So in constructing a future architecture, we need to consider the limitations, or for that matter; the lack of limitations.
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Architecture can be anything, it is anthropology, it is religion, pschyology, paper planes and everything in between. It is anything we construct or invent for, with, or to ourselves. It is time.
The underlying architect of the world is a relentless, emotionless beast that is time. We cant change it stop it or speed it up. And yet it governs everything we do, feel and see as without time, on a phylosophical level, we don't exist without it, and yet when we design a future scenario, it is thinking about time that makes it possible to imagine what people do.
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| http://www.globalnomads.eu/new-york-my-love/times-square |
In a world that is truly 24hours a day, as the potential abundance of energy would create, a world without the need to follow the sun, but to create our own through the use of lighting.
So its thinking about how we could change the way we use time, through the use of changing the space, and in tern how the way we use it changes the space. The shops and streets would be occupied all the time, no rest for any built environment, and it is with this idea we need to think of more sustainable ways in building and managing our environment that we create.
It would not be possible to staff a city of today for 24 hours a day without a significant influx of labour. So as this is not realistic, shopping would change into something more experiential, and less guided by a team of sales staff but by a few. Shopping is no longer trawling through racks and racks of stock, when have a sit down and maybe having a drink as a projection of what your clothes look like on you would take up a lot less time and staff, not to mention less materials, and space.
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So a 24 hour city is more concise. It is more experiential. It is personalized and individual, while coping with millions of others doing the same thing.
So working around the clock would have to be a norm, but not an equal amount of staff as today, but the same numbers spread over a day/night cycle. And in doing this, we would need schools and other things to adapt to this modular society. No-longer all on the same page of time, we would need to foresee the potential for changing everyone to a time-scale that suits their lifestyle. That would change everything.
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No longer would the cream jobs be about money, but instead lifestyle. It would be a wealth of time that would dictate the well-off, and a mix of night hours, and a disrupted family cycle that would create the 'poor' of the future.
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Time would be the currency most sort after. Money would still play a part in the job in question, but the time in which you work is the most important. Efficiency would be brutal, and the efficiency of time is as we see today, become ever more necessary, would become dominant. We could no-longer afford to slack off at work. Minutes would be precious. Economies would be global, as there would be no-longer a separate time scale on the money markets but 24/7. But in all this as a possibility; I wonder how long it would last.
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| http://aquilakahecate.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/icarus-weighs-in.html |
Would we in gathering unlimited energy, become a culture of Icarus. Would we fly for too long too high and burn out? Would be become extinct from working ourselves to death? Would we want to be forever 'on'?