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Tuur Van Balen

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Thu, 14 May 2009 11:56:11 +0100

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Lyddle End 2050 - A Supermarket: This supermarket is my entry in...

Tue, 05 May 2009 11:55:41 +0100

Lyddle End 2050 - A Supermarket: This supermarket is my entry in Russell Davies’ Lyddle End 2050 project.lyddleend2050.tumblr.com/ In 42 years I reckon our food production and consumption will be more local, more in balance with our environment, fresher and tastier. I planted broccoli, fennel and beetroot seeds in compost created from my kitchen waste. It took a few weeks to grow and now I’m going to eat it. The compost was created in a wormery. And the worms are now devouring the cardboard Lyddle End packaging. Happy worms. See more about the project here:russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2008/11/speculative-mo…

Lyddle End 2050 - A Supermarket: This supermarket is my entry in...

Tue, 05 May 2009 11:55:34 +0100

Lyddle End 2050 - A Supermarket: This supermarket is my entry in...

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Lyddle End 2050 - A Supermarket: This supermarket is my entry in...

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Lyddle End 2050 - A Supermarket: This supermarket is my entry in...

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Lyddle End 2050 - A Supermarket: This supermarket is my entry in...

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Lyddle End 2050 - A Supermarket: This supermarket is my entry in...

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Lyddle End 2050 - A Supermarket: This supermarket is my entry in...

Tue, 05 May 2009 11:55:01 +0100

the shape of power to come 2

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:54:51 +0100

the shape of power to come 2

the shape of power to come 1: 1862: Alexander Parkes unveils...

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:54:48 +0100

the shape of power to come 1: 1862: Alexander Parkes unveils Parkesine, the first man made plastic1891-1960: After Rayon, Cellophane and Bakelite, twenty different polymer types are developed (pvc, pe, pa, ps, pp …), the use of plastic skyrockets 1959: Ornette Coleman records ‘Lonely Woman’ on a plastic saxophone 1972: Club of Rome publishes its report ‘Limits to Growth’ 2000: The scientists that gave us Dolly create the first cloned pigs, a bigger scientific breakthrough than the sheep 2004: The first IGEM competition takes place at MIT, a Synthetic Biology competition for undergraduate students2005: The UK produces 3 million tonnes of plastic waste a year, 85% of it is landfilled2011: The Imperial College IGEM team modifies the DNA of e-coli to break down plastics, generating a small electric current. The DNA code is open source. 2015: By many considered as the last mass-produced piece of plastic, the long-awaited Availabot hits the market 2018: Environmental Health Tax is introduced globally 2032: Vincent Chappell, 21 years after taking part in Imperial College’s IGEM team, finalises the design of the Chappell Plant, a power plant that converts plastic waste into electricity. The power plant makes use of a designed ecosystem that consists of children, pigs and bacteria around a big root system. 2040: The Faulkner family, a family of environmentalists from Lyddle End invests in it’s first Chappell Plant. Their children live on the site as part of the ecosystem to produce electricity for the family. 2050: The Carbon-Money-Energy balance of the environmentalist group rises to unknown heights and makes them the most powerful family in the region. Due to the electricity-monopoly and dubious carbon-energy deals with the local government, the Faulkner family strengthens it’s reputation as the mafia of the south… This is my contribution to LyddleEnd 2050, Russell’s Speculative Modelling project

the shape of power to come 4

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:54:47 +0100

the shape of power to come 4

the shape of power to come 3

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:54:47 +0100

the shape of power to come 3

the shape of power to come: work in more progress for...

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:54:36 +0100

the shape of power to come: work in more progress for russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2008/11/speculative-mo… explained soon

lyddle sketch: work in...

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:54:14 +0100

lyddle sketch: work in progressrusselldavies.typepad.com/planning/2008/11/speculative-mo…

“communications for tomorrow” Lyddle End 2050....

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:55:50 +0100

“communications for tomorrow” Lyddle End 2050. UtilityBots - 03: In the year 2040 it was deemed unfeasible for most utility work to be carried out by manual labor (slave or otherwise) HP labs, merged with IBM to create IBM,deux. They created the first series of ABC workers, or Utilitybots as we came to know them. Life was easy until they started to get smart. Version 2 were described as “a little hard” or “short tempered”. By the time we got to 2050, version 4 were rolling off the assembly lines to a soundtrack by Ministry and were “ever so rude”, and “not quite the type of robots we wanted in our village”. They did however keep the streets clean, and no one kicked a dustbin again, or smashed the phone box. The newspaper industry too thanked IBM for its aggressive marketing tactics - now we all take a paper whether we like it or not. god bless big blue.