DS 3.5

This year, Studio 5 explored the phenomenon of the ‘New Revolution’ by investigating what is necessity for human interaction and mankind’s fundamental primary space, the community. As a studio we speculated how the 5th industrial revolution will impact how we might interact on a day-today basis. Whilst considering the impact and change to familiar city centres such as Soho. The New Revolution will impact all parts of human life, thus inevitably shaping lifestyles, living conditions and shared systems in the complexities of today. It is understood that human behaviour emerged from what can be broadly categorised as 4 basic forms of evolutionary processes associated with human revolution. First Revolution; used water and steam power to mechanize production. Second Revolution; used electric power to create mass production, thus the division of labour. Third Revolution; used electronics and information technology to automate production generating ideologies and cultural artefacts through the creation of institutions and technology. Fourth Revolution; the current which is about the rapid change to technology, industries, and societal patterns, increasing interconnectivity and smart automation in our daily life. The co-evolution of these four revolutions has dramatically altered human behaviour and its relationship to the whole planet. The studio asks students to speculate on the next “New Revolution”. To think, develop and propose designs that speculate beyond the conventional m