The A New Normal exhibition has presented designs that aim to transform Sydney into a self-sufficient city, including a pub making beer from recycled wastewater.
On show at the Powerhouse Museum in partnership with the annual Vivid Sydney festival, A New Normal included an exhibition and a solar-powered pavilion that served as a community meeting place.
More than fifty designers, architects, developers, technologists, brands and architects from Sydney were invited to come up with new solutions to solve some of the Australian city's most persistent challenges.
The exhibition presents concepts to address Sydney's energy and climate challenges
The resulting concepts aim to provide solutions that could transform Sydney from a consumer of water, energy and other commodities to a self-sufficient producer of the same resources within 10 years. The project was led by the Sydney director of eco research lab Finding Infinity, Jess Miller.
It paired creative studios with developers to come up with concepts that address specific issues and could pay for themselves within ten years with minimal policy reform.
The Last Pub on Earth imagines a Mad Max-like world. The image is courtesy of Heaps Normal, Sydney Water and Callum Preston
Among them was The Last Pub on Earth, a collaboration between non-alcoholic beer company Heaps Normal, Sydney Water and artist Callum Preston, which imagined a Mad Max-like world where water becomes an extremely scarce resource.
The pub would offer a non-alcoh...