architecture – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Wed, 14 Jul 2021 02:47:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 A Visionary Home for the 2020s https://lifeboat.com/blog/2021/07/a-visionary-home-for-the-2020s Wed, 14 Jul 2021 02:47:29 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=124912 This article is an excerpt from a report by Partners in Foresight, The Home of the 2020s: Scenarios for How We Might Live in the Post-Pandemic Future.

The homes we inhabit in the 2020s could serve as a personal headquarters for building the good society. How can a house help create a more positive future? Here are four ways the home of the future might support meaningful personal commitment to the greater good.

1. Advocate From Home (AFH)

During the pandemic lockdown period, a new wave of civic engagement has taken hold. A trend called Advocate From Home (AFH) takes the form of digital organizing (e-mail, text banking, content production) for political, ecological, social and economic justice, often using work-from-home tools.

2. Decentralized Energy

Households are embracing renewables in terms of solar energy and decentralized systems with independent home batteries. There are revolutions happening in the world of clean kinetic energy that could transform our spaces by allowing objects to collect and then transmit power. Future homes may be self-sustaining in terms of power and energy needs.

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