Designing Tamara

VISUAL CONVERSATIONS ON URBAN FUTURES

Designing Tamara.

Welcome to the year 2100


Welcome to the Alternate Reality Mesh.



Welcome to the Centre for Urbanism Prototyping.




THINK OF THE CITY AS YOU KNOW IT.

WHICH ‘URBAN OBJECTS’ DO YOU WANT TO: CREATE | AMPLIFY | DESTROY

Time: 5 minutes

1

‘urban objects’

“smaller than a building, bigger than a phone”

(Dan Hill)

INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO YOUR NEIGHBOURS.

WHAT IS YOUR NAME, AGE, CITY OF ORIGIN, AND JOB?

WHAT ARE YOUR URBAN OBJECTS TO CREATE/AMPLIFY/DESTROY? (PUT YOUR CARDS ON THE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN)

Time: 5 minutes

2

3

DESIGN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD. ABOUT 100 PEOPLE WILL LIVE IN IT.

MAKE SURE YOU USE ALL OF THE URBAN OBJECTS YOU CREATED, THOSE YOU WANT TO AMPLIFY, AND NONE OF THE ONES YOU WANT TO DESTROY.

Time: 20 min

4

USE THE FORM TO FIND AN ADJECTIVE, A VALUE, AND A GROUP OF INHABITANTS FOR YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD.

THEN, CREATE THE MICRO-MANIFESTO

Time: 5 min

“a __________ neighbourhood of ____________

designed with _____________ in mind”

adjective values

people

5

LET’S GET THE NEIGHBOURHOODS TOGETHER AND CREATE THE CITY OF TAMARA!

6

BUT A CITY IS NOT JUST AN ARCHIPELAGO OF NEIGHBOURHOODS.

HAVE A LOOK AT YOUR GOLDEN ENVELOPE AND EMBRACE THE CHALLENGE! (ONE ENVELOPE EACH NEIGHBOURHOOD)

PLEASE, ONE PERSON PER GROUP AT A TIME TO WORK ON THE MAP

Time: 20 min

Thank you very much_

now let’s get back to reality.










Welcome back to year 2016

“Your gaze scans the streets as if they were written pages: the city says everything you must think, makes you repeat her discourse, and while you believe you are visiting Tamara, you are only recording the manes with which she defines herself and her parts”

(Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities. 1972)

Model of city for the film

Logan’s Run - 1976

Bel Geddes, Futurama -

1939

Nick Dunn, Paul Cureton,

Serena Pollastri (2014)

“A Visual History of the

Future”

UK Government Office for

Science

What would be ways of building visions and scenarios of urban futures that articulate the plurality, differences, and conflicts that characterise the city, rather than being based on consensus and internal coherence?

What would be ways of building visions and scenarios of urban futures that articulate the plurality, differences, and conflicts that characterise the city, rather than being based on consensus and internal coherence? Utopie,

1968-197X

What would be ways of building visions and scenarios of urban futures that articulate the plurality, differences, and conflicts that characterise the city, rather than being based on consensus and internal coherence? Datapolis (ODI)

2016


Processes and artefacts that utilise visual language to enable or document voices imagining and debating possible futures for life in the city



An Atlas of

Future Imaginary Cities



An Atlas of

Future Imaginary Cities


question assumptions

“make possible what appears to be impossible” (Lefebvre)

explore truly radical solutions

bring marginal voices to the conversation.

Thank you.Serena Pollastri - ImaginationLancaster

[email protected] @sere_miru