10 prompts were created in a google doc so that as individuals we could add our thoughts and stories and create 10 rich stories.
Here are the stories as they currently are:
1: ‘Everyone Look at the Moon’
People are talking about sending people to Mars, but does that mean we get a ‘free pass’ to live unsustainably here, because humanity can relocate? Would you move to Mars, even if you knew it was a one-way ticket?
Sometimes the moon is there in the day. That's what blows my mind.
What is this big urge governments have to explore space? Just let it be. Its there, its got planets in it… what more could there be. Unless we're on doctor who of course.
It would just take way too long to transform Mars into a functioning ‘Earth-like’ planet. Earth would be well and truly destroyed by then, we’d have no choice other than to move everyone to Mars. Although, hopefully that would serve as an example of what not to do to your planet.
It’s a funny question regarding the one way ticket. Yeah you would be one of the first people on Mars, but you wouldn’t be able to tell the stories to your friends and family at home. That’s the thing in all adventures, having the ability to be able to share it once you have returned.
Humanity could have Mars functioning in no time… just look at Matt Damon, didn’t seem that difficult.
Would Skype work on Mars?
Inter-planet wi-fi ??? Genius. Then it could expand to galaxies and we can talk to aliens in other solar systems or even another dimension where we can talk to our alternate selves!
Mind. Blown.
What if we already can talk to aliens on other planets…. Dun dun
Sometimes me and E.T skype from Mars, I sometimes see his finger from Earth, it’s the brightest star in the sky. I saw it moving just the other night.. Or maybe it was a plane..
Technology is advancing so rapidly that life on Mars will soon be possible, but why stop there? How about we inhabit and destroy all the other planets as well seeing as we’re killing Earth… or we could just leave the other planets be, what have they ever done to us????
What scares me is the fact that we know more about space then we do about our oceans.
I always wonder if time passes by differently on planets in other solar systems?
2: ‘I ate an entire camembert’
What happened next?
It wouldn’t kill you. Not unless you're seriously lactose intolerant or it was poisoned. Maybe you realise your passion is cheese and you move to bulgaria or france or wherever the best cheese making is to become an epic famous cheese maker. The world is your oyster…. or your cheese.
The absolute best way to eat an entire wheel of camembert is when you put it in an oven and melt it a bit so that you can dip little crackers or those cool little bagel bite things in it. It’s amazing, you should definitely try it. That’s what happens next, you eat another one but this time you put it in the oven and go to heaven.
The next morning, however, I was ashamed. “What have I done??” I thought to myself. I couldn’t bare myself to look in the mirror.. At the foil packet and remnants that were left.
I think in Switzerland if you don’t eat cheese at least once a day, your passport gets revoked.
If it’s a decent one from Moore Wilsons or France that’s ok. If its a crappy Mainland one, I think you deserve to feel guilty, at least.
3. The Sustainability Jekyll & Hyde
They pretend to be really green and guilt trip us about it. Like the vegan you secretly believe scoffs burgers on the sly… Who is this person, what do they do?
My friend has a crazy vegan sister so she told her sister she was vegan too even though she always ate McDonalds when she was drunk. One time she was so ravenous for some meat she ate raw bacon. This was the same friend who drunkenly vomited into her handbag on the bus.
She believes that the way we produce meat is morally wrong, and that the dairy industry is killing the world.. But she just can’t resist the sweet taste of bacon. Or steak, or eggs! Who could live without eggs or cheese? I know I couldn’t. Her sister, known to her friends as ‘Sunflower,’ keeps cheeseburgers in her room in secret.. For when she feels like a midnight snack after binge drinking in town.
Sunflower’s real name is Sally. She is a Greenpeace volunteer and has just arrived off a voyage on the Rainbow Warrior, protesting against the exploitation of mermaids and whale hunting. She begins her day at the call centre and then into the night, trying persuade students to donate their time and money to helping their cause just before they’re about to have dinner. I mean, at least she’s not a door-knocker.. But her darkest secret lies with the fact that, (although she pretends to be clean and green) instead of recycling her materials, she throws everything into the trash without a care!!
Her main undeclared ambition in life is to own a V8. Not the vegetable juice, a car.
The absolute worst is when you get them coming up to you on the street. I try to avoid eye contact but their eyes burn holes into my brain until I’m stood next to them, signing the latest petition and getting subscribed to their mailing list.
4. The Jekyll & Hyde Story
Jekyll splits himself because he can’t live with his contradictions. Does anyone have an experience that they aren’t proud of, worthy of inventing a whole new person to avoid?
I have a drunk personality that I wish I could bury.. One night, I had a bottle of chardonnay for dinner and was getting pretty happy, so I had a trumpet ice cream for dessert and then was starting to feel it. I could feel the ice cream churning in my stomach as I stood up walking toward the double doors and started power vomiting down the hallway. I began vomiting into my hand to try and catch it but it overflowed, then continued to vomit into the toilet and on the floor, then that clogged the toilet and I had to try unclog it. I made my way back through spew trail, cleaned the door and then after cleaning I went into the shower and had a shower in my clothes and began to cry. After cleaning myself up I went upstairs, got dressed and then went into town. I would split myself in two and stay the ‘responsible’ me so that I could avoid the ‘out-of-control’ me.What Have I done?
I did something i regret or maybe it was the best thing i’ve ever done.
It was an awful night
But i loved it.
I hate myself.
I want to do it again.
Who am I?, Why am I here?,
Do you think there is one drunk personality that we all kind of share?
5. Getting Wasted
If you could use any waste material to construct a building, what would you use, and what would it be?
