In a rare cross-over between my futures practice and that as a collage-artist, I was commissioned to create illustrative collages for the REINVENT project’s Rough Planet Guide to Notterdam, a tourist guide to an imagined coastal city in a decarbonised Europe circa 2045.
The Rough Planet Guide declines to answer the question of “how do we make the decarbonisation transition happen?”, in favour of the question “how might we live in a successfully decarbonised Europe?” Thinking through the polyphony of the latter sheds new light on the former, not least because it makes it clear that there is more than one pathway to a post-fossil Europe.
The Rough Planet Guide to Notterdam 2045 is written by my inimitable colleague Paul Graham Raven. You can download the Rough Guide here, or for more information visit the REINVENT project site.