Arkkitehtipäivät: Low Carbon Society

Low Carbon Society Roope Mokka Aleksi Neuvonen Demos Helsinki [email_address] [email_address] s.fi

From a concrete city vs garden city to anything We Can city

Technology vs Hard Science

Shell

Energy consumption

Number of cars

Global flow of goods

Animal protein consumption

CO2 emission

“ Forecasting” starts from today and doesn't offer views to fruitful possible futures

How much is 630 ppm?

+4 degrees in Celcius

The climate crisis is in its Neville Chamberlain phase right now. People still imagine that a concern with the climate is trendy, and that a judicious head-nod here will mean peace in our time. Those people are not merely mistaken, they are delusionary. They are nodding in disdain at the basic laws of physics. Bruce Sterling

“ Climate Change is the greatest market failure the world has ever seen. The benefits of strong early action is greater than the its costs .” Sir Nicholas Stern : The Economics of Climate Change

Climate change is the the economic equivalent of two world wars and a great depression rolled into one. Sir Nicholas Stern: The Economics of Climate Change

New Industrial Revolution?

Industrial revolution

Money

Clock

Urbanisation

Socialism

Nation state

Representative democracy

Stock market

Work

Leisure

New industrial revolution? ?

Money

Clock

Urbanisation

Socialism

Nation state

Representative democracy

Stock market

The Future is low carbon

The primary goal of a (low carbon) society is happiness

A Happy society is co-created; actively made by us all

The Future is Low Carbon

The world emissions Sir Nicholas Stern : The Economics of Climate Change

CO2 emissions / capita

The Primary Goal of a Society is Happiness

Happy Planet Index

Happiness?

Happiness is co-created

People are happy when they engage in the production of (their own and the common) well-being .

Happiness is an action, flow

Achieving happiness requires time and action

People can be happy about about something or happy in action

When people are happy about something they compare to others

When people are happy in action they share happiness with others

Here we get a formula for the future

CO 2 = FUTURE

A Happy Society is Co-Created, Made by Us All

It is not about technology It is not about politics It is about how we conceive and produce technology and politics

New Industrial Revolution

from centralised to distributed Production

from specialised to shared Division of labour

Distributed and shared Food Energy Goods Services Homes

My Farm: San Francisco

Velib: Paris

RechargeIT: Google

DIY Planet Repairs: London

50-70's I need wellfare state

80-90's I want consumer society, individualims

2000's I can knowledge-based society

2010's We can peer-to-peer society

“ We-Can” aikakausi

“ I call it the politics of "I can". It represents a desire for people to not just have access to material goods, but greater power, control and choice over all aspects of their life, from the jobs they do, the relationships they enter, the services they use, the products they buy. [...] It is an age where people want to be players not just spectators . [...] ‘ Web 2.0 allows the spirit of “I can” to transcend the limits of consumerism, and become a mass movement for cooperation . “ David Miliband: “We can -politics”

Structures for We can Structures for co-creation