I’d make it out of stationery waste, I feel like there is a lot of waste in the everyday use of office things. Like all those little paper circles that get hole punched out or when you try to staple a reading but it’s waaaaay too big and the staple just squashes. There’s probably so much paper that gets wasted, stacks of paper are strong too. If you got enough you could probably build a pretty sweet little house out of it. Oh wait, it would get pretty soggy in the rain... it could just be used for interior walls I guess? Actually, what if it was repurposed into furniture or something and put back into the office it came from?
Pallets would make an awesome treehouse! Or the material waste/offcuts and fibres offcuts from fashion garments could be broken down and mixed with stronger materials.
Polystyrene to make napalm?
Off cuts and left over fabric to create a fabric fort or tent structure.
Could you grow a building on waste food?
If it’s actual food - wouldn’t it rot and make one massive compost pile? Plus not to mention the smell if you were inside it!
6. Climate Crisis
Climate predictions for the Wellington Region
I often think about if a tsunami hit Wellington…. What would you do? Run up Mt. Victoria?
The wind is going to hit new record highs up to 260 knots per hour and blow roofs off houses, sweep people into trees and create a twister.
Hailstorms with hailstones the size of tennis balls. There will be rain and flooding, the airport will all be flushed away.. And Miramar peninsula will become Miramar island. There’s a sign that asks ‘is the Miramar Peninsula possum free?’. It sure would be if we have a tsunami!
Our country is smack bang on the ring of fire - earthquakes are a given, ripping the country in half.
That one time a few years ago when we all thought that Wellington was going to be hit by a Tsunami, me and my mate were playing monopoly at mine when the warnings went off and tv reporters were telling everyone close to the water to evacuate to higher ground. We ended up in Wainui at her house eating toasted sandwiches until the tsunami was no longer a threat. The funny part was that we went back at my place continuing our monopoly game after all that.
Could we build an arc like in the movie 2012???
Build a massive platform that the new wellington would be built on, water goes underneath, platform would be earthquake proof.
7. Juliet and the Rekindle Story (team 7 are doing option 9)
Craft a short narrative about Juliet Arnott. This will help: http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/shake-up-juliet-arnott-from-rekindle
Lucy Smith is an intern for RNZ who in her spare time thinks about how to be a better intern. The last time she had to write a bio was for Bebo.
Rekindle is a social enterprise that enables diversion of reusable resources from waste via creativity and craftsmanship. Seeing waste as resources full of latent creative opportunity fuels our work. We have initially focused on diverting timber from waste within residential demolition in Christchurch, turning this into furniture, interiors, sculpture and jewelery.
We are now working in Christchurch and Auckland to expand our model beyond timber into other materials. We see design as the tool that unlocks the qualities of resources undervalued when seen as waste. We aim to grow our capacity to support communities to utilise their waste fully and in doing so, maximize the benefits of the purposeful work involved. As a social enterprise the majority of profits are dedicated to furthering development of this work.
8. Christchurch Festival of Transitional Architecture
Urban and social renewal is a continuous process requiring the on-going personal, social, financial and political investment of a diversity of actors and agencies. Rather than viewing the earthquake rebuild as a discrete and closed project (as it is often presented) the Festival of transitional Architecture are instead interested in disaster as an extraordinary event within an ongoing process of urban development, one that teaches unique and critical lessons.
What are your critical lessons for Christchurch? What are your wishes for a sustainable city? These can be as fanciful as you like…
A city built for people, not for cars.
A city with no adverts anywhere, just art and useful information
A city that lives up to the name “Garden City”
Lesson One: We can’t control natural disasters.
Lesson Two: We can learn from them.
Create a city that is prepared for anything.
Re educating ourselves and acknowledging past mistakes/ disregards in urban Infrastructure planning and design.
Deriving design plans from a community and environmentally informed base
Finding
9. The coaches are in the harbour and the city is in the sky…
What’s the story?
It’s the year 3016 and coaches have developed artificial intelligence and claimed the seas for their kind. The city as we know it had to be raised into the sky to keep the last of the Wellingtonians safe.
Wellington is pretty windy as it is down on the ground, imagine being in the sky being hit full force by 200km/hr gusts of wind - would everyone be blown off the city in the sky?
It reminds me of Jack and the beanstalks. Except the Wellingtonians aren’t giants and the ground isn’t safe. And there are no beans. Or stalks.
Is it just Wellington that’s been raised up into the sky? Are there other sky cities? Sky people?
10. The Wildcard (this one’s free)
This one’s up to you!
This one time, late at night, up on level E...
The dance party/ping pong tournament was getting way out of hand and the 100 person strong crowd were cutting shapes so hard that the building started to shake so violently that there was a power cut and all the automatic windows and doors closed and locked everyone inside. Suddenly…
Due to the violent shake created by all those ping pong masters, they began to think about what they just did, well, because they were trapped inside and had run out of pizza, what else is there to do? This caused them to develop their methods of pingpong. They thought of a new version of ping pong called…
Ping Pong Parkour! The multiplayer, free-running game where you can ricochet the ball on any surface back to the other player. In this case, it was indoor parkour.
This new invention had to be shared. So, everyone there whipped out their iphone’s cause let's be honest iphone’s are the best. From there, it led them to make a facebook club which MAWSA quickly funded after seeing it had one hundred like’s.
It was now ready for a bigger….
better level of competition!! We all decide to settle this through 1 last friendly game of PPP (Ping Pong Parkour). Just as we were ready, the lights started to flicker on and off.. the annoying automatic windows fling wide open and gusts of wind are howling in the background.
Unable to hold strong onto my manhood I sprint up the stairs for the door.. After the first few steps I began to regret the amount of $5 Beef and Onion pizza's I’ve been consuming for the past couple weeks.. The doors are locked.. But wait.. I can hear something.. Its getting closer.. It almost sounds like a ping pong ball bounce...
