Summary:
What do I mean by each of these:
Epic City Housing - Lovable city life where everyone lives the dream.
Scalable Tech - Humanity's biggest lever for improving life on Earth.
Walkable, Bikeable, Electrified Cities - High-functioning, low-carbon cities.
21st Century Civilisation Building - Peaceful, prosperous civilisations all over the world.
Product Design - Everyday pleasures that spark joy.
Wealth Equality - Ensuring that all of humanity is brought along for the ride.
But anything important worth reading is worth reading twice. So, for the sake of some verbosity and visuals to paint the picture:
How else do you expect we do anything necessary ~9 billion humans?
Netherlands. Sweden. Enough said.
Kind of like.. a solarpunk Roman Empire. Gardens of Babylon in the sky, while we’re at it. (Seriously, why did we stop building life that?!)
I know, I know, architecture and sculpture has it’s place. But product design is what makes everything so much more than just art.
Well yes, we need to be serious about this one.
Just like every company needs to factor in sustainability, I believe every business and government can choose to be cognisant of the increasing wealth inequality of our times.
(Hoping to make Bernard Hickey, Ray Dalio, and Thomas Piketty proud with my newfound passion for economics! Didn’t see that on my bingo card.)
Last but not least, where it all started:
Manifesto / master plan coming together as we speak.
Ok sweet. Now you know what House of Tech is all about. Time to get onto this ‘ol housing crisis. A housing crisis, unless.
Read.
Write.
Design.
Build.
Let’s go.
-Annelies Powell