Futurist Design

Jacque Fresco designed conceptual models based on futurist notions of where we might be progressing toward with Global Climate Change threatening our shorelines. Fresco designed cities and housing in the ocean and talked about the "Future by Design" an utopia to elevate the human condition. Perhaps this all seems far-fetched and it is, however, there is a fine line to be draw between delusional and visionary.

There are many design movements inspired by science fiction and fantastical visions of the future from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY to Ray Bradbury's speculative fiction to Futurama, Populux and Googie architecture. They too might be just as crazy but provided a generation of computer designers at MIT Media Lab grist for their inventions mill.

Recently, some of these ideas might have re-emerged in Dubai and with oil-rich Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum has set out to break architectural records for highest, largest and first residental, office, hotel, stadium and spaceport buildings of the world.

This film trailer was shot by William Gazecki: