible retailers would invest into the shading, with the investment of safe sun shading to draw in consumers back into the CBD.

Below is a mind map of our thoughts on paper. We'll elaborate on them next week.