VANESSA TIMMER, DAGMAR TIMMER, AMI MURANETZ, ONE EARTH, TRELLO RESOURCES
HSBC Advertisements
http://www.hsbc.com/about-hsbc/advertising/in-the-future
Comments:
Vanessa: You might have seen these HSBC ads on the way onto airplanes - In the Vancouver Airport they line the walls as you make your way to the plane. It makes me think about placement of messages about the future. They always make me stop and think even if I don't agree with all their messages.
Christophe: This is a very nice and simple way to visualise small things of the future... we often use this kind of simulation calling it evidencing... it works quite well and easy to make!
http://www.hsbc.com/about-hsbc/advertising/in-the-future
Comments:
Vanessa: You might have seen these HSBC ads on the way onto airplanes - In the Vancouver Airport they line the walls as you make your way to the plane. It makes me think about placement of messages about the future. They always make me stop and think even if I don't agree with all their messages.
Christophe: This is a very nice and simple way to visualise small things of the future... we often use this kind of simulation calling it evidencing... it works quite well and easy to make!
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JOURNEY TO DETROIT
Sometime in the not too distant future, John wakes up in suburban Chicago on a Saturday morning and heads to a White Sox game in Detroit. Join him on a 300 mile journey to Detroits Comerica Park as he experiences the transportation options of the future: a neighborhood electric car share program, smart phone ticketing, high-speed rail, and connecting light rail. This clip is brought to you by America 2050 (www.America2050.org) as part of its A Better Tomorrow project to visualize Americas future communities and transportation systems. |
Vanessa: Why? I came across Journey to Detroit for the Future We Want exhibit and thought it would be useful to look at even though it is focused mostly on transportation.
What is missing? The pace is quite slow in the video and the focus is mostly on technology of the future.
What works? I like the day in the life nature of this that we explore the changes in the futures through the experience of someone moving through it to go to meet a friend for a sports event. It's clear that certain things are remaining stable (friendship, games). I like the way the artist creates rough sketches of the future and superimposes them on real neighbourhoods / objects. I agree with Stuart that it raises the question of how realistic these futures should be (or sketchy) and also is similar in some ways to the Sustainable Everyday Project videos (superimposing something new on something recognizable).
What is missing? The pace is quite slow in the video and the focus is mostly on technology of the future.
What works? I like the day in the life nature of this that we explore the changes in the futures through the experience of someone moving through it to go to meet a friend for a sports event. It's clear that certain things are remaining stable (friendship, games). I like the way the artist creates rough sketches of the future and superimposes them on real neighbourhoods / objects. I agree with Stuart that it raises the question of how realistic these futures should be (or sketchy) and also is similar in some ways to the Sustainable Everyday Project videos (superimposing something new on something recognizable).
FUTURE DELTA 2.0 is an immersive and interactive virtual environment that acts as a tool for communication between researchers and the public. Combining climate change modeling, socioeconomic scenario analysis and 3D modeling of real places with engaging soundscapes and imagery, we aim to make climate change science and solutions more salient and understandable to people. The project brings together climate change science and multimedia interaction in the context of emerging methods of visualisation and community engagement. With dramatic multimedia expression and virtual reality, we can perhaps move towards a deeper awareness and sense of urgency, reaching people that climate science often fails to reach, and providing clear choices for feasible actions. The project comprises a virtual reality game-engine environment where audiovisual representation and science combine to display dynamic 3D visualizations of future local climate change scenarios. Through an integrated design process we are developing an interactive visualization of alternative future climate change scenarios that are focused on the the flooding risks of the Delta municipality. The project builds on a rich history of thinking, experimentation, and production in the area of climate change, but extends it into a new representational framework fostered by the communicative power of interactive multimedia expression within a virtual world design.
