My initial thinking for project 2 is an extension of what was presented for project 1. Below is a summary of my current thoughts, however, I still need to modify my thinking to the 2020-2030 timeframe that has now been specified...
The community will be a refuge for the lonely & disenfranchised, namely the:
- elderly (issue: aging population)
- non-religious (issue: declining religious affiliation; reference: Alain de Botton's Religion for Atheists)
- sole dwellers (issue: fastest growing household type; reference: Gratten Institute's Social Cities Report)
- emerging poor (issue: monetary pressures)
- people who are seeking a life away from technology and urban life
[note: this next bit might be too far-fetched]
The community will be based in a semi-finished & failed housing development. Population growth and sprawl in the Northern Growth Corridor as well as Council financial pressures led to the sale of the Woodfordia site by the Moreton Bay Regional Council who were antagonistic to and non-supportive of the Woodford Folk Festival organisation. [note: sale is probably not realistic ie. 50 year exclusive lease with buyback option]
After public outcry and changes to the local government, the estate is given back to a reformed Woodford Folk Festival organisation that has been charged with the task of establishing an experimental community centred on the arts and the Woodford Folk Festival that will be a showcase for other failed housing estates around Australia (think: mcmansion estates north of Perth attached to the mining boom).
My thinking around the new community is inspired by:
- a 21st Century reworking of The Oregan Experiment (and subsequent Pattern Language) - considering the challenges of implementing change and engaging people in change
- Archigram's concept of indeterminancy - as a way of responding to future issues & challenges as the world changes
- Ambiguity & Turbulence - Mark Wigley "Towards Turbulence"
- the island of Naoshima which I visited in 2009 - art & bottom-up community management in response to environmental degradation (refinery & smelter; polluted sea & subsequent loss of income for the locals; community run 'art houses' to engage locals from the bottom up in environmental regeneration)
- ideas around freedom & control & the rule-making nature of architecture; and learnings from and visions of failed utopian & modernist projects
- phenotropic - pattern recognition - 1970s computer science concept
- the Buell Hypothesis - "change the dream and you change the city" - CLab research project in response to the foreclosure crisis in America
- venice biennale exhibition documenting vertical slum in Caracas (see video below)
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