This fall semester (2019/20) The Why Factory will offer MSc1 Air City, Living in the Sky.
The futuristic transportation tunnels of Elan Musk snaking beneith Los Angeles, like underground waterslides forming an high-speed public transportation system will very soon be reality. The first flying cars are being available on the commercial market. Commercial orbit flights are around the corner which creates the connection New York – London in under half an hour…
Aircity wants to take a look beyond those innovations, and envision the technologies that will allow for a truly new mobility around our planet. Is it really the Monorail or Hyperloop which will fundamentally change the future of mobility? Or can we look at it in a different way? While these huge infrastructure projects take up enormous amount of land in our cities and hence the Earth’s habitable surface, it is time to think about the next step. What if we do not need any infrastructure? What if we can move up, down, left, right, rotate, revolve in any direction at any time? What if we could fly?
Aircity builds up from the SkyCity studio offered by the Why Factory in the Fall 2018 and is an invitation to speculate on which technologies can enable us to fly. Drones, Magnetics, Balloons, Jetpacks, or even Nano technology. What would be the implications of such a revolution? Will we need capsules for that? Will we need buildings? What new typologies will emerge? How will those technologies shape our cities? Can we script a software to help us design these new spaces? Can we create a VR-experience to feel how it is like in such a new air city?
