No Idea Where It Comes From
Pacific
「 Environmental Dystopia 」
Commissioned by RE:VISION – San Francisco, USA
Project Site Saipan, Pacific Ocean
Conception date 02.2008
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Published in Topos _Landscape Strategies – in 2009
This is the study on the potential changes of world map and the analysis of its phenomenal modification of the world dated from now to year 2048.
Focused on the social factors brought by the actors, it draws attention on the longevity of it crucial effects on earth. It is to develop some critical views on the new trend of sustainability in urban planning and to stimulate the people involved to be more conscious of the possible outcomes that can be disastrous.
In 2048, Saipan is no more an island, but a port bordered by a lake in the heart of the Middle Pacifi c of Sandy Ocean.
Appeared usual and ordinary, the life of expended continents is, nevertheless, not the same with sand-belts of Middle Pacifi c Highland and industrial exportation.
The dwellers that were mainly aborigine in 2008 are presently composed of the migrants from the coasts of collapsed continents, who never settle down and always sail within the same dunes of the Pacific.
Saipan that was a worldwide mockery 30 years ago is now a master and governor of the newly born empire and its reputation became out of reach. The upheavals that bore the banks are of maieutic on a world currently in rejuvenation. What is achieved in Saipan makes the old and withered world envious of a ‘beauty of elsewhere’.
The wealthy countries have cast long an inquisitive glance at the Pacific and each developed a relaxation resort providing balance sheet.
However, these same defenders of beauty as such will later discover somewhat different advantage of the wild region. It will rejoin the Kyoto Protocol (1997). Neither a place to hide nor any fi nancing to treat having found, the billon tons of food wastes will be buried underground and this holiday resort at the edge of social misery will simply accept the helps from wealthy countries referring to a substantial development.
The ‘sustainable chic’ of these embezzlers may grow beyond reason till the chemical implosion. The billion tons of wastes on the coasts will infi ltrate into the land and destructure the terrestrial elements. In result, the slow erosion will begin fi lling the Pacifi c with the aggregates from continental coasts. Gradually the fi lled ocean will form a multitude of dunelands.
The promoters of resorts and ecology who poured their bins on the earthly paradise will organise scrupulously ‘a new commerce’ on the land, “Restore”, that is pump the sands of the land and sell it to the damaged countries to reconstitute their coasts.
Looked at reversely, this is precisely what formulates Saipan of a new allure, new commerce, and new statue of today in 2048 in the Middle Pacifi c Highland of dunelands, a city as an idol of sustainable action, which turned out to be a scapegoat of sustainable spirit.
This is an attempt to understand how such an issue like ‘sustainability’ and itswrong doings can cause baleful effects that will echo in the future for centuries.
- Sustanable Narrative
- Environmental Fiction
- International Relation
- Political Ecology