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
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Studio leads: Jon Tollit & Denis Vlieghe.
Technology: Yuting Cheng, Sergej Maier, Cristina Garza Lasierra. MPL: Dagmar Binsted.
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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
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Lesha Chetty