Problem
Formed during the Ice Age, the landscape of the Berlin-Brandenburg region is predominantly water-scarce, a fact that places immense ecosystem pressure on this land/waterscape.
The new Tesla Gigafactory in Berlin-Brandenburg aims to produce 20.000 electric cars per month, consuming fourteen-million cubic centimetres of water a year. With the Tesla Gigafactory exacerbating water scarcity in this region, our goal is to guide an optimistic speculation on the future of the drought-prone Berlin-Brandenburg through our design practices
Live Action Role Play
Using Solarpunk, a speculative sci-fi activist movement, we create space to imagine what a sustainable civilization looks like and how to achieve it. By working backwards from a utopian future, we can open up a space for dialogue and discussion and observe and analyse the issue of water scarcity from different perspectives today.
Through interviews with FKK participants and water crisis activists against the Tesla gigafactory, alongside field research in Müggelsee, we were able to design a Live Action Role Play game and a video.
The game Hydrotopia 2050 researches the complex matter of water distribution by creating an archive of reflection, embracing a future, hypothetical sense of hope and optimism around the conquered water crisis of 2023.
