Connor Templeton
Distributed ledger technologies: a response to globalisation is an attempt to empower communities to design through use of Web3 technologies and their tenets.
About
‘A Response to Globalisation’ is situated in Liverpool, at the geographical pinnacle of the European megalopolis or 'blue banana' symptomatic of globalisation and a reverberant planetary urbanisation. This blue banana disregards the boundaries of the nation-state; much like the new nodal centres of planetary power, instead becoming increasingly supranational.
A response to the causational factors of this globalisation is intended to be realised through use of distributed ledger technologies and blockchain voting: The capability of these technologies as tools for decentralisation is significant and, resultantly, so is their potential for proposing alternatives to traditional legacy systems.
The thesis intends to use these technologies as systems for empowering communities to respond to and act upon local conditions and needs allowing for community-centric, bottom-up decision making. This bottom-up decision making also manifests at an urban and architectural level, allowing communities to design in a participatory manner and respond to local needs and conditions. Subsequently, the project acts as a fiction in which these alternative modes of decision making and design are conceptualised at varying scales.
1:500 Exploded Axonometric
Exploded axonometric displaying the relationship between structural systems as well as the relationship between existing and new volumes.
1:200 and 1:100 Part Perspective Section(s)
Perspective section cutting through residential and communal plug-in 'pods' as well as through the immaterial production hub of the building core.
1:500 Temporal Development
Temporal drawing intended to show the megastructure's use and adaption over a period of time by its community.