In this animation, these units are shown as floating to different areas of sub-Saharan Africa, but perhaps they are carried by cranes, or along paths.
11.10.2006
megaHEALTH
Archigram, in the Plug-In City (see this post for some more analysis), proposes a series of units - rooms, energy, supplies, etc. - that are stored in silos and transported and "plugged" into other silos by way of trains, moving along tracks. I propose, now, that we view healthcare in this way - by making the transportation of these drugs from GSK manufacturing plants more efficient to the populations that need them, and the ability to transport hospital rooms to areas that can treat AIDS patients perhaps could help to break up the AIDS megaContinent and spread treatment into remote areas.
In this animation, these units are shown as floating to different areas of sub-Saharan Africa, but perhaps they are carried by cranes, or along paths.
In this animation, these units are shown as floating to different areas of sub-Saharan Africa, but perhaps they are carried by cranes, or along paths.
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can you show some wide angle perspectives of these landscapes so we can occupy them. the wierd perspective isn't very spatial
6. These landscapes are a bit tough to understand. I think they have something to do with population? (maybe this is the populations desity map that I was looking for before?)
7. I think your idea of infecting the underserved land with a series of dispersed "silos" and creating a network for shipping ingredients in and medicine out is a possiblity. You also should think about perhaps a central MSK megopolis, or maybe a small number of these - you can identify appropriate locations based on your mappings. You should look at companies like FED EX - they use Spoke-hub distribution paradigms to very effectively move the goods. So if you are in Central, SC and you want to send a package to Clemson, SC it will go to the FED EX hub in Memphis to be sorted and shipped back out instead of going from point A to B. Complicated operations can be consolidated at the hub, rather than maintained separately at each node. Also, customers find the network to be simpler and more intuitive. So, on that note, a complex moving network might not be more effective than a mega health archipeligo.
VA
8. another emerging trend in the health care industry is for patients from nations such as the USA and Europe to travel to countries where healthcare is not as expensive to receive reduced cost treatment and medication. So not only do you have a population that needs to have medications sent to them you have an emerging population that is traveling to a new location to get medicine / treatment they can afford.
9. you could also overlay your aids mapping onto a map of population age (in addition to the ones I mentioned earlier...) Again, the information that you lay over your mappings could be key. If you lay maps of highways, green spaces, zoning maps, buildings, etc. of places over your "super continent" , just like your are laying archigrams drawings over it - you might discover not only structure but infrastructure, gardens, airports, etc. in your new MSK continent.
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