tutorial response - week 7

BRIEF – A PLACE FOR BEING, NOT DOING

Located within the Moreton Bay Shire, Woodfordia is situated west of the coast in the state of Queensland, Australia.  As Woodfordia plans for future developments within a hectic and volatile global crisis, Woodfordia plans to create an alternative self-sustainable community for citizens determined to self-actuate themselves.

The backbone of Woodfordia has been the continuation of utilizing their site to hold infrequent Festivals each year.  Woodfordia, envisions a future where their site can be further developed to encourage a community to flourish and respect their 500 year plan.  Keeping inline with this 500 year plan, it is proposed that Woodfordia will integrate their Festival life with a new community life.  A community that is driven by a vision; ‘to work with the land and not on it.’  Woodfordia will nurture a developing self-sustainable community and also offer a transitional place where people are welcome to visit and stay to acquire and gain the skills to promote Woodfordia’s vision throughout the world. 

Woodfordia will become an incubator, a nucleus, and a place of integration. The Think Farm will give rise to a model where cooperation between public agencies, private companies, individuals, institutions and communities, sharing a common environmental ambition and sharing spaces.  The Think Farm will create spaces where technologies and nature merge to create an integrated space between our original and evolving environments.  The THINK FARM will become an instrument to offer an open forum where physical and digital interaction can take place to harness the power of many to offer solutions to pressing issues we face today and in tomorrows future.  Woodfordia will become a petri dish to explore, develop and offer possible solutions for a sustainable local and global world.