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Mapping the future?
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One key purpose of a map is to show us where we want to go... How do we develop a map to a Zero Carbon Future?
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A map for 2050? We have a legal target of 80% carbon cuts by 2050 There’s a lot of visions of what that might look like Such visions often fail to link to current situations How can a mapping process help?
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Mapping the future? 2050 – as near as 1970 80% of homes to be lived in then exist now Some things will look much the same So how do we map what's different?
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A map of a vision? We can map the things we imagine we might need: What needs to be added / taken away – The new buildings / services – The community biodigester, windfarm etc. – The new transport systems How existing buildings will change
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What would we put on the map? Icons could link to – Plans / designs – Pictures / drawings / artworks – Stories / visions Linking all these to specific places will create a vision based on current reality and show how we need to start to change
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Making maps live... Maps are entering a new era – coming alive with pictures and stories (and search engines and avatars?) Maps can link on-line networks to real places Maps can create fantasies...... but we also need maps as a tool that communities can use for change
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Mapping for change? “It is not down in any map; true places never are”. - Herman Melville (Moby Dick) Or maybe we don’t have the right kind of maps… Ye t…
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“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time” (T.S.Eliot – Little Gidding) and that will need a very special map...
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