Sunday 13 January 2013

THE RINGS OF PERSEPHONE  / A NEW SOCIETY / A NEW WAY TO PLAY.....


Persephone is in fact one big automated machine.  It has sensors in all technical belts to track the progress of agriculture, energy gathering, production, distribution and the like.


So if we could start from scratch, what would such a society look like?  Well I've attempted to envision such a future through the design of Persephone.  Persephone is a worldship that'll be constructed in orbit in a hundred years time.  Designed to accommodate 1000 inhabitants, Persephone is comprised of 7 Belts that interlock together to form the worldship's structure.  Each belt represents essential parts of a thriving society (Food, Production, Residential, Power, Recreation, Social and Education).  No society goes without change, and so Persephone has been designed to be malleable allowing for change in future colonies.  Additional Belts can be added, or existing ones repurposed as the values and ideals of future societies change.

Saturday 12 January 2013

PERSEPHONE  / IF WE COULD BUILD A NEW SOCIETY FROM SCRATCH......



With our vast technological insight and exceptional cognitive abilities, our potential as a species could be extraordinary.  However, many of us are fast becoming lifeless machines, caught up in dead end draining repetitious jobs, where we are deemed as nothing more than a cog in the system.  A system that is flawed by design.  A system that is not driven by the ascension of man, but rather by the lust and hunger for money and profit regardless of the costs to both you, I or our planet.  My design proposes a society no longer shackled by the chains of this system.  A society that is multiracial and monocultural, where it's inhabitants worship the stars, planets, body and mind as opposed to money.  A place where man can rejoice, laugh and have fun.  A society that better allows us to find our higher purpose as man.