FPS - Megacities

Developing - Brown Agenda

Sanitation
Disease
Water Management
Inadequate infrastructure

Developed - Green Agenda

Recycling
Greenhouse gases

China is vital as it is creating a link between the two different types of cities - by creating more
cities that are more developed they are creating a mix of the two types.
Solutions to issues related to megacities
Circular:
Individuals will feel more autonomous
Reverting back to the way that they lived before the Industrial Revolution
Economies of Scale:
Can mean more efficiency
However, if there is bad infrastructure further cost and expenses
Mixing Neighbourhoods:
Combining different types of people will be more effective in creating a spread of
types
Better than keeping all poverty stricken people together gangs, riots
BIOMIMICRY - how could you take objects and SCAMPER them to make them improve
megacities? eg. venus flytraps that remove pollution
Use of leafs, plants and animals
Adaptions to biological things
NATURAL DISASTERS

Nanotech
Sensors
3D Printing
Apps - Communication, integration, diagnostic

A POPULATION EXPLOSION
Sarah
Population Explosion
Challenges

Current Solutions

Futuristic Solutions

Poor sanitation

Destruction to ecosystems

- Soil enriched with minerals

and seeds as bought
-

Gridlock

- Flying cars
- Use of

Unstable
infrastructures/Natural
Disasters

Conflict

- Pliable buildings able to

withstand natural disasters

Water management

Loss of farming land

Flooding due to climate

change

Loss of sunlight

Recreation

Aesthetics

Food supplies

Squatters

- Makeovers of squatter
homes to create high
demand houses

Shanty towns

- Marketing campaign to
rename the town as
trendy/hipster

Governance

Protection of culture,
lifestyle.

- Daily culture partyyyy :(

How do you create futuristic solutions?

You could use:
SCAMPER
Bio-mimicry e.g. Cheongsan tower in Shanghai.
Virtual worlds
E.G. The following solution is an example of someone clever using the P of SCAMPER to
come up with an ingenious invention to create clean water.
LifeStraw
Two years ago, a company based in Switzerland came up with a small, easy to carry, simple to use,
electric-free and replaceable part-free device that filters water instantly for people to drink for under three
dollars. This company produced the LifeStraw, certainly a futuristic idea for the time, but the device does
everything stated above.
The LifeStraw uses a system of filters inside a 25 cm long and 2.9 cm wide blue tube with top and bottom
caps and a string so the user can wear it around his neck. All the user needs to do is put the bottom end
into the water and suck water through to the other end to get the clean water they wish to drink. The
LifeStraw lasts for 700 litres of water, or two litres a day for a year, which is the estimated amount of water
a person drinks per year.
This miraculous invention has been purchased mostly by aid organizations which then hand them out to
people in third world countries who have never had access to drinking water. One sixth of the worlds
population has never had clean drinking water, and it leads to deaths from bacterial diseases like
dysentery, cholera, and typhoid. But this is slowly being helped with the LifeStraw.
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