For the second half of the workshop Duncan Wilson from Arup talked about future solutions. He focused on the role of design through engineering, sustainability, and a belief for a better future which he summed up by citing SF novelist William Gibson “the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed”. Duncan introduced Foresight; a multidisciplinary team of researchers, academics, scientists, strategists, engineers, and consultants whose job is to develop plausible design. He discussed important drivers of change: water, waste, urbanisation, climate change, energy, and demographics and distributed packs consisting of information cards on the different Drivers of Change categories.
The categories were examined across societal, technological, economic, environmental, and political domains to identify potential impacts of change and possible solutions. The group spent some time reading and discussing the cards, then Duncan asked participants to write down their own views and collected the cards to be scanned and shared. Overall the session inspired the participants to expand their vision of the kinds of projects that might be possible in Leicester.
Click here to read Duncan's blog post on the event and here for the scanned notes.
This is a comment on the site - but can the hyperlink text be more of a contract to the black please. I have real problems picking it up & my eyesight is spot on.
Posted by: Ross | 11/18/2009 at 08:49 AM
Ross, sorry, Rav asked me to do this last week and I forgot. I've bolded them now - is that ok? Let me know if not.
Posted by: Sue Thomas | 11/18/2009 at 02:58 PM