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Rendering of the Cruiser Charisma
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Useful Plant Garden & Production Facility
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Communards home in Earthhaven
Intentional Community in Tennessee, USA
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Useful Plants Nursery in Earthhaven
Intentional Community in Tennessee, USA
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Twin loo
All content © 2011 Royal College of Art
Site: Loh & Fiedler
Thanks to: T.Lynch, S.Thiel, D. Foster-Smith
The dream of self-sufficiency and sustainability has become true. Everyone is now able to produce goods, to communicate with anyone without being charged or tracked and to fulfill their basic needs without forgoing modern conveniences.
The project is based on two main opposing inspirations; research trips to learn about intentional communities like
the Amish, who neglect technological progress, and an extrapolation of current scientific research which embraces technological alteration of nature. The outcome of the project is a fantastical caravan, a nomadic module of illusionary freedom, which explores our belief in technological progress. This enabler questions our human desires for comfort and prosperity and illustrates the dream of total autarchy and the possibility of a different social, political and economical system.
The utopian idea of a different society on a micro scale is reinterpreted and brought in a contemporary context where existing and near future technologies as synthetic biology, genetic engineering, bio-printing and new form of production methods are made public to every individual rather than being owned, administrated and distributed by venture capitalists and
Project Credits
Graphic Design: Franziska Loh
Thanks to Steffen Fiedler, Stephan Thiel
