FUTURE- Designing for the future

FUTURES

Designing for the future

The future human settlements in Western Culture have been argued for almost two decades on how do they can sustain themselves for a less environmental impact. In other words, in which ways can old and new cities become greener.

Some facts lie on the excess of waste on household electricity, water waste and transport (car usage), thus becoming one of the major concerns of governs to be addressed in the planned for the global future’s environmental targets. There are staggering facts claiming that almost a 30% of the C02 emissions come form cites lighting and households energy waste. It seems that there is a lot effort to have to be put into it to use it as via to educate citizens and public in general.

Thus some projects for new eco-cities, Dongtan in China, have the purpose to be designed completely sustainable, not just environmentally, but also socially, economically and culturally. These almost new projects that are coming in different ways are over all an injection to find models for new and future human settlement.

The models for new cities have a lot to do in the way they are designed for the purpose of sustainment. A lot of interest is placed in architecture and sustainable materials, strategies for a better human performance, including the way people consume, move and relate to each other, and ultimately how sustainment has to become a conscious intention for one’s life project on the overall human kind.