The term Peak Oil refers to the maximum rate of production of oil in area under consideration, recognizing that it is a finite natural resource, subject to depletion. … A debate rages over the precise date of peak, but rather misses the point, when what matters – and matters greatly – is the vision of the long remorseless decline that comes into sight on the other side of it. The transition to decline threatens to be a time of great international tension.
Colin Campbell, ASPO, www.peakoil.net
The rate at which we are consuming fossil fuels is greater than the rate in which sources are being discovered. How do we prioritise how we use the resources available to us? What skills can designers and architects bring to addressing this question?
What technology should we choose to employ, and what design approaches can we use to enable a transition forward into a functional and culturally exciting society, with less cheap energy available? We are in a period of transition. We need many ways of visualising and making real the idea of ‘contemporary culture, within our means, within the means of the earth’.
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