mapping the future?. one key purpose of a map is to show us where we want to go... how do we develop...

Mapping the future?

One key purpose of a map is to show us where we want to

go...

How do we develop a map to a Zero Carbon Future?

A map for 2050?

• We have a legal target of 80% carbon cuts by 2050

• There’s a lot of visions of what that might look like

• Such visions often fail to link to current situations

• How can a mapping process help?

Mapping the future?

• 2050 – as near as 1970• 80% of homes to be lived in then exist now• Some things will look much the same• So how do we map what's different?

A map of a vision?

We can map the things we imagine we might need:

• What needs to be added / taken away– The new buildings / services– The community biodigester, windfarm etc.– The new transport systems

• How existing buildings will change

What would we put on the map?

• Icons could link to–Plans / designs–Pictures / drawings / artworks– Stories / visions

• Linking all these to specific places will create a vision based on current reality and show how we need to start to change

Making maps live...

• Maps are entering a new era – coming alive with pictures and stories (and search engines and avatars?)

• Maps can link on-line networks to real places• Maps can create fantasies...• ... but we also need maps as a tool that

communities can use for change

Mapping for change?

“It is not down in any map; true places never are”. - Herman Melville (Moby Dick)

Or maybe we don’t have the right kind of maps…

Yet…

“We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first

time”(T.S.Eliot – Little Gidding)

and that will need a very special map...