This immersive and interactive virtual environment will provide an active learning process of play and exploration, more like a game than a passive experience of a linear presentation. With this approach we hope to touch those people that conventional climate science often fails to reach, empowering the participant to visualize and intuitively grasp critical scientific data, using enjoyable game strategies to reach audiences across a range of age-groups, cultures, attitudes to climate change, etc, and find out how they react. We hope to raise the profile of the issue, the role of multimedia presentations as an educational tool, the science, and possible communal actions through high visibility public venues and web access. To play game visithttp://www.futuredelta.ok.ubc.ca/
This collaborative project, employs a team of people from UBC’s Creative Studies, School of Music and The Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning with the goal to create a new synergy between disciplines that can ultimately catalyze effective communication design.
For more information on this project contact Dr. Stephen Sheppard.
Funded by: SSHRC – Insight Grant (April 2012 – March 2017)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Stephen Sheppard
Co-Investigator: Dr. Aleks Dulic, Creative Studies, UBC Okanaganhttp://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/faculty.html
UBC Researchers (CALP Affiliates): Dr. Olaf Schroth, David Flanders
UBC Students: Alicia Lavalle, Nick Sinkewicz, Malavika Mantripragada
SFU Student: Amber Choo
This immersive and interactive virtual environment will provide an active learning process of play and exploration, more like a game than a passive experience of a linear presentation. With this approach we hope to touch those people that conventional climate science often fails to reach, empowering the participant to visualize and intuitively grasp critical scientific data, using enjoyable game strategies to reach audiences across a range of age-groups, cultures, attitudes to climate change, etc, and find out how they react. We hope to raise the profile of the issue, the role of multimedia presentations as an educational tool, the science, and possible communal actions through high visibility public venues and web access. To play game visithttp://www.futuredelta.ok.ubc.ca/
This collaborative project, employs a team of people from UBC’s Creative Studies, School of Music and The Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning with the goal to create a new synergy between disciplines that can ultimately catalyze effective communication design.
For more information on this project contact Dr. Stephen Sheppard.
Funded by: SSHRC – Insight Grant (April 2012 – March 2017)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Stephen Sheppard
Co-Investigator: Dr. Aleks Dulic, Creative Studies, UBC Okanaganhttp://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/faculty.html
UBC Researchers (CALP Affiliates): Dr. Olaf Schroth, David Flanders
UBC Students: Alicia Lavalle, Nick Sinkewicz, Malavika Mantripragada
SFU Student: Amber Choo
Arnold Imaging - Light Rail
Description: The link to the video : https://vimeo.com/4360553
Most people do not know that Light Rail is a land use issue - and not just about transportation. This video shows how pedestrian friendly developments are created around station locations, making light rail a catalyst for positive change in the community. We concepted, animated and edited this video for Kansas City Public Television as part of their Imagine KC series.
Email [email protected] for more information or visit us atarnoldimaging.com.
Vanessa: What works?
This visualization works on a number of levels. It provides a compelling case as to how transportation and land use planning shape more sustainable communities.
We like the mix of animation, real people, building roof-top fly overs, text and music.
What is missing?
It is good to see certain elements being 'tagged' as solutions such as solar roofs. It would be more interesting and holistic to tag less obvious and non-technical aspects such as a 'four day work week' or take-back programs for products or redefinition of wellbeing / human fulfillment.
There is a lack of clear occupations and businesses here - does everyone work at the gym or restaurants? What about industry, hospitals, schools, agriculture...
There is also an edge that is missing in the final city - it would be great to see a darker side.
Christophe:
A very high-quality rendering animation! I agree with your comments, Vanessa, I particularly like the "real people" part of the video rather than the "still photoshopped silhouettes" that we see very often in architecture projects... And the tagging is quite obvious indeed... not bringing much new, nor innovative solutions for 2020. There is not much on the community-life either (besides the business aspect)... it's basically focusing on the light rail transportation system and how installing it transforms the neighbourhood businesses and people's daily trips (but not much examples on the changes it brought on food, health, etc.). It reminds me of a video from IDEO on New York 2030 https://vimeo.com/7287386(focusing on "clean streets")
Christophe: In addition to my previous comment, I recommend having a look at the Video Serie of Imagine KC which is exploring the green/connected/vibrant city of Kansas City in much more complete way :http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2BD05EDE56B4473C
Description: The link to the video : https://vimeo.com/4360553
Most people do not know that Light Rail is a land use issue - and not just about transportation. This video shows how pedestrian friendly developments are created around station locations, making light rail a catalyst for positive change in the community. We concepted, animated and edited this video for Kansas City Public Television as part of their Imagine KC series.
