Ministry of Happiness
Ministry of Happiness
GDP and continuous growth as a measure of development is a capitalist construct which is no longer compatible with the challenges of climate change and social inequality we face. Progressive societies are starting to value measures of happiness and well-being as the alternative measure of success. This projects imagines a new Ministry of Happiness and Wellbeing for London, in one of the most prominent of locations, the Serpentine Lake, which signifies the importance of which a progressive new future society might hold such values.
GDP and continuous growth as a measure of development is a capitalist construct which is no longer compatible with the challenges of climate change and social inequality we face. Progressive societies are starting to value measures of happiness and well-being as the alternative measure of success. This projects imagines a new Ministry of Happiness and Wellbeing for London, in one of the most prominent of locations, the Serpentine Lake, which signifies the importance of which a progressive new future society might hold such values.
The threshold between the imaginary and the real ceases to exist, as the gap between the digital and physical closes. Technological developments give these worlds an opportunity to coalesce, transforming the virtual into a component of the city, enabling the creation of a new built environment. The project is a near-future spatial design school for architectural design, game design and film. Future designers will use new technologies to study spatial design, following the evolution of VR, AR, MR and holographic technologies, where models can be experienced in an immersive virtual environment. Within the proposal, traditional classical architectural elements fuse with future design possibilities. The design is a coexisting of the virtual and the real, material and immaterial, past and future, real and imaginary, digital and physical.