Architectus Brisbane recently participated in the Unlimited: Designing for the Asia Pacific, taking part in a collaborative exhibition entitled Moving Cities: Moving People and Moving Minds.
This was an exhibition of projects and thinking by Architectus (concerned with making public spaces), Inkahoots (concerned with messages, knowledge and ideas), Deka Furniture (furniture for transportable ways of living) and QCA Master of Design Futures Program (a platform for the discussion of the future of cities) that explored the challenges of designing secure new habitation in a world of rapidly changing climate conditions.
With much of the Asia Pacific’s population concentrated along coastlines and/or river valleys, many in our region are vulnerable to severe (and increasing) climate events, including sea level rise storms, tsunamis, cyclones, flooding and drought: Queensland is as vulnerable as Vanuatu or the Mekong or Indus Deltas. Answering the challenge means not only dealing with geographic and social ecologies, the processes of transition and change, but also the dangers of conflict coming from the mass migration of displaced people. The opportunity is to see design as a core social process, integrated with the governance, economic and ethical systems that allow the creation of desirable places of sustainment.
