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WORLDBY activities

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WORLDBY - Radically Rethinking Design and the World - RRDW

-workshops and lectures

We are caught in a unique situation on Planet Earth right now – possibly the biggest challenge ever. The coming years will, whether we like it or not, be full of dramatic changes and it will happen at a pace maybe never experienced in the history of the Planet before.

Its now “common knowledge” that global warming is “here to stay”. What do we do? We change of course and innovate as we have always done – or do we? Just now we have due to many factors, one of them being the technological development, a possibility of creating the most amazing world where humans and all fellow citizens can live in incredible living structures, realizing fantastic dreams and having unbelievable lives. But is that what we are doing?

“The WORLDBY design project” – is an inter active experiment in how to get us all engaged in envisioning, designing and possibly developing images and real projects for a “new world”.

“WORLDBY-for real” - is a kind of city, a living structure and yet just an example or rather an experiment in new thinking and doing. The intention is that anyone can come with inputs to WORLDBY and publicize the visions on the WORLDBY website. Next summer workshops with building actual components for a potential WORLDBY structure will happen at Micro Macro Monde in France (more later about these activities).

“The WORLDBY workshop” is a forum where models for how to live in a WORLDBY-world could look like – a world where fx. Garbage does not exist, abundance of food, water and energy is available, people do what they want etc….a kind of perfect world or ???. The workshop will explore how its possible to envision and design radically different ways of living, working, consuming etc using the WORLDBY - the vertical village as an example.

The output of the workshop will be shared with the world on the net.

PRACTICALITIES:

The workshop can be offered to people without any skills in design, art and architecture as well as to professionals. Max. 60 participants. Workshop length min. 1 day.

For further information please contact Niels Peter Flint directly at npflint@exdl.com

The next workshops / lectures:

-United Arab Emirates - Sharjah, The American University, November 9th 2008 - LECTURE in relation to exhibition held at Sharjah Museum of Art where a WORLDBY installation will be on display.

-Mexico - Last week of February 23rd to 28th 2009 - WORKSHOP