For the final project, I decided to work in grup with Megan Kedge and Rebecca Andrews.
We decided to focus on what can happen to the creek in 500 years. That would be very interesting, try to figure out how it will looks like. We'll try to looking in a dystopic view of Islais creek.
During this class, you showed us another face of San francisco; it was so different 300 yeasr ago. Thats why I'm trying to image another San francisco facing the truth. If now we can see the remains of the creek in a protected area in the heart of Glen Park, I wonder what it will be in a time not far away?It will be just a memory? or, if it was not even a memory?
"Dystopia is the opposite of utopia, a place that is quite unfortunate and undesirable.Often the difference between utopia and dystopia depends on the point of view of the author. The dystopian texts appear as warning works, or satires, showing current trends extrapolated up to apocalyptic conclusions. So the difference is that dystopian is based on the actual society, but by moving the interest on an era and in a distant place or next to a historical discontinuity".
Here an example of a dystopic view of society.
Fahrenheit 451
Interesting point in terms of society’s short term memory. Most citizens of SF don’t know what the city was like 100 yrs ago, a relatively very short time.
ReplyDelete"The dystopian: moving the interest on an era and in a distant place or next to a historical discontinuity".
Fahrenheit 451, a great movie. Interesting to think about how that movie aestheticized the future. In that vein (no pun intended) also see Gattaca: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZppWok6SX88&feature=related
What form is this going to take. Important!