Course duration

This course runs over course, commencing in Semester 2, 2019.

Course description

Students in this course speculate on future scenarios for the city and develop architectural responses to forecast global challenges, such as climate change, population increase, automation, waste, conflict, regime change and diminishing resources. The impetus for positing alternatives to the present is explored through critical review of the history of utopian proposals in architecture and urban design. This research grounds the formulation of future scenarios and is the basis for the design of alternative visions for future settlements. The course emphasizes the agency of architecture in effecting change.

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