AZ Awards 2021 Finalist: Water Miner - Johannesburg 2050 - AZ Awards

AZ Awards 2021 Finalist: Water Miner – Johannesburg 2050

Water Miner imagines a future Johannesburg in which climate catastrophe forces citizens to live in the gold mines beneath the city.

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Team: Mingyang Sun and Fangyuan Sheng
School: University of Pennsylvania (Instructor: Christopher Marcinkoski)
Category: A+ Award for Student Work

Water Miner imagines a future Johannesburg in which climate catastrophe forces citizens to live in the gold mines beneath the city. Part architectural rendering, part graphic novel, the work tells a dystopian story with a utopian turn.

Joburg’s residents build subterranean smart homes and 3D printers to provide them with food. They regreen the city from the ground up, harvesting climate-adaptive crops, and transform the downtown high-rises into research centres and water-monitoring stations. In time, catastrophe becomes a force for renewal.

AZ Awards 2021 Finalist: Water Miner – Johannesburg 2050

Water Miner imagines a future Johannesburg in which climate catastrophe forces citizens to live in the gold mines beneath the city.

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Team: Mingyang Sun and Fangyuan Sheng
School: University of Pennsylvania (Instructor: Christopher Marcinkoski)
Category: A+ Award for Student Work

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Location	Johannesburg, South Africa
Team	Mingyang Sun and Fangyuan Sheng
School	University of Pennsylvania (Instructor: Christopher Marcinkoski)
Category	A+ Award for Student Work