Core to the presentation made by our group was the idea of an integrative system which would alter the scale and coincidences of interaction through re-localised food production.
Our intervention addresses contemporary issues: food consumption, sustainability, social dynamism and technology.
Populations in cities are growing at an extremely fast rate, particularly in western, rich Australian cities like Brisbane. However, if lifestyles of Australian city dwellers are sustained to current trends, soon over-population will be a serious issue where footprint (physical and carbon) for supporting such a population will have severe consequences.
The force of this growth could typically be a contemporary family residing in the hills of Paddington, sitting on Ikea couches, BMW car in garage, watching big brother on a flat-screen TV while obliviously feasting on a meal of unknown origin or journey to the local shopping centre, sold at shocking profit margins by corporate wealth entity WOOLWORTHS.
This up-rising demographic is not only left out in the dark on unsustainable food production processes but has insatiable appetite for consumer products and immediate entertainment which has disconnected them from traditional values of community.
Ultimately this has lead to an unintegrated, unmotivated, uninvolved and uninspiring homogeneous neighbourhood.
With this in mind we would hope to re-facilitate and educate the locale. The basis for our intervention will sustainably integrate a programmatic mix of retail, farming and education. The new Paddington Central will engender something of a neo-agrarian community, strongly encouraging all members of Paddington regardless of social standing to be involved in the food they eat: interacting, producing, educating and sharing.
Ideally, the Paddington Central redevelopment will act as a hub and catalyse further smaller scale emergent situations within the streets and around the neighbourhood, creating a sustainable network of resources.
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