... because we humans can only work for a future we can imagine.

One of the virtual 'skins' from Imagine The Future Inc's re-interpretation of a traditional Kulin possum skin cloak created by Csaba Szamosy from images contributed by project partners, Painting the future real, 1996.

[2002 version and accompanying story Models for the future.]

 

CONTENTS AND LINKS: SUSTAINABILITY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A full list of images used in the composite digital image about creating a sustainable future the basalt plain.

A TANK FARM BECOMES AN URBAN VILLAGE

In this concept by David Craven and Philip Snowdon of Snowdon Craven Architects, the Mobil tankfarm at Altona is emptied, decontaminated, and retrofitted as a stylish urban village appropriate to the Zero Fossil Fuel Economy of the 21st century.

THE TOWER

This evocative work of art by William Kelly on the edge of the Cheetham Wetlands within the City of Wyndham, uses the most ecologically benign construction methods, building materials and energy sources that are currently available.

DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

A statement from the World Congress of Architects hosted in Chicago, 18-21 June 1993, by the International Union of Architects and the American Institute of Architects.

PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

An extract from the submission to the Federal Government by the Australian Conservation Foundation, Greenpeace Australia, The Wilderness Society, and the World Wide Fund for Nature, August 1990.

THE POWER OF POSITIVE IMAGININGS

A paper by Merrill Findlay presented at Habitat Melbourne's Sustainable Development Congress in the Altona Civic Centre, 26 July 1994, at which she committed Imagine The Future Inc to this project.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

DRAFT TEXT ONLY -- TO BE CHECKED BY CONTRIBUTORS

The following images were used in this digital composite about options for a socially and ecologically sustainable future on Victoria's basalt plain:


Concept drawing by David Craven and Philip Snowdon of Snowden Craven Architects, of the Mobil tankfarm at Altona as it could be if it were de-contaminated and retro-fitted as an urban village for the twenty first century. This drawing raises many interesting issues about appropriate built forms for a sustainable future.


The wind generator at Black Rock on the Bass Strait coast near Geelong, photographed by Merrill Findlay.


Drawing contributed to the project by Steve Axford at the Urban Design Unit of the Victorian Department of Infrastructure, to emphasise the importance of bicycles, walking, and community life in a more sustainable future.


Details from a concept drawing for The River Project to redevelop the banks of the Maribyrnong River at Footscray, made available by Peter Atkins, Development Project Coordinator for the City of Maribyrnong, and photographed for 'Painting the future real' by Merrill Findlay.


Detail from a concept drawing of the proposed Buddhist temple on the banks of the Maribyrnong River at Footscray, made available by Peter Atkins, Development Project Corordinator for the City of Maribyrnong, and photogaphed by Merrill Findlay..


A detail of proposed artwork from a concept drawing for The River Project made available by Peter Atkins, Development Project Corordinator for the City of Maribyrnong, photographed by Merrill Findlay.


View across farming land to the You Yangs from the Princes Highway between Melbourne and Geelong, photgraphed for the project by Merrill Findlay.

Archive page firs published online in 1996, taken off-line in 1998/99 and reposted in a slightly modified form in July 2004. For more information contact redreaming@rmit.edu.au.