Email [email protected] for more information or visit us atarnoldimaging.com.
Vanessa: What works?
This visualization works on a number of levels. It provides a compelling case as to how transportation and land use planning shape more sustainable communities.
We like the mix of animation, real people, building roof-top fly overs, text and music.
What is missing?
It is good to see certain elements being 'tagged' as solutions such as solar roofs. It would be more interesting and holistic to tag less obvious and non-technical aspects such as a 'four day work week' or take-back programs for products or redefinition of wellbeing / human fulfillment.
There is a lack of clear occupations and businesses here - does everyone work at the gym or restaurants? What about industry, hospitals, schools, agriculture...
There is also an edge that is missing in the final city - it would be great to see a darker side.
Christophe:
A very high-quality rendering animation! I agree with your comments, Vanessa, I particularly like the "real people" part of the video rather than the "still photoshopped silhouettes" that we see very often in architecture projects... And the tagging is quite obvious indeed... not bringing much new, nor innovative solutions for 2020. There is not much on the community-life either (besides the business aspect)... it's basically focusing on the light rail transportation system and how installing it transforms the neighbourhood businesses and people's daily trips (but not much examples on the changes it brought on food, health, etc.). It reminds me of a video from IDEO on New York 2030 https://vimeo.com/7287386(focusing on "clean streets")
Christophe: In addition to my previous comment, I recommend having a look at the Video Serie of Imagine KC which is exploring the green/connected/vibrant city of Kansas City in much more complete way :http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2BD05EDE56B4473C
RICHARD REGISTER'S IMAGES
Stuart: These sketchy prototype images raise the question of when realism (in representation) matters and when it doesn't so much. May be worth discussing - what can we learn across the set of visualisations assembled?
Vanessa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2V_yny7DmI
Stuart: These sketchy prototype images raise the question of when realism (in representation) matters and when it doesn't so much. May be worth discussing - what can we learn across the set of visualisations assembled?
Vanessa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2V_yny7DmI
Author, theorist and philosopher Richard Register has been described as a pioneer of the “ecocity” movement, focused on cities whose designs are informed by knowledge of ecology. Register describes the image here as “Part of the new New Orleans rebuilt above the floods on 20 feet of elevated fill . A good solution that’s possible with pedestrian compactness and streetcars and bikes, but not possible as a scattered car infrastructure which would require far too much fill.”
Here is the description of the Solution: http://www.ecocitybuilders.org/why-ecocities/the-solution/
Vanessa: What works? Richard's hand drawings of eco-cities not only display a vibrant image of possible cities of the future but also depict the different core design elements of these cities. These design elements are both technical (shading screens over streets) and social (view corridors). Richard is inspired by natural systems in his design. They not only define these core elements but create demonstration projects in Berkeley and around the world to develop fractals of these redesigned cities which people can visit and become inspired by. They also host an International Eco-City Conference which brings together people redesigning cities from around the world, and they offer their ideas and materials freely through open source / creative commons.
What is missing? Richard and Eco-City Builders have sometimes been depicted as being overly focused on 'green' and less on the social and economic elements of a city. They address some of this in the Eco-City Standards. The hand-drawn nature of Richard's drawing may give a 'story-book / fairytale' feeling to these cities rather than encouraging the redesign of cities in their image. The images themselves are static snapshots but Richard has created images that show the city shifting over time. Some of his images are depicted from a distant standpoint; however he does detail drawings as well.
