"THEIR IMAGINATIONS ARE CONSTRAINED BY THE TYRANNY OF THE POSSIBLE"

Soyons clair, la prospective urbaine est aujourd'hui très ennuyeuse.

Elle est dominée par un conformisme terrifiant.

Tout le monde pense la même chose.

Tout le monde fait la même chose.

Entre espace de co-working, jardins potagers sur le toits et pistes cyclables, on est en train de crever d'ennui et de tristesse.

Sans parler des crétins qui pensent qu'aucune innovation n'est possible sans numérique.

C'est dommage, car il y pleine choses à imaginer très disruptive pour répondre aux nouveaux imaginaires et attentes sociales qui se font jour.

On peut à cet égard jeter de nouveau un coup d'oeil à "San Francisco 2028 ?" avec les propositions imaginés par Packard Jenning et Steve Lambert et surtout lire le manifeste qui accompagnait cette démarche "Art of impossible".

"What is so inspiring – and honest — about the visions of our future offered up by Jennings and Lambert is their transparent impossibility. 

Yet at the same time these impossible dreams open up spaces to imagine new possibilities. The problem with asking professionals to “think outside the box” and imagine new solutions is, without intervention, they usually won’t. Their imaginations are constrained by the tyranny of the possible. 

By visualizing impossibilities, however, Jennings and Lambert create an opening to ask “what if ?” Standing in front of one of their posters on the street you smile at the absurd idea of practicing Tae Kwon Do on your train ride home. But you may also begin to question why public transportation is so uni-functional, and then ask yourself why shouldn’t a public transportation system cater to other public desires. 

This could set your mind to wondering why the government is so often in the business of controlling, instead of facilitating, our desires, and then you might start to envision what a truly desirable State would look like. And so on, ad infinitum. Jennings’ and Lambert’s impossible solutions are means to imagine new ones."

Ci-dessus des images qui peuvent renvoyer à "Vers des mobilités de plus en plus déconnantes ?" et "New and extreme urban zipline".