Saturday, May 17, 2014
Class #9 Followup: Survival
I really enjoyed the "Sea City 2000" vision of a Utopian city. I like the whole solar panels for solar energy and I am pretty sure they also have some sort of machinery to produce hydro power since the city is based on the sea. This sea city is pretty much an island which makes me agree more to this utopia. I always thought the perfect city would be on an island separated from everything else. It is just the island and the population. They have their own food source and produce their own materials. The only thing I disagree with is the speedboat and the cargo plane that connects the sea city to land cities. If this sea city is a utopia, there would be no need to have contact with land cities or other cities. Unless people want to explore outside the city. But then again, we should have everything we need on this utopia and people shouldn't want to leave the city.
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Great thoughts. I like how you're really exploring the idea,the same way you were willing to think through the step-by-step process of the Jackson Pollock painting earlier in the semester. The great thing about doing this kind of creative problem-solving in the service of "art", rather than math or the sciences or engineering, is that you give yourself permission to go to unexpected, absurd, even frightening places.That is where alot of the best ideas happen, where some of the world's hardest problems get solved.
ReplyDeleteWhether Fuller's Sear City was actually ever going to be made, he went all the way with the idea. No one could just laugh his ideas off, because he shaped them to an unassailable level of reality.
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