Why Richard Register's Eco-Cities? I was introduced to Eco-City Builders and Richard a number of years ago and am inspired by a few things - Richard in his book Eco-Cities raises questions internationally of what eco-cities could be. His Eco-City conferences inspire many to try out the elements of eco-cities and his drawings are whimsical pictures of cities and their elements. Eco-city Builders also builds demonstration projects -http://www.ecocitybuilders.org/what-we-do/demonstration-projects/ and identifies Eco-City Standards to define what the parameters of these future cities.
Stuart: I especially like the shifts over time - bringing in the dynamism of narrative, as opposed to static snapshot, which may conceal too much if you're trying to show a different path.
Nicole: At a visceral level, I love these sketches and are the closest I think to something that both captures our imagination and gives us practical insights into what urban living might look like. Again, thanks to the iPad effect, I want to get a more finely grained look at these, I want to dig deeper into these pictures
Christophe: This work quite reminds me of the belgian architect and artist Luc Schuiten who has been working on vegetal cities offering very poetic, vegetal evolutions of cities (Brussels, Nantes, Shanghai, etc.)http://vegetalcity.net/02.html http://vegetalcity.net/13.html
Here is the description of the Solution: http://www.ecocitybuilders.org/why-ecocities/the-solution/
Vanessa: What works? Richard's hand drawings of eco-cities not only display a vibrant image of possible cities of the future but also depict the different core design elements of these cities. These design elements are both technical (shading screens over streets) and social (view corridors). Richard is inspired by natural systems in his design. They not only define these core elements but create demonstration projects in Berkeley and around the world to develop fractals of these redesigned cities which people can visit and become inspired by. They also host an International Eco-City Conference which brings together people redesigning cities from around the world, and they offer their ideas and materials freely through open source / creative commons.
What is missing? Richard and Eco-City Builders have sometimes been depicted as being overly focused on 'green' and less on the social and economic elements of a city. They address some of this in the Eco-City Standards. The hand-drawn nature of Richard's drawing may give a 'story-book / fairytale' feeling to these cities rather than encouraging the redesign of cities in their image. The images themselves are static snapshots but Richard has created images that show the city shifting over time. Some of his images are depicted from a distant standpoint; however he does detail drawings as well.
Why Richard Register's Eco-Cities? I was introduced to Eco-City Builders and Richard a number of years ago and am inspired by a few things - Richard in his book Eco-Cities raises questions internationally of what eco-cities could be. His Eco-City conferences inspire many to try out the elements of eco-cities and his drawings are whimsical pictures of cities and their elements. Eco-city Builders also builds demonstration projects -http://www.ecocitybuilders.org/what-we-do/demonstration-projects/ and identifies Eco-City Standards to define what the parameters of these future cities.
Stuart: I especially like the shifts over time - bringing in the dynamism of narrative, as opposed to static snapshot, which may conceal too much if you're trying to show a different path.
Nicole: At a visceral level, I love these sketches and are the closest I think to something that both captures our imagination and gives us practical insights into what urban living might look like. Again, thanks to the iPad effect, I want to get a more finely grained look at these, I want to dig deeper into these pictures
Christophe: This work quite reminds me of the belgian architect and artist Luc Schuiten who has been working on vegetal cities offering very poetic, vegetal evolutions of cities (Brussels, Nantes, Shanghai, etc.)http://vegetalcity.net/02.html http://vegetalcity.net/13.html
BBC - Vision 2050 - What If? Competition (click to visit link)
Vanessa: The winning entry I've included as a youtube below is a view of the future through the eyes of a child and clearly tells the story of how the choices we make end up becoming the reality for this little girl. It's a bit black and white in its depiction but I found it to be powerful. There are other entries on the BBC competition website that are worth exploring - I'll come back to them later.
Vanessa: The winning entry I've included as a youtube below is a view of the future through the eyes of a child and clearly tells the story of how the choices we make end up becoming the reality for this little girl. It's a bit black and white in its depiction but I found it to be powerful. There are other entries on the BBC competition website that are worth exploring - I'll come back to them later.