The new categories for design in the Anthropocene relates directly to the issues humans are causing. Some of these issues include climate change land-system change. The difference between the available options is how quickly we move from policy design to politics.
Speculation has influenced architecture as its a theory or conjecture without evidence. Architects are constantly thinking and coming up with ways of pushing the boundaries of their designs to create something new that's never been done before. “François Roche of New-Territories, R&Sie(n), and [eIf/bʌt/c], who suggests that architects should not attempt to work directly with concepts; instead, architects can benefit from a dosage of vulgarity, deception, nostalgia, and the forbidden, all of which allow for expressions of human pathology and emotion that have been largely excluded from architecture in recent decades.” said by Etienne Turpin in “Architecture in the Anthropocene”. We can take a more multi-scalar and multi-centered approach which will then give us the more lucid and politically correct assessment. Which can also be conveyed through spherical thinking in a way that considers many different concepts and puts them all together to create a whole new concept.
Some of the new issues in the Anthropocene include, but are not limited to climate change, environmental crises, as well as political ecology and land use interpretation. In “Architecture in the Anthropocene” Turpin says, “The multiplicity of these matters of discussion are intended to signal a certain intensive variability among architecture practices; between matters of fact and matters of concern, we are exposed to a heterogeneous meso-sphere where strategy and speculation become complementary modes of inquiry.” This goes along with the point of needing to be able to think about more than just one variable at a time, architects must think and design for all the variables. Etienne Turpin then goes on to write,“ In conversation with John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog of Territorial Agency, we are encouraged to consider the practice of architecture with a more precise, historical specificity; in so doing, we discover that architecture does not require an expanded field or a new imperialism, since, “The object of research and practice is architecture, and the means is architecture.”” The challenges in the Anthropocene have been changing throughout all of human history and we need to be able to look at the past to be able to design for these new challenges.
Cyberpunk is used to express relationships between the human species and artificial computer intelligence. The consciousness of artificial intelligence, the use of humans as computers and the comparison between human consciousness and computer hard drive is a way of thinking we use to relate social, political and philosophical issues. In “Architecture in the Anthropocene”, Aby Warburg suggests that we should “...abolish the distinction between accumulation of knowledge and aesthetic production, between research and performance.” She is suggesting that the knowledge and production become the same thing as well as combining our research and performance to allow us to create productive adjacencies and disjunctions.
The creation and use of the hyperloop will greatly change the way we as humans travel around the world. Businesses and workplaces may start to become more competitive to work for/at if they can reach people across the entire country or countries, depending on the area. If the commute time over larger distances is greatly shortened by the Hyperloop, people living in the northern part of the United States could potentially work further south and have a short commute time. Not only will it be able to change our commute times we will have the ability to travel for recreation to places that may have been too expensive or too far in a given time frame.
Along with decreasing our travel times, the hyperloop is designed to be powered completely by solar energy which will hopefully help reduce the amount of non-renewable energy sources being used if the hyperloop becomes the main mode of transportation for a lot of people. If we are using less fossil fuels to travel this
allows for our atmosphere to not be as polluted so our air will be cleaner. Cleaner air will lead to an improved ecosystem where all living things can thrive and be healthier. The use of cars today, especially in more densely populated parts of the world, are a huge factor in the air quality of that particular area. If more people switch from driving a car as their main form of transportation to using the hyperloop we can help to reverse the effects of global warming caused by the byproduct, carbon dioxide, of fossil fuels we use to fuel our cars.
Works Cited
McFarlane, :. (2016, May 24). Home. Retrieved November 11, 2020, from
Turpin, E. (2013). Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time,
Science and Philosophy. Open Humanities Press.
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