The Communes

Villains: Commune Founders 1967-71 America Plot: Between 1967-71 over half a million of Americans migrated from cities to rural areas in order to create their own communities.  Influenced by Buckminster Fuller’s ideas about cybernetic self organizing principles, these young adults applied this concept to the social structure of their own communities. The cybernetic self organizing [...]

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Posted: May 6th, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »

Moscow Urban Plan- No Snow

Villain: Mayor Yury Luzhkov. Former mayor of Moscow Russia 1992- 2010 Plot: In 2009 Mayor Yury Luzhkov proposed to have a winter without snow in Moscow. This was supposed to be achieved with geo-engineering. Any heavy clouds would be dealt with through the use of cloud seeding before they could reach Moscow. This was proposed [...]

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Posted: February 11th, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Metabolists

Villians: The Metabolists, a small group of young Japanese architects and designers. They inlcuded: Kenzo Tange, Takashi Asada, Kisho Kurokawa, Kiyonori Kikutake, and writer Noboru Kawazoe. Plot: In the late 1950s, a small group of young Japanese architects and designers joined forces under the title “Metabolism”. Their vision for cities of the future inhabited by a mass society were characterized by [...]

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Posted: January 2nd, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »

Skyfall

Villian/Plot: Raul Silva- a rogue agent turned cyber terrorist who is seeking to kill M for revenge for leaving him in the hands of the Chinese secret service years ago. Location: An abandoned man made island off the coast of Macau. Program: An aboandoned city, which includes high rise towers, shops, a school, mining facilities [...]

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Posted: November 12th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Biosphere 2

Villian: “University of Arizona Space Biosphere Ventures, a joint venture whose principal officers were John P. Allen, inventor and Executive Director, and Margret Augustine, CEO” Plot: “Constructed between 1987 and 1991, it was used to explore the complex web of interactions within life systems in a structure that included five areas based on biomes and [...]

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Posted: October 29th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »