"Designers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the US are asking visitors to imagine the future, but with a view to addressing many issues dogging the world now. Part of a major exhibition called Designs for a Different Future, the show tackles themes such as consumerism, sustainability and personal privacy. Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports from Philadelphia."

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[Movie: ©Al Jazeera]

"What will the future look like? That’s the big question posed by a new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Eighty designers from around the world have put their imaginations to work, leveraging both anxiety and excitement over the possibilities offered by innovation and new technology. Jeffrey Brown reports."

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[Movie: ©PBS News_American public broadcast service]

"Museum curators and mindful millennials seek visions of a “clean,” sustainable future. In Philadelphia, designers offer ideas to provoke."

[Quote: The  New York Times - Arlene Hirst]

"How does the future make you feel? Journey through an electrifying landscape of designs that respond to the future in surprising, ingenious, and occasionally unsettling ways, in "Designs for Different Futures."

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[Movie: © Philadelphia Museum of Art]

"The Designs for Different Futures exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art collates projects to tackle some of today's biggest issues."

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[Quote: Dezeen - Kristine Klein]

"While most design shows concentrate on specific objects and their formal qualities, this one is about ideas, processes, and the issues that they raise, especially as technologies that looked to be world-saving a few years ago — the Internet and social media, or DNA testing — now seem like gateways to dystopia."

[Quote: The Philadelphia Inquirer - Thomas Hine]

"Direct to media UV printing directly to Aluminium and a four inch flat 'Dibond' substrate creates a whole new dimension to the traditional print and mount, with the monochrome image produced for the major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum taking on a cool metallic aesthetic with incredible depth and definition."

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[Title photograph credits ©Metro Imaging_London]

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[Movie: ©Metro Imaging_London]

"From moon gods to lunar chariots pulled by geese, an exhibition at the National Maritime Museum shows our love of the rock has taken many forms."

[Quote: The Times - Tom Whipple]

"This closing chapter of the exhibition looks at the contemporary motivations for moon travel, leaving visitors to contemplate whether the moon will become a theatre for exploitation and competition or remain a peaceful place for all humankind."

[Quote: Londontopia - Laura Porter]

"Marking the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s ‘small step’ and published to coincide with Royal Museums Greenwich’s exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, a new book, The Moon: a Celebration of Our Celestial Neighbour explores people’s fascination with Earth’s only natural satellite."

[Quote: The Guardian]

"The moon is the celestial body of the moment, what with the 50th anniversary of the moon landings, and blanket retrospectives of the event. But for a thoughtful account of the way humankind has related to the moon over time, make for Greenwich, where in an aptly darkened space, the Maritime Museum illumines the relationship between us and our astronomical neighbour."

[Quote: The Evening Standard - Melanie Mcdonagh]

"It is thought to have driven men to madness and controlled women's menstrual cycles. It's been anthropomorphised as a goddess on a flying chariot led by an antelope, and conspiracy theorists still believe we've never set foot on it. It is of course our only natural satellite, the moon."

[Quote: The Londonist - Tabish Kahn]

"In case you hadn’t noticed, this Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. And for Kevin Fewster, outgoing director of Royal Museums Greenwich, the “obvious place” to commemorate mankind’s giant leap is the National Maritime Museum. ."

[Quote: The Telegraph - Alastair Sooke]

"Discover more than 180 objects alongside some artefacts from NASA’a Apollo 11 mission, which all played a part in the biggest milestone in human history.."

[Quote: Visit London]

"The final section asks who owns the Moon, and looks ahead – a little uneasily – at future projects planned by China, India, Japan and Israel as well as the US, and interest from corporations in the Moon as a potential mine of valuable resources. A return to the planet by humans is predicted in the next 15 to 30 years. In the meantime, this exhibition will do nicely."

[Quote: TimeOut- Holly Williams]

Design Tutors: Pascal Bronner, Thomas Hillier

Technical Tutor: Martin Reynolds

Computing Tutor: Sean Allen

Publication Design: Mike Aling

"the 2018 laka competition gathered over 130 entries prepared by 200 participants from more than 30 countries, responding to the topic of ‘architecture that reacts.’ seeking innovative ideas that go beyond typical building solutions, this year’s projects featured architectural, design, or technological solutions capable of dynamic interaction with their surroundings.."

[Quote: designboom - sofia lekka angelopoulou]

"Laka has published the results of the 2018 edition of their annual Architecture that Reacts competition, focusing on “architectural, design, or technological solutions that are capable of dynamic interaction with their surroundings.” This year saw 200 participants from more than 30 countries submit 130 designs, following an interdisciplinary approach reaching beyond typical building solutions."

[Quote: archdaily - Niall Patrick Walsh]

"The winners of the 2018 Laka Competition have been revealed, collecting an exciting array of strange and innovative conceptual designs that focus on providing architectural or technological solutions to current environmental or social problems."

[Quote: NEW ATLAS - Rich Haridy]

"From Tidal Terrains to a Platinum City to a Cactus Pavilion..."

[Quote: Justine Testado]

"The popular-as-ever Laka Competition challenges architects, designers, and students to send their most inventive ideas of “Architecture that Reacts”, meaning architectural, design, or technological solutions that are capable of dynamic interaction with their surroundings. This year, over 130 entries were submitted from some 200 designers representing 30 countries."

[Quote: Archinect - Justine Testado]

"Over 130 entries prepared by 200 participants from more than 30 countries were given thorough consideration by the international panel of Judges."

[Quote: _Laka.]

“You have created a step-change in our exhibition style that was very much noticed by Chatham House leadership. It was a pleasure to work with you.”

[Audio credits ©VoxPop]

[Title photograph credits ©Suzanne Plunkett 2018_Chatham House]

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[Quote: VoxPop]
 

​"Interview with S. T. Allen, 2017 Space laureate- Promo Eric Scotto, Prize "Architecture, design and technology for the space". Project : PLATINUM CITY The world's first post-human city Team : Sean Thomas Allen Country : UK."

[Quote: Fondation Jacques Rougerie]

Publication Design: Mike Aling

Design Tutors: Pascal Bronner, Thomas Hillier

Technical Tutor: David Storring

Computing Tutor: Sean Allen

"We are delighted that @Sean Thomas Allen's project, Grand Prix 2017, category "Innovation and Architecture for Space"

appears in the latest issue of @AAmagazine ! Congratulations again for this incredible "First post-human city in the world" project,

to be rediscovered on our website: http://www.fondation-jacques-rougerie.com/news/."

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[Quote: Fondation Jacques Rougerie]

AA 423
March 2018
Ref: DIG-PAP-423
DOSSIER: THE CONSTRUCTION SITE, PROJECT TIME

For its first issue of the year, AA proposes a file dedicated to the site as project time. In summary :
Portrait: AAA
Heritage: Beaudouin and Lods
Projects:
- Convent of the Jacobins, Jean Guervilly
- Modern comfort, Nicole Concordet
- Paris TGI, RPBW
- Platinum City, Sean Thomas Allen

Architectures To Live 100 
March - April 2018
DOSSIER: SPECIAL # 100! THE HOUSE WHICH WANTS YOU TO GO
Comfortable, connected, ecological: projects of architects who take care of their inhabitants!

NEW WORLDS
> Colonize space, the world of the day after tomorrow

"The Space category unsurprisingly delivered a variety of exciting sci-fi inspired structures that bounced out of real technologies into extreme futuristic propositions. The Grand Prix winner in this category imagined a huge mining city on an asteroid designed to be like a giant computer."

[Quote: New Atlas - Rich Haridy]

"The nine winning projects of the 2017 Jacques Rougerie International Architecture Competition explore living solutions in the unexplored territories of sea and space. The competition, established in 2011, challenges the young architects to conceptualize “innovative, audacious and promising projects that imagine new methods of sustainable development within the realms of sea and space.” The awards were given to nine promising firms in three categories: Innovation and Architecture for Space, Innovation and Architecture for the Sea, and Architecture and Sea Level Rise."

[Quote: BLOUIN ARTINFO international]

"Nine visionary projects focused on living within the relatively unexplored terrains of sea and space have been selected as winners of the 2017 Jacques Rougerie international architecture competition. The competition aims to foster the creativity of young architects by challenging them to complete “innovative, audacious and promising projects” that imagine new methods of sustainable development within the realms of sea and space. ."

[Quote: ArchDaily - Patrick Lynch]

" 2017 GRAND PRIX
Platinum City, Première ville post-humaine au monde / Platinum City, Worlds First Post-Human City
Equipe/Team: Sean Thomas Allen
Pays/Country: Royaume-Uni/United-Kingdom "

[Quote: Institut De France]

"the exploration of the underwater world and the space world are the two great human adventures of our time, and they shape our future"

[Quote: Le Moniteur]

Please follow the link to  listen to the Laurette of the 2017 Innovation In Space Architecture Grand Prix winner Sean Thomas Allen's acceptance speech given in Paris to the Jacques Rougerie Foundation on 18th January 2018 at the  Institut De France.

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[Title photograph credits ©Eric Descouts_Paris Match]

Please follow the link to see photographs of the Laurette of the 2017 Innovation In Space Architecture Grand Prix winner Sean Thomas Allen in Paris at the Jacques Rougerie Foundation on 18th January 2018 at the  Institut De France.

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[Title photograph credits ©Eric Descouts_Paris Match]

" The Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition (KRob) has celebrated the best in architectural delineation for 43 years. A Dallas classic that has received international recognition, KRob honors hand and digital delineation by professionals and students throughout the world. Averaging over 400 entries from 25 countries in the past several years, the competition’s visibility continues to grow."

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[Quote: KRob website]

Finalist - Excellence in Digital/Hybrid Media

"The Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition (KRob) is the most senior architectural drawing competition currently in operation anywhere in the world. Celebrating the best in architectural delineation the competition has received international recognition. KRob honors hand and digital delineation by professionals and students throughout the world, averaging over 400 entries from 25 countries in the past several years."

[Quote: KRob website]

Design Tutors: Pascal Bronner, Thomas Hillier

Technical Tutor: David Storring

Computing Tutor: Sean Allen

​Publication Design: Mike Aling

"Inspired by the recent “Space Act of 2015” that enables the legal exploitation of space resources, the design project takes this theme to a logical end by exploring the resulting architectural consequences and their tectonic manifestations in the world’s first post-human city. Sean Thomas Allen`s research extrapolated near future technologies and urban ideas in the context of Peter Baufu’s “Eight Great Future [post-human] Transformations Of Architecture” into programmatic, tectonic and environmental agendas for Platinum City."

[Quote: Archisearch.gre - Zacharenia Vidaki]

"In the new era of space exploration made possible by a spike in technological progress and global interest, especially considering the current state of the Earth and projections for its future, moontopia is generating ideas for developing communities on the Moon, encapsulating all aspects of architecture including social implications."

[Quote: chambre237]

"The jury, whose members included designers from NASA, selected nine projects among hundreds submitted to the contest."

[Quote: Arquitectura Viva - Edward Chew]

"If you, like us, enjoy imagining beautiful space age cities being built on the Moon, the ‘Platinum City’ might well become your favourite entrant for the competition!"

[Quote: Plentific - Philip Gallagher]

"... It's easily the most ambitious and impressive design, with the city itself bringing to mind the dense Metropolis of the classic science fiction film of the same name. For sheer scale and spectacle, this one is definitely top of my list ..."

[Quote: Creativepool - Benjamin Hiorns]

"From a pool of proposals from hundreds of applicants worldwide, 9 schemes were selected by an expert jury including space-architects, academics and NASA designers as the winners of the competition."

[Quote: archdaily - Patrick Lynch]

"in the new age of space exploration made possible by a spike in technological advances and global interest, especially given the current state of the earth and the projections for its future, moontopia elicits ideas for developing communities on the moon, encapsulating every aspect from the architecture itself to its social implications. out of all the international entries received, a first place, second place, and eight honorable mentions were picked that exhibit creative and clever visions for this future. "

[Quote: designboom - Danny Hudson]

"The fantastic graphics of this entry are matched by extensive research. In its form alone, Platinum City is a fantasy-driven utopia. It is a new extraterrestrial urban model based on cutting-edge science and technology that is actually available today. Could this be a vision for what living on the Moon at a large-scale would actually look like?"

[Quote: Designing Buildings Wiki database]

" Nine space-age designs have been revealed as the winners of the Moontopia competition, which asked architects and designers to visualise life on the moon. Entrants to the Moontopia competition were asked to draw up plans for a self-sufficient lunar colony for living, working, researching and space tourism. One winner and eight runners up were selected by a jury of NASA designers, space-architects, academics and architecture and design magazine Eleven’s editorial team from hundreds of proposals."

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[Quote: Medium website]

"Last year, hundreds of people from across the globe took on Eleven Magazine's 2016 lunar challenge, “Moontopia” ... "By the end of the competition, the jury — which comprised of space-architects, academics, and NASA designers — gave awards to nine entries."

[Quote: Bustler - Justine Testado]

"The visuals of the Platinum City are really incredible! It is more a work of pure imagination rather than a realistic study, but I find it quite inspiring."

[Quote: Dezeen Magazine reader]

" Born at the advent of the worlds first post-human industry of asteroid mining, sat proudly upon the moons equator in the depths of a magnificent asteroid crater lies Platinum City. "

[Quote: eleven-magazine]

"The Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition (KRob) is the most senior architectural drawing competition currently in operation anywhere in the world. Celebrating the best in architectural delineation the competition has received international recognition. KRob honors hand and digital delineation by professionals and students throughout the world, averaging over 400 entries from 25 countries in the past several years."

[Quote: KRob website]

Finalist - Excellence in Digital/Hybrid Media

"The Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition (KRob) is the most senior architectural drawing competition currently in operation anywhere in the world. Celebrating the best in architectural delineation the competition has received international recognition. KRob honors hand and digital delineation by professionals and students throughout the world, averaging over 400 entries from 25 countries in the past several years."

[Quote: KRob website]

Design Tutors: Pascal Bronner, Thomas Hillier _Thesis Tutors: Mark Garcia & Simon Withers

Design Tutors: Pascal Bronner, Thomas Hillier _Thesis Tutors: Mark Garcia & Simon Withers

"The review also singles out "the exquisitely crafted and detailed technical studies sitting alongside the imaginative worlds that we have come to expect under the leadership of Neil Spiller and Nic Clear"​.

[Quote: AJ - David Hills]

Book Launch - Student Features - The R_evolution Laboratories

Design Tutors: Pascal Bronner, Thomas Hillier _Technical Tutor: Jonathan Watts @hopkinsarchitects