Trying to predict the future is hard at the best of times, the best way i understand it to be is using events and societal norms from the past and develop them for future. It in a sense is just like the world of fashion every twenty years or so you see the same trend being revived and evolved ever so slightly from its previous time. A film clip shown in the Week 2 lecture "Metropolis" depicts an urban dystopia where Fritz Lang's vision of the future was a glorified city gone wrong, trailer below.
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So how do we create scenarios without creating science fiction, By ensuring it is a logical path to follow while maintaing a level of imagination. The Week 3 studio was an architectural fiction charette in which we were to come up with logical scenarios for assignment 1. Without having a predetermined outcome my group found it initially difficult to create scenarios leading from logical points from past and present. The approach we chose to take was starting at the end point and working backwards, we trialled a few scenarios this way and found the scenarios to be more logical.
By maintaining logical and reasonable events in the predicted future we were able to resolve any issues that arise about sustainability. We developed four main scenarios in order to test their sustainability and found the most probable one being the corporate ownership of Brisbane. I will divulge more details on this scenario as we develop it in the coming weeks.
