{"id":954,"date":"2009-02-15T06:03:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T13:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/15\/speculative-modeling-response-2-conversations\/"},"modified":"2009-02-15T06:03:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T13:03:27","slug":"speculative-modeling-response-2-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/speculative-modeling-response-2-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Speculative modeling response: 2 conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Davies had the lovely idea of proposing a project around <a href=\"http:\/\/russelldavies.typepad.com\/planning\/2008\/11\/speculative-mod.html\">speculative modeling with the Lyddle End series<\/a>. I received a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modelsupermarket.com\/pages\/product\/product.asp?produ=N8655&#038;ctgry=A_Category_Railway_LiddleEnd_N_Village&#038;Town&#038;utm_source=googlebase&#038;utm_medium=cse&#038;cookie%5Ftest=1\">Lock Side Stores<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is my response in the form of imagery and conversations taking place in 2050.<\/p>\n<p>1. An afternoon at the Science Museum<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image950\" src=\"http:\/\/designswarm.webfactional.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/designswarm_sm_1.jpg\" alt=\"designswarm_sm_1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image951\" src=\"http:\/\/designswarm.webfactional.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/designswarm_sm_2.jpg\" alt=\"designswarm_sm_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; So this is it?<br \/>\n&#8211; Yeh<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8230;.<br \/>\n&#8211; Yeh, I know, what a hike for so little.<br \/>\n&#8211; So, ok, when is this supposed to be from?<br \/>\n&#8211; Hmm, 2006 I think.<br \/>\n&#8211; And people lived like this? In such small spaces? With walls? No windows? No doors.<br \/>\n&#8211; Yeh&#8230;well I think.<br \/>\n&#8211; Hmm<br \/>\n&#8211; I know, crazy huh?<br \/>\n&#8211; Totally, I mean look at those plants.<br \/>\n&#8211; Yeh<br \/>\n&#8211; Don&#8217;t see those anymore.<br \/>\n&#8211; I wonder how lucky they thought themselves to be.<br \/>\n&#8211; Well, clearly not, look at what happened after.<br \/>\n&#8211; Yeh, I know&#8230;Fuckwits.<\/p>\n<p>2. Waiting in line<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image952\" src=\"http:\/\/designswarm.webfactional.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/designswarm_sm_3.jpg\" alt=\"designswarm_sm_3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image953\" src=\"http:\/\/designswarm.webfactional.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/designswarm_sm_4.jpg\" alt=\"designswarm_sm_4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; So&#8230;how long have you been waiting here?<br \/>\n&#8211; Hmm, 3 days now I think. Hard to tell, I doze off periodically. You?<br \/>\n&#8211; A week I think.<br \/>\n&#8211; I wonder when those guys will get out?<br \/>\n&#8211; Well they&#8217;ve been in there for 20 hours or so, the next ones will be up shortly.<br \/>\n&#8211; What do you suppose is in there anyway? I mean the rumors are pretty wild.<br \/>\n&#8211; Yeh I hear there&#8217;s turn of the century cultery in there with, like, real fruits and vegetables. Or, well, what they could artifically make up.<br \/>\n&#8211; Yeh pineapple and crumpets&#8230; I hear there&#8217;s real wooden furniture, and paper books. You can have a lie down and read.<br \/>\n&#8211; What&#8217;s a lie down?<br \/>\n&#8211; Not sure, but I heard that&#8217;s what people did back then.<br \/>\n&#8211; Crazy.<br \/>\n&#8211; I can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Davies had the lovely idea of proposing a project around speculative modeling with the Lyddle End series. I received a Lock Side Stores. This is my response in the form of imagery and conversations taking place in 2050. 1. An afternoon at the Science Museum &#8211; So this is it? &#8211; Yeh &#8211; &#8230;.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/speculative-modeling-response-2-conversations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speculative modeling response: 2 conversations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-fo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}