Prototypes for future cities: Kings Cross 2050 

OUR VISION

OxfordDS6 delves into the topic of future cities, looking at the longer-term impact of our industry and creating projects that challenge existing conditions in dense urban centres. Supported by a team of experts in their field, our studio uses interdisciplinary systems thinking, novel technologies, innovation and data-driven strategies as its core philosophy. Our vision is to design proposals that aim to define the new urban metabolism for the generation to come, by 2050.

NARRATIVE

Kings Cross,  2050

What will our cities look like in 2050 if our societies hit all UN sustainable development goals? What if they don’t? How will city centres need to evolve in the coming decades to respond to demographic changes? What will they need to do to reach net zero targets governments are committed to? Our studio examines these questions by creating experimental designs that aim to respond to our future needs.

The Kings Cross masterplan has been delivering on Argent’s “Principles for a Human City” to this day, and the next generation of designers need to continue to plan to ensure its long term sustainability and resilience to changes.

The scale of present issues our inner cities face require a long-term outlook, along with knowledge from various fields. Our studio believes true sustainability can only be achieved through interdisciplinary thinking.

 

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

-        Buckminster Fuller

  • Studio leads: Jon Tollit & Denis Vlieghe.

    Technology: Yuting Cheng, Sergej Maier, Cristina Garza Lasierra. MPL: Dagmar Binsted.

  • Thalia Barrett

    Haziq Bin Noor Azhuril

    Sophy Botsford

    Kin Yeung Ho

    Fartun Jimale

    Aamir Kundanpurwala

    Abdelrahman Mohammed

    Jinnah Nasir

    Shalom Osuchukwu

    Raj Narendra Patel

    Dhruvkumar Prajapati

    Raafat Raafat

    Aston Young

  • Lesha Chetty

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