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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.

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2016
WinnerA+ Award for Student Work
Student
Jurgis Gecys, Austria
School
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
2015
Award of MeritA+ Award for Student Work
Designer
Anthony Ko, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK
2019
Award of MeritA+ Award for Student Work
School
Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Canada
Team
Roya Aghighi with Frank Ko and Addie Bahi of AMPEL UBC and Sunjoo Joo and Jae-Hyeok Lee of Botany Lab UBC