ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the infrastructure of the Anthropocene and details how Anthropocene Projects led ‘Raw 2’ in exploring a built environment suitable for the predicted 2 °C average global temperature rise. Together, students considered and investigated predicted impacts on their home region’s climate, ecology, and culture before designing interventions using locally available resources to mitigate problems created.
Many human-made structures and physical infrastructures will become redundant or be lost in the approaching future, so the students’ brief involved identifying and analysing these, imagining how they can be adapted or re-used as infrastructure fit for the Anthropocene, and beyond. Synthesising elements of speculative fiction, storytelling, and the radical imagination, this workshop and its outcomes challenged dystopian visions of the future and traditional architectural education as students designed infrastructures with the purpose of supporting conditions for life to thrive and flourish in 2050 despite climate breakdown.
