Views of Planet City
Event Date: Sep 13, 2024 - Feb 14, 2025; Event City: Los Angeles, CA, US Is it possible to design a socially and environmentally sustainable city for seven billion people? Views of Planet City imagines what the world might look like if humanity were to reverse the urban sprawl, and its entire human population were to be housed inside a single, hyperdense megalopolis. Drawing on the ideas of pioneering scientists and futurists and projecting on the basis of already gestating technologies, Views of Planet City challenges dystopian visions of the cities of tomorrow and offers an alternative vision: a scenario in which urbanization at a planetary scale is not incompatible with the safeguarding of Earth’s biodiversity. The project sheds light on various aspects of the Planet City hypothesis through presentations of speculative design, design fiction, and simulation.Opening SCI-Arc Gallery: Friday, September 13, 6-8pm Opening Pacific Design Center Gallery: Saturday, September 14, 3-5pmRead the full post on Bustler
Is it possible to design a socially and environmentally sustainable city for seven billion people? Views of Planet City
imagines what the world might look like if humanity were to reverse the
urban sprawl, and its entire human population were to be housed inside a
single, hyperdense megalopolis. Drawing on the ideas of pioneering
scientists and futurists and projecting on the basis of already
gestating technologies, Views of Planet City challenges
dystopian visions of the cities of tomorrow and offers an alternative
vision: a scenario in which urbanization at a planetary scale is not
incompatible with the safeguarding of Earth’s biodiversity. The project
sheds light on various aspects of the Planet City hypothesis through
presentations of speculative design, design fiction, and simulation.
Opening SCI-Arc Gallery: Friday, September 13, 6-8pm
Opening Pacific Design Center Gallery: Saturday, September 14, 3-5pm
Read the full post on Bustler
