Resource Revolution

How can we create sustainable social communities in the face of rapid, global population growth?

On the exhibition '70 % Less CO2' you can explore the project 'Resource Revolution'.

Global urbanisation has created complex challenges, including rapid population growth and inequities within infrastructure and socio-economic development. By 2050, the United Nations predicts that over 3 billion people will be living in informal settlements.

With the inevitable future challenges of climate change and resource scarcity, we must explore autonomous, sustainable systems that work in concert with our eco-systems, not against them.

‘Resource Revolution’ is a thesis project based in Antofagasta, Chile. The proposal explores how to create a social-housing eco-system that empowers communities to become self-sustaining through natural resource production. It explores resource autonomy, provoking thoughts of alternative ways of living. It investigates how architecture can play an active role in merging resource production with living.