03 : Tutorial : Mobile + Distributed

Create stories that describe your ideas with specific contexts, users, situations and strategies.
We will call them architectural fictions.











































As the two themes were joined for our discussions our topics were vast and resulted in a complicated web of ideas.  One of the standout ideas that stood in the distributed theme was the question "how will the population be distributed in the future?"  The ease at which people can migrate internationally is increasing (for example many young Irish people are moving to Australia, mostly due to economic downfall and lack of employment) - but will this result in people being trained in a variety of areas, multi-skilled so that they can move between boom industries - and how will the education system be able to cope with this?

This lead into the mobile theme that with more international travel, perhaps people won't physically move for work and instead work for an international company from home.  How will this lack of social interaction, change the role of the 'home'.  This was discussed further in the next theme group...

02 : Tutorial : Distributed

This weeks tutorial allowed for exploration in groups about of the four different themes (Virtual / Flexible / Mobile / Distributed) and how they benefit an Australian Capital and its agents.  Naturally, some were easier to explore than others.

Distributed can pretty much be split in two ways.  Firstly, it can be the same element, but distributed in different places.  Or can be one 'centre', which many tangents each adapted to suit many different areas.  I think these tangents, could be places which are self-sustainable, similar to the notion of satellite cities, places which people can work/live/play - yet still maintaining the feeling of being 'connected' to the rest of the country.  I think it is also important to consider the possibility of accumulating the best of each multi-culture in the centre.  The sum of all parts.