Where We'll Live in the Future

A white plastic house of rounded shells raised on a single pedestal, among autumn trees. I published the House board this week with four hundred and eight images and one apt quote from Le Corbusier: “A house is a machine for living in.” Like Garment before it, the board doesn’t explain itself. That’s by design — it’s a thing to be looked at and thought about. What follows here are the notes on the back of the sleeve: what I was looking for; what the images turned out to have in common; the stories behind a few of them. The Unprinted Rubric House is the second board in a series I’ve been thinking of as “what we’ll … in the future.” Garment was the first; food, getting around, and work are still to come. The concept for this one is where we’ll live in the future, which sounded simple to me until I started doing the research. I had actually started dropping images into the folder long before I’d decided what the board was for, so the first real edit was a matter of throwing out houses…

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