Future Trends & Landscape Architecture :

Who designs the future

Annimac www.annimac.com.au Futurist & Trend Forecaster

Hassell Landscape Architecture Discipline Conference 2008 Rottnest Island 13th June 2008

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Speed of change

Change Grandfather experienced in

one year

We experience in one day

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Speed of Change :

Younger

means

faster . . .

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I’m never having kids. I hear they take nine months to download.

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Parallel

Universes

Kids

live

them.

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This morning :

• Three global trends

• Three LA trends

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Three Global Challenges

1. Technology

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Three Global Challenges - Technology

By 2025

70 % jobs not exist now

80 % technology not imagined yet

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Japanese Robanoid 2006

Future Receptionist ? Design assistant ?

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Likely jobs in next 20 years :

• Director of Emerging Thought

• Chief Zookeeper - of people

• Home Mood Enhancement Consultant

• MyPlace Consultant UD planner

• Virtual Community Facilitator

• Telepathic Communications Coach

• Holographic Landscape Modeller

• Robanoid Paralegal “Legaloid”

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Three Global Challenges Technology Call Centre - Asia

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Three Global Challenges

2. Climate change

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Three Global Challenges Climate Change

• Global warming

• Sea levels rising 2° = 1 metre

• Droughts Floods

• Earthquakes

• Volcanoes

• Violent Storms

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Three Global Challenges

3. Peak Oil :

The Big Rollover

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Three Global Challenges Peak Oil

OIL BUYERS MARKET

The Peak of World Oil Production

CHEAP & EASY-TO-EXTRACT OIL

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Past oil production

We are here

Previous Rollovers

SELLERS MARKET

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BIG ROLLOVER

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Chinese Technology CentreChinese Technology Centre

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Three LA Trends

1. Multidisciplinarity

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Three LA Trends - Multidisciplinarity

Challenges of :

• professional demarcation

• standards of practice

• educational exclusivities

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Three LA Trends

2. Shifting values & attitudes

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Life is drawing

without an eraser

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Chi master class with MIT engineers

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Albany Highway Williams Western Australia 2004

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Three LA Trends

3. Generational gap

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Generations

Baby Boomers 1945 – 60 age 45 - 60

Generation X 1960 – 75 30 - 45

DotComs 1975 – 90 15 - 30

Ferals 1990 – now to 15

Generation X 1960 – 80 25 - 45

Generation Y 1980 – now to 25

wikipedia

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Baby Boomers$100 for speeding

$250 for misleading the public

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Boomers & technology That’s the phone,

dear,

Here, try the remote

That’s the phone dear. Here try the

remote.

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Boomers Care

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Three LA Trends - Generation Gap

Generation X 30 - 45

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Gen Xers

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Gen X Lifestyle Dog

What !

No lemon wedge ?

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Three LA Trends - Generation Gap

DotComs 15 - 30

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DotComs

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DotComs Relationships

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Three LA Trends - Generation Gap

Ferals to 15

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Ferals to 15

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Parallel

Universes

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Facing the future in Landscape Architecture :

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thank you www.annimac.com.au

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HEADLINES FROM THE YEAR : 2029

 

* Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions  

* Tasmanian Devil plague threatens Australasian crops & livestock * Baby conceived naturally.  Scientists stumped

* Iran still closed off; physicists estimate 10 yrs before radioactivity at safe level 

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Headlines 2029

* France pleads for global help after being taken over by Jamaica

* No other country helps the beleaguered nation

* George Z. Bush says will run for Pres in 2036  

* Postal Service raises price of 1st class stamp to $17.89; mail delivery only on Wednesdays

* 85-year $75.8 B study confirms :  Diet & exercise are keys to weight loss. 

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Headlines 2029

* Global cooling blamed for citrus crop failure - for third consecutive year * Fuel stations open only on Tues & Fri. * Supreme Court rules punishment of criminals violates their civil rights

* Average height of pro basketballers now 288 cms / 9 ft 7 ins * Law requires all nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters & rolled-up newspapers to be registered by January 2030.

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