Have you ever owned an electronic watch with 3 tiny buttons pressed simultaneously or in sequence to produce a hundred functions you can’t remember or access? Welcome to Multi-Function Techno-Geek World, where anything that can be imagined can be created to perform endless electronic tricks detailed in a single-sheet multiple-language fine-print user guide.
It seems that even affordable housing cannot avoid the dubious blessings of Multi-Function Techno-Geek World.
Affordable Housing in a watch? Worth some thought (isn’t everything?). But humans cannot, like freckles, live on their own wrists. So let’s electronisize and look for something more suitable off-the-rack. Rather than downsize to a watch, perhaps upsize instead — a more housing-friendly direction.
So, upsize. To?
Say . . . a vehicle?
Yes!
These days, otherwise homeless people are by necessity turning vehicles into affordable homes. And self-driving smart vehicles are the current darlings of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) futureworld.
Let us first perform the social introduction: “Affordable Housing AI vehicle, meet Karl Marx’s ultimate dream of mobile labour free-wheeling from job to job as they bury the housebound bourgeoisie in a cloud of dust.”
Now turn the design possibilities over the to the high-end denizens of Multi-Function Techno-Geek World. Finally burnish their clever inventions through the fevered imagination of an advertising world hell-bent on rediscovering the camper van.
And there you have it. Affordable Housing Salvation!
Read more in the Architects Newspaper: Self-driving homes could be the future of affordable housing
