UnitedCities Film

Eco-sci-fi feature film · Year 2200. Competing in @XPRIZE's Future Vision Prize 🏆. 14 years in development.
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[UnitedCities Film @UnitedCitiesUC]

Every flood plan we have rests on one quiet assumption: human life must be continuous, and it must be dry.

Walls fight the water. Retreat runs from it. Floating homes dodge it.

In UnitedCities, our solarpunk saga set in 2200, cities do something else. They go under.

[Existential Hope @HopeExistential]

There aren’t many films that show a hopeful version of a climate-changed world. @UnitedCitiesUC is a great exception.

It’s set 20 years after a great flood that has dramatically changed the map of the Earth and made old nations disappear. Now independent cities work together instead, and people have learned to live as part of nature.

Director @Cpousada and 20+ designers, writers, engineers, economists, and lawyers have spent 14 years building this world. You can explore it at the link in the reply.

[UnitedCities Film @UnitedCitiesUC]

@HopeExistential Thank you, @HopeExistential, for sharing UnitedCities and inviting people to explore our world. Imagining a climate-changed future worth living in is why 20+ of us spent 14 years building it. Glad to be part of the hopeful-futures conversation.

[UnitedCities Film @UnitedCitiesUC]

For centuries we've fought nature. Frog cities flow with it.

Today we build ducks. We could build frogs.

The full essay, with sources: https://t.co/7brBQ89Wn1

@HopeExistential #xhopememeprize

[UnitedCities Film @UnitedCitiesUC]

Every flood plan we have rests on one quiet assumption: human life must be continuous, and it must be dry.

Walls fight the water. Retreat runs from it. Floating homes dodge it.

In UnitedCities, our solarpunk saga set in 2200, cities do something else. They go under.

[UnitedCities Film @UnitedCitiesUC]

The water is the example, not the argument.

A system that can only exist one way is fragile, however strong that way is. A levee holds until the day it doesn't.

What makes a civilization hard to kill isn't the height of its walls. It's how many ways it has to stay itself.

[UnitedCities Film @UnitedCitiesUC]

@mbauwens Thanks Michel

[Michel Bauwens @mbauwens]

I'm getting more and more emails announcing p2p/commons inspired fiction. I think this is a good sign:

via Claudio Pousada, director of SinergiaLab (Buenos Aires, Argentina):

(https://t.co/J4FKgHHnei)

UnitedCities is a solarpunk science fiction saga set in the year 2200, developed for more than a decade, with its own feature film script, trailer and art books.

I'm writing because your work on the commons, and on energy as a commons in particular, touches one of the pillars of UnitedCities: a world where artificial scarcity is dissolved and energy stops being a lever of control. We believe science fiction is a laboratory of ideas: it lets us imagine that world with its tensions in view, and many such ideas end up being implemented. I'd love to hear how the commons movement sees it from practice.

If this resonates, I'd be glad to continue the conversation by email and share more of the material.
Here are some links and readings:

The UnitedCities Manifesto:
https://t.co/gk1kpDszDc

[UnitedCities Film @UnitedCitiesUC]

Una casa que flota cuando sube el agua es como un pato.
En UnitedCities las ciudades somo como ranas, sellan sus compuertas, pasan meses sumergidas y emergen.
¡Maravilloso!
https://t.co/5DrEnoMSeK

https://t.co/Qvdpky7wXo

#UnitedCitiesFilm #InteligenciaNatural

[UnitedCities Film @UnitedCitiesUC]

Vivimos dentro de una pila del tamaño del mundo, y los rayos la recargan sola. Tesla encontró el camino; UnitedCities imagina la energía sin dueño.

Leelo acá
https://t.co/6XNpOlFyRH

Trailer
https://t.co/Qvdpky6Z7Q
#UnitedCitiesFilm #ScienceFiction #Futurism #ClimateOptimism

[UnitedCities Film @UnitedCitiesUC]

¿Una tonelada de auto para trasladar 70 kilos de persona? En UC cada vehículo tiene los módulos que necesita
Leelo:
https://t.co/EXdcA0lgR9

Trailer:
https://t.co/Qvdpky6Z7Q
#UnitedCitiesFilm #Solarpunk #ConceptArt #Worldbuilding

[UnitedCities Film @UnitedCitiesUC]

UC parte de algo simple: nunca hubo separación entre humano y naturaleza.
Bio-pertenencia, democracia global y energía libre: sus tres pilares.

Leelo
https://t.co/semYq3rDgt

Trailer
https://t.co/Qvdpky6Z7Q
#UnitedCitiesFilm #Worldbuilding #Solarpunk #InteligenciaNatural

[UnitedCities Film @UnitedCitiesUC]

¿Y si la energía no tuviera dueño?

En UnitedCities, los Transconversores devuelven energía limpia e ilimitada a la humanidad, basados en planos recuperados de Tesla.

La nota: https://t.co/PjcXkLxOuM

Tráiler:
https://t.co/Qvdpky6Z7Q

#UnitedCitiesFilm #InteligenciaNatural

[UnitedCities Film @UnitedCitiesUC]

En 2011 imaginamos UnitedCities: ciudades que crecen con la naturaleza, energía libre, sin jerarquías de escasez. No sabíamos que eso ya tenía nombre.

La historia: https://t.co/KUMaMxognQ

El tráiler:
https://t.co/Qvdpky6Z7Q #UnitedCitiesFilm #InteligenciaNatural

[UnitedCities Film @UnitedCitiesUC]

Solarpunk no es solo una estética: es una idea. Tecnología que crece con la naturaleza, no la domina. Eso es UnitedCities.

Leelo: https://t.co/rJ4tiLdq9x

Mira el tráiler:
https://t.co/Qvdpky6Z7Q #UnitedCitiesFilm #InteligenciaNatural