Calum Bowden and Aliaksandra Smirnova in conversation
Invisible Landscapes
Saturday 10 November 2018 5.30 - 6pm
The Architecture Studio, The Dorfman Senate Rooms, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts
Free, no booking required.
Invisible Landscapes
Can blockchain technologies connect people in remote off-grid communities and provide clean, low-cost energy to improve their living conditions?
Join us for a free conversation with artist Calum Bowden and urbanist Aliaksandra Smirnova who will discuss their collective project Phi, a platform that connects people in remote off-grid communities to clean, low-cost energy with the aim of improving their living conditions.
The conversation will take place in the Architecture Studio and will reflect on our recent installation in the Invisible Landscapes series, designed by London-based strategic design studio Dark Matter Laboratories.
Before the conversation, Bowden and Smirnova will run The World Game workshop: a strategy and simulation workshop inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s World Game in which participants redistribute resources using peer-to-peer blockchain-based tools and plan speculative fictional scenarios.
This event is free, no booking required.
The World Game workshop
What would you do if you ruled the world? Join us for this workshop inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s World Game and create a strategy to redistribute the world’s resources.
The World Game is a strategy and simulation workshop in which players redistribute resources using tools from speculative fiction and scenario planning. It updates Buckminster Fuller’s World Game, which the architect first proposed in 1961, reimagining it for the current age of global finance, big data, mass migration, and climate catastrophe.
During the session, participants will learn to identify future trends and imagine situations to enable them to redistribute resources in more equitable ways.